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The ''' | The '''Phone Number Prefix Normative''' (in Spanish: Norma de Prefijos Telefónicos), also known as the "''anti-spam law''" is a modification of the Chilean Telecommunications Subsecretary Exempt N° 1319. The modification was announced by the Chilean government in March 2025<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=SUBTEL |date=20 March 2025 |title=Gobierno anuncia implementación de numeración especial para la identificación de llamadas comerciales |trans-title=Government announces the implementation of special numeration for identifying commercial calls |url=https://www.subtel.gob.cl/gobierno-anuncia-implementacion-de-numeracion-especial-para-la-identificacion-de-llamadas-comerciales/ |url-status=live |access-date=25 Feb 2026 |website=Subtel}}</ref> and has been taking effect since August 13, 2025. The purpose of this law is to mandate commercial phone numbers to add fixed number prefixes to be easily identified by Chilean consumers and to prevent scams and malicious phone calls disguised as commercial calls. <ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Defensa y Justicia |date=14 Aug 2025 |title=Chile estrena prefijos 600 y 809: así cambian las llamadas comerciales (y cómo evitar estafas) |trans-title=Chile releases 600 and 809 prefixes: this is how commercial calls change (and how to avoid scams) |url=https://defensayjusticia.cl/ley-antispam-600-809-chile-2025/ |url-status=live |access-date=25 Feb 2026 |website=Defensa y Justicia Abogados}}</ref> | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
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Also, researches and reports by [[wikipedia:Hiya_(company)|Hiya]] done in 2024 stated that in Chile, a person receives an average of 28 spam calls per month, being a number that shares with Brazil, also being the highest number in Latin America. The research also stated a 25% of these calls belonged to fraudulent phone calls. The same research done in 2023 showed the average quantity of spam calls per month was 20. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Vega |first=Fernando |date=7 Apr 2025 |title=Llamadas Spam: estudio muestra cuántas recibe cada chileno al mes |trans-title=Spam Calls: research shows how many receives every Chilean per month |url=https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/llamadas-spam-estudio-muestra-cuantas-recibe-cada-chileno-al-mes/ |url-status=live |access-date=24 Feb 2026 |website=La Tercera}}</ref> | Also, researches and reports by [[wikipedia:Hiya_(company)|Hiya]] done in 2024 stated that in Chile, a person receives an average of 28 spam calls per month, being a number that shares with Brazil, also being the highest number in Latin America. The research also stated a 25% of these calls belonged to fraudulent phone calls. The same research done in 2023 showed the average quantity of spam calls per month was 20. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Vega |first=Fernando |date=7 Apr 2025 |title=Llamadas Spam: estudio muestra cuántas recibe cada chileno al mes |trans-title=Spam Calls: research shows how many receives every Chilean per month |url=https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/llamadas-spam-estudio-muestra-cuantas-recibe-cada-chileno-al-mes/ |url-status=live |access-date=24 Feb 2026 |website=La Tercera}}</ref> | ||
== | ==Exempt modification and effects== | ||
[[File:Prefixescl.png|thumb|An official Image from the Chilean Government and Subtel, showing a brief explanation of the norm]] | [[File:Prefixescl.png|thumb|An official Image from the Chilean Government and Subtel, showing a brief explanation of the norm]] | ||
All phone numbers that belong to telecommunications companies that do commercial or massive phone calls are forced to add a prefix to their numbers in order to be recognizable: | All phone numbers that belong to telecommunications companies that do commercial or massive phone calls are forced to add a prefix to their numbers in order to be recognizable: | ||