Kosovo Buzzes as New Country Code Hits Messaging App
People in Kosovo reacted enthusiastically as instant messaging and internet call service Viber became the first telecommunications application to use Kosovo’s own international dialing code. Photo: BIRN. There was an enthusiastic reaction on social media after Viber users in Kosovo were notified on Monday evening that numbers on their phone list were being changed to show the country's new dialling code, +383. “Calls and messages in the direction of Kosovo can now be received by +383 from almost the entire world,” the director of the Regulatory Authority of Electronic and Postal Communications in Kosovo, ARKEP, Kreshnik Gashi, wrote on Facebook. Photo: Kallxo.com Kosovo’s former foreign minister Petrit Selimi hailed the development. “Few days before #Kosovo celebrates 10th Anniversary of Independence, Kosovars are finally able to use a new phone dialling number +383,” Selimi wrote on Twitter. “Everyone’s phones are buzzing with notifications of new n...