02 area code: North-west France (+33 2)

The range at a glance

ARCEP's plan names this zone for the first digit after the 0 of metropolitan France's fixed numbers. Since 1 January 2023 a 01 to 05 number may be used anywhere in metropolitan France, so the zone is where the range was allocated, not where a number's subscriber is. The name is the regulator’s own, from ARCEP decision 2019-0954 of 11 July 2019 on the national numbering plan, annex, section 2.3.3 b (read on 2026-09-26): the numbering metadata that names the place on other pages does not give it.

Blocks in the regulator's table

The blocks differ in size; most are 5-digit prefixes of the national number. A number in an allocated block is assignable; in an unassigned block no carrier can have a subscriber, so the lookup answers unassigned_block for it, except a number in a range reserved for fiction (is_fictional), which answers valid even where the regulator lists its block as protected. The numbering plan types these numbers itself (fixed_line), not the holders' names. 10.2% of the allocated blocks belong to a virtual-number wholesaler or VoIP provider.

Who the blocks were allocated to

The holders as the regulator lists them, by the numbers their allocated blocks cover. The table’s blocks differ in size and every number here has 9 digits after the calling code, so a block written with one digit fewer covers ten times as many numbers; the shares count numbers, not blocks. Allocation is not service: a ported number keeps its original block, so a holder here may no longer serve a given number. The last row adds up every other allocated block in the table: the smaller holders and any holder this page does not name.

What each network brand’s legal entities hold across the whole table, counted in numbers: Orange, SFR, Free, Bouygues Telecom.

How to read this page

Everything above comes from two public sources: the numbering metadata, which names the zones and the line types of the range and, outside North America, its place; and the regulator's allocation table, which lists each block's status and holder and, in North America, the rate centres the place is named from. Here the place is the regulator’s own name for the zone, cited above. Neither knows who serves a number today, whether a handset is switched on, or who owns or answers it. Spaw reports what the tables say and names the dataset and version behind every answer.

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arcep-numbering 2026-09-25 · data synced on 2026-09-25 · about the regulator’s table