The telephone services are being provided by the Maharashtra Telecom Circle, which is a branch of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited.
However, in the capital city of
Mumbai the service is being provided by the MTNL.
There are a total number of 4. 913 telephone exchanges with 2, 75,533 number of mobile phone subscribers.
The major cities of Maharashtra are Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Solapur, Aurangabad, Mahabaleshwar, Ratnagiri, Sangli, Chandrapur, Jalgaon and Thane.
The STD codes are as follows:
Mumbai: 022
Pune: 020
Nagpur: 0712
Solapur: 0217
Amravati: 07220, 07226 are the codes which occur for the maximum number of times
Aurangabad: 0240
Mahabaleshwar: 02168
Ratnagiri: 02352
Sangli: 0233
Chandrapur: 07172
Jalgaon: 0257
Thane: 022
Kolhapur: 0231
