The sixty-second orientation
1300 Number AU: What You Are Looking At
"1300 number AU" means one thing: an Australian inbound number that gives your business a single national identifier. Calls route to any phone you answer, callers pay a local-style rate, and the whole setup costs from $10 a month. Here is the orientation in full.
- One number, all of Australia
- From $10 a month
- No hardware anywhere
Orientation questions
What does the AU in 1300 number AU mean?
Simply that the number is Australian: 1300 is a service prefix in Australia's numbering plan, issued for inbound business use and reachable from every Australian state and territory. It is not diallable from overseas networks.
Who pays for a 1300 call?
Both sides, by design. The caller pays a local-call-style rate from a fixed line — carrier and plan set the mobile rate — and the business pays for the call it receives under its plan, billed per second.
How fast can one be connected?
A number drawn from the availability pool connects once the plan is in place; routing is configuration, not construction. An existing number from another carrier can usually be ported instead of replaced.
A search for "1300 number AU" is usually someone one step from buying — you know the number format, you know it is Australian, and you want the rest confirmed quickly. So here is the orientation, unstacked: what the number is, what it costs both sides, what it does behind the scenes, and the two tools that finish the job.
What a 1300 number is
One national identifier for your business: the prefix 1300 plus six digits, reachable from every Australian state and territory with no area code, and owned by no geography. Callers are not dialling a line in your office — they are dialling a service that routes to wherever you answer: a mobile, a landline, a team. That virtualness is the entire value: relocate, grow or restructure, and the number in your advertising never changes. The mechanics are in how 1300 numbers work.
What it costs
Two sides, both knowable:
- Caller side — a local-call-style rate from a standard fixed line; from mobiles, the rate depends on the caller's carrier and plan. Not free — that is the 1800 format's job.
- Owner side — the plan, from $10 a month, plus per-call charges billed per second against per-minute rates. Optional add-ons — call tracking, IVR menus, recording — price separately on the pricing page.
The full owner-side picture, including what drives call charges, is on the 1300 numbers product page, with pricing detail in 1300 number cost and pricing in Australia.
What it does behind the scenes
Routing is where the number earns its keep: time-based rules for after-hours, overflow for spikes, round-robin across a team, location-based for multi-office setups. Reporting logs every call per number, and features such as voicemail-to-email and call recording ride on the plan. Choosing between 1300 and the free-to-caller 1800 format is a one-page decision our comparison pages cover.
The two tools that finish the job
The search: the live pool of available 1300 numbers, free to run, with lease prices where they apply — available numbers. The port: if you already hold a 1300 number with another carrier, bring it with you rather than replacing it; the steps are in how to get a 1300 number. Either tool ends at the same place — one number, all of Australia, from $10 a month.
Pick your number
Search the live Australian pool
Standard 1300 patterns from $10 a month, phonewords by lease — free to search, no account needed.