A community reply marked as the solution reports that assigning a number from a different country than the user's usage location works only with Direct Routing, and that Operator Connect and Calling Plans require the usage location to match the number.

field report · Checked 2026-09-30

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Microsoft Teams Phone
Subsystem
number assignment prerequisites
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
as reported January 2024
Status
field report
Checked
2026-09-30

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 30). Troubleshooting Teams phone number assignment errors: source note teams-number-assignment-errors-fp-cross-country-dr. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-number-assignment-errors-fp-cross-country-dr

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-teams-number-assignment-errors-fp-cross-country-dr,
  title  = {Troubleshooting Teams phone number assignment errors: source note teams-number-assignment-errors-fp-cross-country-dr},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-number-assignment-errors-fp-cross-country-dr},
  note   = {Source note teams-number-assignment-errors-fp-cross-country-dr, checked 2026-09-30}
}

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