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’08’ Special rate numbers

UK telephone numbers starting with ’07’ are used for mobile devices and personal redirect numbers. They are usually more expensive to call than the ’01’, ’02’ and ’03’ numbers. What are ’08’ numbers? UK telephone numbers that start with ’08’ are used by many different organisations. They are commonly used for chargeable information lines and… Continue reading ’08’ Special rate numbers

‘070’ – Personal Redirect Numbers

What are personal redirect numbers UK telephone numbers beginning with ‘070’ are known as ‘personal redirect’ or ‘follow me’ numbers and they allow the customer to give out a single phone number, then redirect their incoming calls to different locations as and when they choose. For example, a maintenance company might publish an ‘070’ number… Continue reading ‘070’ – Personal Redirect Numbers

’07’ – Mobile, Pager and Personal Redirect Numbers

UK telephone numbers starting with ’07’ are used for mobile devices and personal redirect numbers. They are usually more expensive to call than the ’01’, ’02’ and ’03’ numbers. ‘070’ – Personal Redirect Numbers Personal redirect numbers starting with ‘070’ can be used by individuals or businesses to redirect incoming calls to any phone they… Continue reading ’07’ – Mobile, Pager and Personal Redirect Numbers

‘0500’ former freephone numbers

Until they were decommissioned in June 2017, ‘0500’ numbers were a form of freephone number Withdrawal of non-080 freephone numbers In the late 1990s, there were a variety of different prefixes in use for freephone services. In addition to the well-recognised ‘0800’ numbers, freephone numbers also started with ‘0321’, ‘0500’ and ‘0958’ among others. To… Continue reading ‘0500’ former freephone numbers

’05’ – Corporate and VoIP Phone Numbers

UK telephone numbers starting with ’05’ are split into two seperate categories: ‘055’ – Corporate Phone Numbers ‘055’ numbers are intended for use by large organisations who need a dedicated block of numbers that are not geographically linked to a specific location. These could be used, for example, for an internal phone network covering various… Continue reading ’05’ – Corporate and VoIP Phone Numbers

’03’ – Non-geographic Landline Numbers

What are ’03’ Numbers? Numbers starting with ’03’ are charged at standard landline rates, but they are not linked to any specific location. They are designed for use by businesses, government and other organisations to provide a more flexible alternative to area-specific landline numbers. Non-geographic numbers are often used by organisations instead of normal local… Continue reading ’03’ – Non-geographic Landline Numbers

Guide to UK dialing codes

Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom are arranged into 6 high level groups, which indicate the type of number and possible costs of dialing them. You can identify the type of number by looking at the first 2 digits (including the leading zero). 01 and 02 – Geographic Landlines These are the normal home and… Continue reading Guide to UK dialing codes

Telephone numbers in the UK – Part 2 (Subscriber Trunk Dialling onwards)

Introduction The first part of this post covered the early years of telephone numbers in the UK, from the first manual exchanges of the early 1900s through to the introduction of UAX in the late 1930s. In this second post, we will look at the introduction of Subscriber Trunk Dialling in 1958 and subsequent large-scale… Continue reading Telephone numbers in the UK – Part 2 (Subscriber Trunk Dialling onwards)