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A standard United Kingdom fixed telephone number (i.e. a landline, or geographical number, as opposed to a mobile telephone number or special rate non-geographic fixed line) is divided into three parts, the trunk prefix code (0 in the UK), an STD code (area code) followed by a local number. The STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialling) code indicates the ...
Phone companies will now have to identify and block calls from abroad which falsely display a UK telephone number as a ‘presentation number’. Millions of scam calls from abroad to be blocked ...
This is a list of telephone dialling codes in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, which adopts an open telephone numbering plan for its public switched telephone network. The national telephone numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom , an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries.
This leads to a restriction as to which initial digits can be used for subscriber numbers within those four-digit area codes, e.g. in the 01387 four-digit area code, subscriber numbers cannot begin with a 3 because 013873 is a separate five-digit area code; likewise in the 01946 four-digit area code, subscriber numbers cannot begin with a 7 ...
Original STD code and number format Exchange Local dialling from Newton Abbot Modern area code and number format (036 42) xxx: Widecombe-in-the-Moor 912 xxx (01364) 621xxx (036 43) xxx: Poundsgate 913 xxx (01364) 631xxx (036 44) xxxx: Buckfastleigh 914 xxxx (01364) 64xxxx (036 45) xxxx: Ashburton 915 xxxx (01364) 65xxxx (036 46) xxx: Haytor 916 xxx
Wrong number scams — in which con artists send out huge batches of eye-grabbing but innocuous texts — have become the introduction du jour for scammers looking for people to bilk for money ...
Calling certain non-geographic number ranges might not be possible when calling from abroad of the United Kingdom. This is mostly the case with the 070 personal numbering range, the 080 freephone range and service numbers starting 084, 087, and 09.
Look at the area code: Start by comparing the phone number’s area code to the list of area codes you should never answer. If it’s on the list, there’s a good chance there’s a scammer on ...