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  2. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - Wikipedia

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    The DVLA is an executive agency of the Department for Transport. The current Chief Executive of the agency is Julie (Karen) Lennard. [2] The DVLA is based in Swansea, Wales, with a prominent 16-storey building in Clase and offices in Swansea Vale. It was previously known as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre.

  3. Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    0800 xxx xxx [notes 3] Special Services – No charge to Customer a.k.a. "Freephone" Free to call from landline, and was up to 40p per minute from mobile, until July 2015 when calls to 080 numbers from mobiles became free. Calls to certain charity and similar services were always free from most mobiles.

  4. Non-geographic telephone numbers in the United Kingdom

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    The 0500 number range will be withdrawn during 2017, with users migrated to 0808 5 numbers. [39] Major mobile phone operators went through a period of charging callers to dial most freephone numbers from around 2005 onwards - but this practice largely ceased on 1 July 2015 as 0800 and 0808 numbers became universally free to call from mobiles ...

  5. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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    Some other free phone services exist, such as "*555" ("star five five five"), which can be dialled from cellular phones to report traffic conditions and incidents of dangerous driving. In the Netherlands, the prefix "0800" is used for toll-free numbers. Calling 0800-numbers from fixed and mobile phones is free by law.

  6. History of telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The 1 July changes also saw ‘freephone numbers0800 and 0808 become free to call from both mobiles and landlines. 0500 numbers remained chargeable as previously from mobiles (free from landlines, also as previously), but these numbers were migrated to a new 0808 5 number range in June 2017, and are free from mobiles.

  7. Driving licence in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    L-plates or D-plates (in Wales only) (Welsh: Dysgwr, "learner") must be conspicuously displayed on the front and rear of the vehicle.; Learner drivers of a particular category and transmission type of vehicle must be accompanied by somebody aged 21 or above who has held a full driving licence for that category and transmission type for at least three years, except in the case of solo ...

  8. PhONEday - Wikipedia

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    Gaps were left within each of those new 10-digit number ranges to allow for the older 9-digit 02 to 09 numbers to migrate in the Big Number Change. Freephone numbers were an exception. Older 9-digit 0500 and 0800 numbers, as well as newer 10-digit 0800 and 0808 numbers, all remained in use after the Big Number Change.

  9. List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    0800 was Tongue (TO0) – numbers were transferred to 0847 (ELNS) [notes 14] 0800 later used for BT Freefone numbers - usage of BT 9-digit 0800 numbers continued after the Big Number Change; all new 0800 allocations have 10 digits and multiple operators now issue 0800 numbers. 01801 — unused