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Unlike the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man which use the UK area codes 01534, 01481 and 01624, respectively, telephone numbers in British Overseas Territories do not come under the UK telephone numbering plan. Some are within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). These calls are treated as international calls.
This is the format used by most areas. It has a four-digit area code (after the initial zero) and a six digit subscriber number, and is known as 4+6 format. These area codes were changed by adding a "1" directly after the initial zero as a part of PhONEday in 1995. Just short of 581 areas use this format, and the area codes range from 01200 to ...
Bakelite 232L, Pyramid' Telephone with Manchester Dialling Codes Drawer Card. The first UK public automatic exchange was brought into service at Epsom, Surrey, in May 1912 [12] using the American Strowger 'step-by-step' system. It allowed subscribers to dial the local number themselves (instead of asking the operator to connect them manually).
The longest telephone numbers in use until now had been 9 digits long (not including the 0 trunk code), e.g. 051 234 5678, 0303 456789, 03873 56789, 0800 445566. The long term plan is for migration to 10 digit numbering in the UK and in 1991 this started with new 0800 numbers being allocated with 10 digits.
Subscriber trunk dialling (STD), also known as subscriber toll dialing, is a telephone numbering plan feature and telecommunications technology in the United Kingdom and various Commonwealth countries for the dialling of trunk calls by telephone subscribers without the assistance of switchboard operators. Switching systems to enable automatic ...
4 to 5 (company numbers) 10 (fixed and mobile) fixed 00 – Hungary: 36 8 (landline) or 9 (mobile) variable 00 06 Iceland: 354 7 (mobile and landline) or 9 (for 3xxxxxxxx) fixed 00 – Ireland: 353 7 to 9; 10 (mobile voicemail and Northern Ireland) variable 00 0 Italy: 39 6 to 12 (generally 10) fixed 00 – Latvia: 371 8 fixed 00 ...
The original range of telephone numbers starting '03' was progressively cleared between 1995 and 2001: former geographic area codes starting 03 were renumbered to start 013 during the national PhONEday renumbering, while premium rate, local rate and mobile phone prefixes such as 0331, 0345 and 0378 were transferred to a simplified structure of ...
Guardian telephone exchange. Coordinates: 53°28′40″N 2°14′29″W. Entrance to the Guardian Exchange, Manchester. The entrance is on George Street, between Princess Street and Dickinson Street in Manchester City Centre. Guardian Exchange was an underground telephone exchange built in Manchester from 1954 to 1957.