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In practice, such charging rates applied only from BT lines and calls typically cost 16p per minute from non-BT landlines and up to 45p per minute from mobile telephones. In 1999, landline providers started to offer "inclusive" call packages where calls to 01 and 02 numbers were free. Within a few years most customers were on this type of plan.
Telephones on automatic exchanges had letters as well as numbers marked on the telephone dial, and calls to London numbers used the first three letters of the exchange name followed by four digits, e.g. EUS 1234. [2] The number could be dialled as 387-1234 or spoken to a manual exchange operator as Euston 1234.
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 list is ...
TalkTalk Telecom Group Limited (formerly New TalkTalk plc from 2009–2010 and TalkTalk Telecom Group plc from 2010–2021; [1] commonly known as TalkTalk Group, trading as TalkTalk) is a British telecommunications company that provides pay television and Internet access services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom.
KCOM Group (formerly known as Kingston Communications and latterly KC) is a UK communications and IT services provider.Its headquarters are in the city of Kingston upon Hull, and it serves local residents and businesses with Internet and telephony services.
Moseley and Sons as a licensed telephone agent supplied private telephones to local customers. Their head of construction, Alexander Marr, patented in 1879, a type of granular carbon microphone (originally for the transmission of the sound of opera), which enabled them to get a foothold in the business of manufacturing telephones in the UK.
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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. 0808 9xx xxxx numbers are used by freephone internet services. 0800 xxx xxxx; 0808 xxx xxxx