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In the United Kingdom, telephone numbers are administered by the Office of Communications ( Ofcom ). For this purpose, Ofcom established a telephone numbering plan, known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, which is the system for assigning telephone numbers to subscriber stations. Telephone numbers are of variable length.
The 1 July changes also saw ‘freephone numbers’ 0800 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.
Mobile numbers start with the mobile operator code (which begins from 07X, followed by seven digits for the main telephone number). Format: (XXX ZZZZZZZ) where: When dialing a mobile number, "xxx" represents the mobile operator code. All mobile operator codes begin with the number 07. "zzzzzzz" represents the main telephone number of seven digits.
The 0500 number range will be withdrawn during 2017, with users migrated to 0808 5 numbers. [40] 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 ...
0117. Bristol(previously 0272)[notes 3] 0171. unused(was Inner Londonuntil 2000)(previously 071)[notes 3](previously 01)[notes 4] 028. Northern Ireland[notes 7](previously used multiple 01xxx and 01xxxx area codes until 2000)[notes 2](previously used multiple 0xxx and 0xxxx area codes until 1995)[notes 3] 0118.
E.164 is an international standard ( ITU-T Recommendation), titled The international public telecommunication numbering plan, that defines a numbering plan for the worldwide public switched telephone network (PSTN) and some other data networks . E.164 defines a general format for international telephone numbers.
979 – Universal International Premium Rate Service (UIPRS); (formerly assigned to Abu Dhabi, now part of 971 United Arab Emirates) 98 – Iran. 990 – unassigned. 991 – unassigned (formerly used for International Telecommunications Public Correspondence Service) 992 – Tajikistan.
Personal numbering is the name for the virtual telephone number service in the UK. Typically the national destination code used for this service is (0)70. The service provides a flexible virtual telephone number able to be routed to any other number, including international mobiles. For example, the UK number +44 70 0585 0070 might route to an ...