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Although some mobile phones allow emergency calls to be attempted without a SIM card, at present the UK networks reject such calls. Since November 2009, an emergency call can be made through any UK mobile network as long as there is a SIM for any valid UK network in the handset.
Before the UK Calling changes, calls to ‘Freephone’ numbers were generally free when called from a landline, however mobile users were usually charged for calling them. The 1 July legislation made all calls to 0800 and 0808 numbers free for consumers to dial from mobile phones, just as they are from landlines. [7]
The national telephone numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom, an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. This list is based on the official standard, but includes defunct codes and historical changes, including the derivation of the two letter identities, in cases where known.
Acquired by PG Mobile. Simple Call Mobile EE: 31 October 2014 [51] Ceased operations. Talktalk Mobile: Vodafone: 2018 [52] Ceased operations. The People's Operator (TPO Mobile) Three: 26 February 2019 [53] Entered administration. Customers were encouraged to move to SMARTY. [53] U2i Mobile EE: 11 July 2017 [54] Ceased operations. Vectone Mobile ...
Mobile phones use geographic area codes (two digits): after that, all numbers assigned to mobile service have nine digits, starting with 6, 7, 8 or 9 (example: 55 15 99999–9999). 90 is not possible, because collect calls start with this number. [5] xx 7: xx 8: xx 9: British Indian Ocean Territory +246: 380 7 387 British Virgin Islands +1: 284: 10
Alongside mobile telephone services, the company also provided fixed line services and home broadband. O2 purchased Be Un Limited, an internet service provider in the UK, for £50 million in June 2006. [49] O2 retained the Be brand, and launched a separate O2-branded broadband service on 15 October 2007, using the Be network.
With PhONEday in 1995 and the Big Number Change, the UK had achieved huge spare capacity for new services and simple to understand prefix groupings: 01 and 02 for geographic numbers, 070 for personal numbers, 076 for pagers, 07624, 077, 078 and 079 for mobiles, 0500 and 080 for freephone, 084 and 087 for non-geographic and 090 for premium rate ...
For example, the UK number +44 70 0585 0070 might route to an Inmarsat satellite phone number, allowing the user to have a UK number while roaming globally. This service has however been reported as having "significant scamming activity" of various sorts [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as users can mistakenly assume they are calling a UK mobile telephone number ...