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  2. Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers in United Kingdom Telephone Dialling Codes in the United Kingdom Location Country United Kingdom Continent Europe Regulator Ofcom Type Open NSN length 7, 9, 10 [notes 1] Format various, see text Numbering plan The National Telephone Numbering Plan Last updated 18 September 2010 Access codes Country code 44 International access 00 Long-distance 0 List of United Kingdom dialing ...

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

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    By requiring the area code for all local calls, Ofcom are able to allocate numbers starting with 1 or 0. This increases the number of telephone numbers available without requiring a number change. 2015 UK Calling legislation. On 1 July 2015, Ofcom made a number of changes to the way phone calls to UK service numbers would be charged.

  4. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Peru uses 2-digit area codes followed by 6-digit subscriber numbers outside of Lima. In Lima the area code is "1" and the subscriber number has seven digits, divided XXX XXXX. The "trunk 0" is often used, especially for numbers outside Lima. For example, a phone number in Arequipa might be written (054) XX-XXXX.

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

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    The number format '5+4' refers to, e.g. Brampton, numbers using the (0169 77) xxxx format. Areas with mandatory area code dialling. In the following areas, the area code must be included when dialling local numbers. This enables local numbers to start with 0 or 1 and was introduced to increase the number of available telephone numbers within ...

  6. UK telephone code misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    When dialling a UK number from abroad, the zero must be omitted. Because of this, it has become common (but incorrect) practice to write telephone numbers used both nationally and internationally with the 0 in parentheses, for example: +44 (0)20 7946 0234; if the number is dialled with the parenthesised zero, the call will fail.

  7. List of country calling codes - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.

  8. Telephone numbers in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Calling codes in Europe. Telephone numbers in Europe are managed by the national telecommunications authorities of each country. Most country codes start with 3 and 4, but some countries that by the Copenhagen criteria are considered part of Europe have country codes starting on numbers most common outside of Europe (e.g. Faroe Islands of Denmark have a code starting on number 2, which is most ...

  9. National Number Group - Wikipedia

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    The UK Public Switched Telephone Network is divided up by area into National Number Groups (NNG's), and then further divided up into dialling codes.. The structure of UK telephone numbers is a leading zero (replaced with +44 for international calls from outside the UK) followed by the NNG — a 2, 3, 4 or 5 digit dialling code (digits SA in the example below) to different geographic areas of ...