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  2. Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The UK has two free emergency numbers: the traditional 999, which is still widely used, and the EU standard 112. Both 999 and 112 are used to contact all emergency services: Police, Fire Service, Ambulance Service and Coastguard. (Standard advice for Mountain Rescue or Cave Rescue is to ask the emergency operator for the police, who oversee the ...

  3. Non-geographic telephone numbers in the United Kingdom

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    According to Ofcom, [72] UK consumers paid around £1.9 billion for calls to non-geographic numbers in 2009. Clients are attracted to 084 and 087 numbers because per minute revenue is generated for them from each call, and call queuing is permitted. Call centres may generate very high revenue from high call volumes.

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

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    01869 — Bicester, Oxfordshire – – Was originally 0095 (OX5) until changed to 0869 in 1968. 01870 — Isle of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Uist (US0) – – Was originally 0047 (OH) until changed to 0870 in 1968. 01871 — Castlebay, Outer Hebrides – – Was originally 0047 (OH7) until changed to 0871 in 1968.

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

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    In comparison, for many callers, calls to 01, 02 and 03 numbers had effectively become "free". 2006 new 075xx mobile numbers introduced. As a result of ever increasing mobile phone ownership, and especially the introduction of mobile broadband in the UK, the 075xx number range was opened in October 2006. This joined the existing 07624, 077xx ...

  6. UK telephone code misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    A standard United Kingdom fixed telephone number (i.e. a landline, or geographical number, as opposed to a mobile telephone number or special rate non-geographic fixed line) is divided into three parts, the trunk prefix code (0 in the UK), an STD code (area code) followed by a local number. The STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialling) code indicates the ...

  7. Telecommunications in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Company logo on porch of 17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham (former Central exchange) National Telephone Company (NTC) was a British telephone company from 1881 until 1911, which brought together smaller local companies in the early years of the telephone. Under the Telephone Transfer Act 1911 it was taken over by the General Post Office (GPO ...

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