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

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    Pagers moved into 076xx, while personal numbers moved to 070. Mobile phone numbers moved into the 077xx, 078xx and 079xx ranges (and more recently, 075xx and 074xx have also been brought into use). The exception to this was Manx Telecom mobile phone numbers, where the code became 07624 in order to match the 01624 used for landlines.

  3. Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Mobile operators may also charge more for calls to the islands and these calls are usually excluded from calling plans. Calls and SMS messages sent to island mobile phone numbers are not charged at the same rate as calls to UK mobile phone numbers. Guernsey. This area code is used for the Bailiwick of Guernsey, i.e. including Alderney and Sark.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Non-geographic telephone numbers in the United Kingdom

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    The 0500 number range will be withdrawn during 2017, with users migrated to 0808 5 numbers. 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 and ...

  6. How to Do a Free Reverse Phone Lookup & the 8 Best ... - AOL

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    5. GreatPeopleSearch. GreatPeopleSearch is a user-friendly free reverse phone number lookup site that provides searchers with fast and accurate results. It draws on publicly available national ...

  7. Reverse telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    A reverse telephone directory (also known as a gray pages directory, criss-cross directory or reverse phone lookup) is a collection of telephone numbers and associated customer details. However, unlike a standard telephone directory, where the user uses customer's details (such as name and address) in order to retrieve the telephone number of ...

  8. Telephone number - Wikipedia

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    Many mobile phones allow the + to be entered directly, by pressing and holding the "0" for GSM phones, or sometimes "*" for CDMA phones. The 3GPP standards for mobile networks provide a BCD-encoded field of ten bytes for the telephone number ("Dialling Number/SCC String"). The international call prefix or "+" is not counted as it encodes a ...

  9. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    Content. Subscriber names are generally listed in alphabetical order, together with their postal or street address and telephone number.In principle every subscriber in the geographical coverage area is listed, but subscribers may request the exclusion of their number from the directory, often for a fee; their number is then said to be "unlisted" (US and Canada), "ex-directory" (British ...