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  2. Travelodge (British company) - Wikipedia

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    In mid-2010, Travelodge bought 52 Innkeeper's Lodge properties from the Mitchells & Butlers pub chain, leaving less than half the original number of Innkeeper's Lodge hotels. In 2011, Travelodge announced a tie-up with British supermarket Waitrose to develop three joint sites in the UK. [11]

  3. Economy of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The UK is home to a number of large energy companies, including two of the six oil and gas "supermajors" – BP and Shell plc. [172] [173] The UK is also rich in a number of natural resources including coal, tin, limestone, iron ore, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, lead and silica.

  4. Sky UK - Wikipedia

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    By June 2000 the service had 3.6 million subscribers, which gave BSkyB 8.988 million subscribers across all platforms. This substantial growth reflected BSkyB's 34% share of viewers in multi-channel homes (up from 13.4% in 1999). [24] BSkyB's analogue service ended in October 2001, and the digital service would eventually be marketed as just 'Sky'.

  5. Mobile number portability - Wikipedia

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    Number Portability Clearinghouse services were previously handled by iconectiv. 2 days can be just working days. [51] Vietnam: 2018.11.16 (postpaid) 2019.01.01 (prepaid) 2 60,000 VND (postpaid) 50,000 VND (prepaid) Number Portability Clearinghouse service is handled by iconectiv. [52]

  6. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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    A toll-free telephone number or freephone number is a telephone number that is billed for all arriving calls. For the calling party, a call to a toll-free number from a landline is free of charge. A toll-free number is identified by a dialing prefix similar to an area code. The specific service access varies by country.

  7. VK (service) - Wikipedia

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    Number of Registered users on VKontakte between 2006 and 2012 Pavel Durov, the founder of VKontakte, on his 26th birthday, 10 October 2010. VKontakte was conceived in 2006 when Pavel Durov , creator of the popular student forum spbgu.ru , met his former classmate Vyacheslav Mirilashvili in St. Petersburg after graduating from the Faculty of ...

  8. United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The UK was ranked eighth among national European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance Index assessing intensity of use, quality of service and safety. [ 313 ] The UK has a direct train between London and Paris which takes 2hrs 16mins [ 314 ] called the Eurostar , it travels through the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel ...

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

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    Until the mid-1980s freephone numbers could be accessed only by ringing the operator on 100 and asking to be connected, e.g. Freephone 8963 for BT customer service. From 1985, the 0800 code came into use for freephone services. [19] These numbers usually had 10 digits, but a few exceptions had only 8 digits, e.g. 0800 1111 for ChildLine.