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Free phone numbers start with 800 (like 0-800-xxx-xxx). Strangely, some companies to whom a numbering class is allocated may not grant toll-free access to those numbers for other networks. Therefore, sometimes a "toll-free" number is advertised as "toll free only within some operator". Some 08pp prefixes are used for various services, like:
The longest telephone numbers in use until now had been 9 digits long (not including the 0 trunk code), e.g. 051 234 5678, 0303 456789, 03873 56789, 0800 445566. The long term plan is for migration to 10 digit numbering in the UK and in 1991 this started with new 0800 numbers being allocated with 10 digits.
07xxx xxx xxx—mobile phones and WiFi numbers. Individual mobile phone companies are allocated different ranges within the 073xx, 074xx, 075xx, 07624, 077xx, 078xx and 079xx area codes. Changes to mobile phone numbers in the Big Number Change were mostly straight replacements, such as Vodafone customers on the 0378 block became 07778.
T-Mobile UK was a mobile network operator in the UK. First launched as Mercury One2One (stylised one2one ) on 7 September 1993, [ 1 ] the network was originally operated by Mercury Communications . one2one was purchased by Deutsche Telekom in 1999, who rebranded it with their global T-Mobile brand name in 2002.
The 0500 number range will be withdrawn during 2017, with users migrated to 0808 5 numbers. [39] 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 ...
"Regular Expressions for Validating and Formatting GB Telephone Numbers". aa-asterisk.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 April 2014 – patterns for checking which area codes and prefixes are valid and patterns for formatting each number type, archived in 2014 "The first 25 years of UK STD code changes summarised" (PDF). Sam Hallas.
979 – Universal International Premium Rate Service (UIPRS);(formerly assigned to Abu Dhabi, now part of 971 United Arab Emirates) 98 – Iran. 990 – unassigned. 991 – unassigned (formerly used for International Telecommunications Public Correspondence Service) 992 – Tajikistan.
There are more mobile phones than people in the UK. In 2011 there were 82 million subscriptions in the UK. [17] There were 76 million in 2008 [18] and 55 million in January 2005. Each of the main network operators sells mobile phone services to the public.