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Mobile phones (in use since November 2009) 075xx xxx xxx Mobile phones (in use since May 2007) 07624 xxx xxx Mobile phones on the Isle of Man 077xx xxx xxx Mobile phones (former 03xx and 04xx—mostly Vodafone and O2 (formerly Cellnet)) 078xx xxx xxx Mobile phones (former 05xx, 06xx and 08xx—mostly Vodafone and O2 (formerly Cellnet)) 079xx ...
Users can switch carriers while keeping number and prefix (so prefixes are not tightly coupled to a specific carrier). If there is only 32.. followed by any other, shorter number, like 32 51 724859, this is the number of a normal phone, not a mobile. 46x: Join (discontinued mobile phone service provider) [3] 47x: Proximus (or other) 48x
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 landlines due to changes in Ofcom legislation.
0390 later used for Orange mobile; changed from 0390 to 07790 on 28 April 2001. 01391 — unused; 0391 was Fylde (FY1) – numbers were transferred to 0253 [notes 14] 01392 — Exeter (EX2) 01393 — unused; 0393 3 was Foula, Zetland (FZ33) – numbers prefixed by 75 and transferred to 01595 on PhONE day. 01394 — Felixstowe (FX4)
The 1 July changes also saw ‘freephone numbers’ 0800 and 0808 become free to call from both mobiles and landlines. 0500 numbers remained chargeable as previously from mobiles (free from landlines, also as previously), but these numbers were migrated to a new 0808 5 number range in June 2017, and are free from mobiles.
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 is free of charge, unless air-charges apply for mobile telephone service. A toll-free number is identified by a dialing prefix similar to an area code. The specific service access ...
Personal numbering is the name for the virtual telephone number service in the UK. Typically the national destination code used for this service is 70, dialled as 070 from within the UK and +44 70 from outside. The service provides a flexible virtual telephone number able to be routed
Mobile phones use the same area codes as landline telephones, but the number begins with a "15", added to a string of 6, 7 or 8 digits, just as described above. After the "15", the remainder of the number can start with a 3, a 4, a 5 or a 6. This "15" may be dropped when a call is made to a mobile phone in a different code area.