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  2. Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, telephone numbers are administered by the Office of Communications ( Ofcom ). For this purpose, Ofcom established a telephone numbering plan, known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, which is the system for assigning telephone numbers to subscriber stations. Telephone numbers are of variable length.

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

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    From the introduction of the telephone in the late 1870s, [5] to the early 1990s, telephone numbers in most of the United Kingdom were usually shown with a written exchange name followed by the subscriber number, e.g. 'Mallaig 10' or 'Aberdeen 43342'. This allowed calls to be placed initially through the operator and later by using local or ...

  4. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Kenmore 9392 is a five-pull (1L-4N) small-city telephone number for the Kenmore exchange in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MArket 7032 is a six-digit (2L-4N) telephone number. This format was in use from the 1920s through the 1950s, and was phased out c. 1960. BALdwin 6828 is an urban 3L-4N example, used only in the largest cities before conversion to ...

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

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    The number format '2+8' refers to, e.g. London, numbers using the (020) xxxx xxxx format. The number format '5+4' refers to, e.g. Brampton, numbers using the (0169 77) xxxx format. Areas with mandatory area code dialling. In the following areas, the area code must be included when dialling local numbers.

  6. Telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In the UK, letters were assigned to numbers in a similar fashion to North America, except that the letter O was allocated to the digit 0 (zero); digit 6 had only M and N. The letter Q was later added to the zero position on British dials, in anticipation of direct international dialing to Paris, which commenced in 1963.

  7. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Peru uses 2-digit area codes followed by 6-digit subscriber numbers outside of Lima. In Lima the area code is "1" and the subscriber number has seven digits, divided XXX XXXX. The "trunk 0" is often used, especially for numbers outside Lima. For example, a phone number in Arequipa might be written (054) XX-XXXX.

  8. List of country calling codes - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.

  9. All-figure dialling - Wikipedia

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    All-figure dialling was a telephone numbering plan introduced in the United Kingdom starting in 1966 that replaced the traditional system of using initial letters of telephone exchange names as the first part of a telephone number. [1] The change affected subscriber numbers in the cities of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and ...