"Charlie Pearce" wrote in
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:07:32 +0000, Clive Page
wrote:

But the area codes were *never* 0207 and 0208 - this is just a (very)
commonly-held misconception because the changeover wasn't communicated
well enough.

I can understand why people were confused: they thought that it was a
like-for-like change from 0171 - 0207 and 0181 - 0208.


Going off at a tangent, slightly, how are 07xxx mobile phone codes
allocated: did different networks (Vodafone, one2one etc) buy blocks of
codes and allocate from them, or are the numbers allocated completely at
random? In other words, for a given code (eg 07748) are all numbers with
that code connected via the same provider?