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Old January 10th 05, 11:19 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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(Martin Underwood) wrote:

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?

There was a translation table from the previous allocations which, being
picked from unused STD allocations, were all over the place. E.g. my O2
(then Cellnet) number was 0410 which became 07710.

In general O2 and Vodafone are in both 077 and 078 and T-Mobile and Orange
are 079 though.

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