Mrs Redboots wrote:
Michael Bell wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 27 Dec 2004:

I think rhythm is important here, many people break phone Nos into
triplets, but it's into duplets on the continent.

Really, of course, we should quote London numbers in the same way
that we quote every other number (mobiles included) - as a group of
5 followed by a group of 6.

We don't quote all other numbers as 5+6. Manchester, for example, has
had 3-digit exchange numbers for years (originally with letters like
London), so that CENtral 1234 became 061-236 1234, and is now 0161 236
1234. The same is true of Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, etc.

Reading (0118), Coventry (024) and several others have had new exchange
codes, and should be and often are quoted correctly with their 3 or
4-digit area code. (Though 024 is actually shared with other areas!)

Also, I certainly don't adhere to any particular grouping of mobile
numbers, preferring to group the digits in the most memorable way. Do
any of the mobile phone companies or any other relevant body recommend a
particular format for mobile numbers?

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Richard J.
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Mrs Redboots wrote:

Really, of course, we should quote London numbers in the same way
that we quote every other number (mobiles included) - as a group of
5 followed by a group of 6.
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Also, I certainly don't adhere to any particular grouping of mobile
numbers, preferring to group the digits in the most memorable way. Do
any of the mobile phone companies or any other relevant body recommend a
particular format for mobile numbers?

I find them much easier to quote as, say, 0791-234-5678. The only
recommendation I've seen is to quote them as +44(0)7912345678.
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Mrs Redboots wrote:

Really, of course, we should quote London numbers in the same way
that we quote every other number (mobiles included) - as a group of
5 followed by a group of 6.
snip
Also, I certainly don't adhere to any particular grouping of mobile
numbers, preferring to group the digits in the most memorable way. Do
any of the mobile phone companies or any other relevant body recommend a
particular format for mobile numbers?

I find them much easier to quote as, say, 0791-234-5678. The only
recommendation I've seen is to quote them as +44(0)7912345678.

I, too, quote mobiles as 4+3+4 - the first 4 digits tend to be the
provider code, certainly our work ones (we have about 2000 mobile
numbers) are like that. But as I travel for work, mostly I store numbers
as +44 20 1234 5678. (Incidentally, the schoolboy in my finds it
hysterically funny that the international code for Russia is '007').

BBC London (or GLN or whatever) yesterday had the number displayed
correctly, but the newsreader read it twice, once 'correctly' and the
second time as 0207 008 0000 (probably from force of habit).

If it really bugs you (or anything else broadcast on the BBC prompts you
to complain) the best way is to ring BBC Audience Services 08700 100 222
and ask to speak to the Duty Officer (Or ring 020 7580 4468 for radio -
still ask for the Duty Officer). The BBC records all calls in the 'Duty
Log' which circulates around the management (daily when I worked there).
And they do take notice.
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Steve
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Terry Harper wrote:
"Richard J." wrote...
Mrs Redboots wrote:

Really, of course, we should quote London numbers in the same way
that we quote every other number (mobiles included) - as a group of
5 followed by a group of 6.
snip
Also, I certainly don't adhere to any particular grouping of mobile
numbers, preferring to group the digits in the most memorable way. Do
any of the mobile phone companies or any other relevant body recommend a
particular format for mobile numbers?

I find them much easier to quote as, say, 0791-234-5678. The only
recommendation I've seen is to quote them as +44(0)7912345678.

....Which looks utterly stupid to me, as here we bracket the area code as
an alternative to including the country code.

IOW your example should either be
(0791) 234 5678 or
+44 791 234 5678