On Nov 16, 12:34 pm, Rev Adrian Kennard wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:
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Mizter T wrote:

On 16 Nov, 10:06, G wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:21:06 +0000, James Farrar

wrote:
One of the mobile companies -- Vodafone, I think -- that displays the
area the mobile is in on some handsets' screens displays 0207 / 0208,
too.
I put that down to the silly numbering conventions:

Large cities (e.g. Birmingham) = 4 digits (0121)
Provincial towns = 5 digits (e.g. 01772)
'02' numbers (e.g. London, NI, Cardiff) = 3 digits
02 numbers actually come out at 5 digits eg Southampton 02380, Portsmouth
02392

That is a weird one, Clive DW was going to try and get to the bottom of it
for me, but the idea was surely that Southampton and Portsmouth are both 023
area code, with 80nnnnnn and 92nnnnnn numbers. But even the BT dialling
code site shows up 02380 and 02392 as separate codes, even though you have
to dial 8 numbers for local calls? (I'm in 01489, so have 023 areas on both
sides - weird)

They key factor as to where the are code ends and the local number
starts is what you can dial without dialling the full number. From any
(023) number you can dial an 8 digit number for any other (023) number.
So (023) is the area code. Just odd that it is two areas, blame OFTEL,
as was.

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Indeed so. My number starts 023-9200 nnnn. Dialling 00nnnn would
look to the equipment like the miss-dialled international number.

Presumably the rest of the Solent area was intended to eventually
become part of 023. Who knows what will happen now that Offcom have
changed policy.

Adrian