Tom Anderson wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_tele...misconceptions

"However, according to research by regulator Ofcom in February 2005, only
13% of respondents identified the code for London correctly without
prompting: 59% incorrectly identified it as 0207 or 0208."

What annoys me is when you give office staff your phone number correctly and
they then read it back to you as "0208... ". I think Ofcom should run an ad
campaign "If you say 0207 or 0208 in a phone number, you are an idiot." What
have they got to lose? Ofcom is a monopoly. It can offend people without
losing anything.

John Rowland wrote on 04 May
2009 01:46:20 ...
Tom Anderson wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_tele...misconceptions

"However, according to research by regulator Ofcom in February 2005, only
13% of respondents identified the code for London correctly without
prompting: 59% incorrectly identified it as 0207 or 0208."

What annoys me is when you give office staff your phone number correctly and
they then read it back to you as "0208... ". I think Ofcom should run an ad
campaign "If you say 0207 or 0208 in a phone number, you are an idiot." What
have they got to lose? Ofcom is a monopoly. It can offend people without
losing anything.

Is this discussion meant to have some relevance to New Johnston?

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On Mon, 4 May 2009, Richard J. wrote:

John Rowland wrote on 04 May 2009
01:46:20 ...
Tom Anderson wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_tele...misconceptions

"However, according to research by regulator Ofcom in February 2005, only
13% of respondents identified the code for London correctly without
prompting: 59% incorrectly identified it as 0207 or 0208."

What annoys me is when you give office staff your phone number correctly
and they then read it back to you as "0208... ". I think Ofcom should run
an ad campaign "If you say 0207 or 0208 in a phone number, you are an
idiot." What have they got to lose? Ofcom is a monopoly. It can offend
people without losing anything.

Although its bosses might lose their jobs.

My business card says 0207 on it. My boss actually gave me the design to
check before sending it for printing, and i mumbled something about the
area code being wrong, but he'd done everyone else's that way, and i
didn't want to actually tell him he'd got it wrong. So now my name is on
it millimetres away from a duff number. So it goes.

Perhaps the solution is to require everyone to always dial area codes all
the time, as you do for mobiles, such that the issue of where the area
code ends becomes moot.

Is this discussion meant to have some relevance to New Johnston?

No, i don't think so.

tom

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