"Roland Perry" wrote in message

In message , at 15:38:00 on
Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Recliner remarked:
It would be instructive to know what proportion of within-London
calls are dialled from London landlines as 11 digits. Rather a lot,
I fear.

Probably so -- is there any (price) penalty for so doing?

Not on the calls. But if we'd been brave enough to make everyone dial
11-digit numbers then the various "PhoneDay" code changes would have
been much simpler, and saved money that way.

Well, I live in London, but dial 15-digit numbers even for local numbers
as I use an indirect (free) service. Of course, I don't dial the 4-digit
prefix, but have it on a memory button. I can't understand why anyone
chooses to pay BT's phone charges when these are entirely optional
(apart from the line rental). I can call the US for less than BT's local
charges.