Where is the boundary between 0207 and 0208 phone numbers?

[quimcunx]

When my mother gives someone a telephone number she reads it out in groups of 2 digits. Annoying as fuck.

Is she foreign?

 

[Bungle73]

I don't understand why the have to keep mucking about with the numbers in the first place! First is was 01, then 071/081, then 0171/0181 and now 020. If they needed to change it to make more numbers why didn't they just change it once instead if a million times?

 

[teuchter]

The confusion is all BT's fault, for creating 071 and 081 in the first place as separate codes, and then expecting everyone to understand that when we went back to 020 we only had one code again (like it was with 01).

The more sophisticated amongst us grasped this concept without too much difficulty - unfortunately some got left behind and are still floundering.

 

[teuchter]

 

[PacificOcean]

Where does 020 8 end?

I am 01992 yet the rest of Enfield is 020 8.

 

[teuchter]

Where does 020 8 end?

I am 01992 yet the rest of Enfield is 020 8.

It ends at your front gate.

 

[quimcunx]

The more sophisticated amongst us grasped this concept without too much difficulty - unfortunately some got left behind and are still floundering.

I'm not sure we should still, strictly speaking, let Crispy be part of our sophisticat club, what with him plugging his computer into his bum and all.

 

[quimcunx]

Where does 020 8 end?

I am 01992 yet the rest of Enfield is 020 8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/020

 

[Ms T]

I've said it before, but as lovely as my place was in Chaucer Road I felt cheapened, nay sickened by the 0208 number and SE postcode.

I have an SE24 postcode and an 020 7 number. I win!

And friend who live on Milton Rd, which is further away from Brixton than Chaucer, have 020 7 as well.

 

[rennie]

I lived on the flat end of Brixton Hill many moons ago and had an 0208 number. I moved 2 blocks towards central Brixton and the numbers started with 0207.

 

[trashpony]

My neighbour upstairs has an 0207 number and mine is 0208. Go figure

 

[paolo]

My neighbour upstairs has an 0207 number and mine is 0208. Go figure

No no no. You both have 020 numbers.

 

[quimcunx]

My neighbour upstairs has an 0207 number and mine is 0208. Go figure

No no no. You both have 020 numbers.

Quite.

 

[Orang Utan]

I contend that you can only say you have an 020 number if a London number could start with any number between 0-9, but they only start with 7, 8 and 3, so 0208, 0207 and 0203 are correct formulations.

 

[trashpony]

No no no. You both have 020 numbers.

You are so right

 

[quimcunx]

I contend that you can only say you have an 020 number if a London number could start with any number between 0-9, but they only start with 7, 8 and 3, so 0208, 0207 and 0203 are correct formulations.

Contend all you wish. You'd stil be wrong.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/020

Sub ranges

With the introduction of the (020) area code, telephone numbers were changed from 7-digits (xxx-xxxx) to 8-digits (xxxx-xxxx) with the following sub-ranges:
0xxx xxxx
1xxx xxxx national dialling only, not issued locally
2xxx xxxx future use
3xxx xxxx new local numbers created by move to 020 (currently issued)
4xxx xxxx
5xxx xxxx
6xxx xxxx future use
70xx xxxx
71xx xxxx new local numbers created by move to 020
72xx xxxx
73xx xxxx
74xx xxxx
75xx xxxx
76xx xxxx
77xx xxxx
78xx xxxx
79xx xxxx local numbers transferred from 0171
80xx xxxx
81xx xxxx new local numbers created by move to 020
82xx xxxx
83xx xxxx
84xx xxxx
85xx xxxx
86xx xxxx
87xx xxxx
88xx xxxx
89xx xxxx local numbers transferred from 0181
9xxx xxxx future use

 

[Orang Utan]

That proves my point

 

[dodgepot]

no it doesn't it proves that 020 is the london dialling code!

 

[teuchter]

Now you are going to have to argue that the codes are 0203, 02079, 02081, and 02089. Otherwise you'll look silly.

 

[Orang Utan]

O201 national dialling only

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

O201 national dialling only

No

020 1*** ****
020 0*** **** national dialing only

National Dialing Only ranges
These ranges have subscriber numbers beginning with the digits '0' or '1', eg:
01332 050 xxx Derby
01382 006 xxx Dundee
0141 005 xxxx Glasgow
020 0003 xxxx London
In order to avoid confusion with codes beginning with these digits, the area code must always be dialled, even from within the same geographic exchange. Traditionally these have not been used for inbound calls, although these are now being allocated to some Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services[citation needed]. This has been problematic as some mobile phone operators in the UK do not allow access to these ranges, and there may also be difficulty accessing these numbers from outside the UK.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclo...e-United-Kingdom#National_Dialing_Only_ranges


020 anything else - London

I really don't see how you can't grasp this very very simple concept. 020 is the code, the next eight digits are the local number.

 

[scifisam]

the three digit number after the 020-7 of 020-8 bit of the phone number in most cases relates to the exchange and is based on the first three letters of the exchange name as dialled on a telephone - ie 733 = RED which means that it was originally connected through the Red Hill telephone exchange (think about the numbers you type to get different letters when text messaging on your mobile phone)

Another common one in Brixton is 020 7274 which is the Brixton exchange (BRI = 274)

So in the TfL number i gave above (020 7222 1234) 222 is the exchange number which relates to ABB the exchange name is (Westminster) Abbey which is near the TfL offices.

See http://www.wifi-forum.com/wf/showthread.php?t=5412 for further info

That's interesting - but my number's not on there.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

There's still a shop on Chatsworth Road which has its number in the '01' plus number format.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

There's still a shop on Chatsworth Road which has its number in the '01' plus number format.

I mean to say, they haven't switched their sign in about 25 years, not that they have some exclusive special number.

 

[Orang Utan]

No

020 1*** ****
020 0*** **** national dialing only

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclo...e-United-Kingdom#National_Dialing_Only_ranges


020 anything else - London

I really don't see how you can't grasp this very very simple concept. 020 is the code, the next eight digits are the local number.

Cos when it started, the only variation was the 7 & 8

 

[xenon]

No no no. You both have 020 numbers.

Worst pedantry ever!

Besides you should have picked her up for the use of "an" before a consonant.

 

[paolo]

Worst pedantry ever!

Besides you should have picked her up for the use of "an" before a consonant.

I doubt I'll ever pawn the likes of trashy on grammar

 

[teuchter]

The pertinent question here is: what is the benefit of quoting the codes as "0207" or "0208"?

 

[xenon]

That's interesting - but my number's not on there.

There's more here.
http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/phreak/tenp_01.htm

 

[paolo]

The pertinent question here is: what is the benefit of quoting the codes as "0207" or "0208"?

None, because they're not codes. But you already knew that, so over to the "code blind"... Come on we need to know, chop chop!