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Telephone dialling codes in the United Kingdom. This is a list of telephone dialling codes in the United Kingdom, which adopts an open telephone numbering plan for its public switched telephone network. The national telephone numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom, an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications ...
United Kingdom: Continent: Europe: Regulator: Ofcom: Type: Open: NSN length: 7, 9, 10: Format: various, see text: Numbering plan: The National Telephone Numbering Plan: Last updated: 18 September 2010: Access codes; Country code: 44: International access: 00: Long-distance: 0: List of United Kingdom dialing codes
Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing ( ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
List of United Kingdom codes. 020 is the national dialling code for London in the United Kingdom. All subscriber numbers within the area code consist of eight digits and it has capacity for approaching 100 million telephone numbers. The code is used at 170 telephone exchanges in and around Greater London as part of the largest linked numbering ...
Widespread UK telephone code misconceptions, in particular brought on by the Big Number Change in 2000, have been reported by regulator Ofcom since publication of a report it commissioned in 2004. The telephone area code for most of Greater London and some surrounding areas is 020, not "0207", "0208" or "0203".
Telephone numbers were displayed preceded by the exchange name, with the first three letters highlighted to indicate the code, and number, such as WHI tehall 1212 . Director schemes were gradually introduced in other major cities of the UK — Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester .
373 5 / 373 2 (Moldova codes used) 7 variable 00 0 Turkey: 90 10 fixed 00 0 Northern Cyprus † 90 392 (fixed), 90 533 / 90 542 (mobile) 7 fixed 00 0 United Kingdom: 44 9 or 10 digits (geographic); 7, 9 or 10 (non-geographic) variable 00 0 Ukraine: 380 9 variable 00 0 Vatican City: 379 (not activated)
For example, a landline subscriber in the UK wishing to call Australia would first dial the following sequence: 00 (the call prefix used in the UK to access the international service), followed by 61 (the country calling code for Australia), followed by the national subscriber number (without the trunk prefix 0 used for dialing within Australia).
United Kingdom area code for Newcastle upon Tyne/Tyneside/Durham/Sunderland; National calling: 0191: International calling +44 191: Conservation: No: Active since: 16 April 1995: Previous code(s) 091: Earlier code(s) 0385, 0632, 0783, 0894: Number format: 0191 xxx xxxx: Coverage; Area served: Chester-le-Street Durham Seaham Peterlee Sunderland ...
RFC 3966 The tel: URI for telephone numbers; History of UK dialing codes, with lists of codes and more links; World Telephone Numbering Guide which can be used to look up telephone numbering information; ITU National Numbering Plans which links to the numbering plans of individual countries.