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Structure. All mobile numbers, nearly all geographic numbers, and nearly all non-geographic numbers have ten national (significant) digits after the trunk code 0. The overall structure of the UK's National Numbering Plan is: [1] A short sample of geographic numbers, set out in the officially approved ( Ofcom) number groups: [2]
Mobile phone numbers moved into the 077xx, 078xx and 079xx ranges (and more recently, 075xx and 074xx have also been brought into use). The exception to this was Manx Telecom mobile phone numbers, where the code became 07624 in order to match the 01624 used for landlines.
Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom are as follows: Prefixes. 01 and 02 - Geographic Numbers. Numbers beginning 01 or 02 are normal phone numbers for home and business telephone lines. These numbers are always split into two parts: The area code comes first, and is linked to a specific part of the country.
There is a set numbering plan for phone numbers within the United Kingdom, which is regulated by the Office of Communications ( Ofcom ), which replaced the Office of Telecommunications ( Oftel) in 2003.
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 industries.
Corporate telephone numbers and VoIP: 06 Reserved 07 Mobile telephones, pagers and personal numbering: 08 Toll-free telephone numbers 09 Premium-rate telephone number (PRS)
Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom have a flexible structure that reflects their historical demands, starting from many independent companies through a nationalised near-monopoly, to a system that supports many different services, including cellular phones, which were not envisaged when the system was first built.
