What about the old notion that inner London numbers begin with a 7, while outer numbers begin with 8? Well, it's mostly true, but you can't take it for granted.
The 'rule' goes back to ye olde days of when the former 01 code for London was split. Central areas plus the newly developing Docklands were given an area code, while all other parts of the capital i. These evolved into and in Some of you may still remember the latter code from the Live and Kicking jingle.
Everyone was just getting used to this set up when yet another change was enacted. From April , the area codes for London were reunified into To re-emphasise, note that it's simply , and not and The change added millions of potential new phone numbers to the system by shifting a digit from the area code over to the phone number. If your number had previously been xxx-xxxx it was now 8xxx-xxxx. At least at first, this meant that you could still bank on an '8' number corresponding to outer London, while a '7' number indicated somewhere central.
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Dialling Code Kempen, Niederrhein. Dialling Code Velbert-Neviges. It will cover the whole of Greater London rather than either inner or outer London as the codes which were introduced in did. Communications watchdog Ofcom announced the new code today, saying it wanted to give plenty of notice and to avoid disruption which could be caused if other numbers were chosen.
About , new phone numbers are allocated to BT and its rivals in London each year and although there are many and numbers left, the ones will start to become prevalent later this decade. Numbers are not recycled so each new building or business is given a new number or block of numbers. Ofcom pointed out that demand for phone lines continues to outstrip population growth in the capital, with many people and businesses wanting more than one line.
It also said that the rapid growth in high-speed broadband internet lines seems to have slowed the switch away from fixed lines to mobile phones. The code is meant to bring no social cache nor stigma to a phone number. Ofcom said that the original split between the inner London and outer London codes is already blurred, with 60 per cent of the former and only 45 per cent of the latter now relating to the original BT exchange areas to which they were ascribed.
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