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  1. In the United Kingdom, telephone numbers are administered by the Office of Communications . For this purpose, Ofcom established a telephone numbering plan , known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan , which is the system for assigning telephone numbers to subscriber stations.

  2. 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.

  3. 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. For example, the 020 area code is for London and the 0121 code is for Birmingham.

  4. List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom; Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom

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  6. A telephone number serves as an address for switching telephone calls using a system of destination code routing. Telephone numbers are entered or dialed by a calling party on the originating telephone set, which transmits the sequence of digits in the process of signaling to a telephone exchange.

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  8. Jul 19, 2023 · The first telephone exchange in the United Kingdom was established in London in 1879. Initially, phone numbers were not standardised, and users could request numbers of varying lengths. However, as the number of subscribers increased, a standardised numbering system became essential to ensure efficient communication. Nationwide Numbering System.

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