[Asterisk-biz] UK DID 0208 £1 per month

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:32 +0000, Steve Kennedy wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:14:41AM -0800, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> 
> > > Please, if you are going to market London numbers, format them correctly! 
> > > The code for London is 020, therefore your numbers are 020 80xx xxxx.
> > how long ago was it that BT started formatting them correctly?  I dont
> > think it was that long ago.  Everyone formats it the way that Sam did,
> > right or wrong, mostly because everyone formats them that way.  Given
> > that until recently BT did the same exact thing, I dont think you can
> > hold it against him too much :)
> 
> BT used that formatting from the start.
> 
> It fits in with the national number system.
> 

Hmm..  phone bills used to be formatted 0207 or 0208 from BT.  Many
people thought that was proper becuase it appeared on their phone bill.
That is why there is such a high percentage of people that put webpages
up with 0207 or 0208 for their phone number rather than breaking it
after the 20, which is more proper.


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