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

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:31 +0000, Linus Surguy wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The main reason is because 01 for London turned into 0171 & 0181 and then 
> people were told that 'numbers starting 0171 are now 020 8', but they 
> assumed that that meant that the '020 8' bit was still the whole dialling 
> code.
> 
> Linus

even BT still lists them as 0208 (and most likely 0207).
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Abt.com
+0208&btnG=Search

According to friends in London (I only lived in Scotland so I didnt see
a london bill) listed the number on the bill as 0208 or 0207 instead of
020 8/020 7 until recently.  So many people just copied BT rather than
trying to do something different, even if symantically more correct.


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