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

[Linus Surguy]

>> 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.

(Of course I meant that 0171 are now 020 7!)

Linus