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This section is definitely excessive detail for this article. What to do with it? Split it out as a 2003 area name changes article, or create a National Telephone Numbering Plan article and include it there? MRSC ( talk) 17:02, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Split - Article is long, and should be split, starting with the History section. Thoughts? Suggestions? -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 16:22, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
I agree, despite it being a year since this suggestion. I just came here to do some research and the article is a massive sprawl of confusing and hard to navigate text. -- Das Beta ( talk) 17:59, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I read once that the split of London in 1990 was the first split ever; that all previous area code changes had been mergers, combining small areas with short local numbers and long area codes into larger areas with longer local numbers (adding prefix digits) and shorter area codes. Is that accurate? What kinds of boundary changes have been done since 1990? (The only one I'm aware of is the re-merger of London.) — Tamfang ( talk) 18:21, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
What does 22 = AB et al. mean?-- 92.17.15.86 ( talk) 00:31, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
It's described on tons of anti-fraud websites how +44 70 numbers are used for international redirect calls. While I know it's as much about finding a good source (are anti fraud sites like Scamwarners or Joe Wein good enough?), then it should worth mentioning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:878:200:1051:90F3:DC4D:7B34:EC13 ( talk) 18:44, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
The section on emergency services on 999/112 listed these as including Mountain Rescue and Cave Rescue. These are not in fact directly handled by the emergency services operator, because calls to these services are instead managed by the police, and callers are recommended to ask first for the police and then for mountain rescue or cave rescue as applicable. So in principle, purely from the point of view of describing the operation of the phone number, we could simply delete all mention of these two services. However, while recognising the fact that Wikipedia is not a how-to manual, lives could actually be at stake, and it doesn't harm to say something. So I've changed it to:
... Police, Fire Service, Ambulance Service, and Coastguard. (Standard advice for Mountain Rescue or Cave Rescue is to ask the emergency operator for the police, who oversee the communication with these two services.)
Sadly, the emergency operators are not always 100% clued up, and people asking for mountain rescue have been known to be put through to Fire and Rescue, which is not appropriate for remote situations, so just adds delay.
Regards, Money money tickle parsnip ( talk) 01:42, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
It seems the section on mobile numbers is out of date. I've recently got a new UK mobile phone and been allocated an 073 number. The numbering plan at http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/telecoms/numbering/Numbering_Plan_July2015.pdf allocates "071 to 075 inclusive and 077 to 079 inclusive" to mobile services on page 11, but I’ve not been able to track down any more detail. Could someone more familiar with the relevant documents take a look please? 81.174.148.17 ( talk) 08:54, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
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Firstly, the (uncited) table that starts this section has "07xxx xxxxxx" in the column "10 digits". That number format has 11 digits.
Secondly, the term " National Significant Number" is used several times. That link redirects to E.164, which doesn't mention it at all. — Scott • talk 13:07, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Is there a source for the 119 Covid hotline added in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom&diff=954796876&oldid=954453730 ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:C106:8900:21BF:504:8ED4:82A ( talk) 17:56, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications/Area codes RfC regarding the notability of articles about individual area codes. Thryduulf ( talk) 18:46, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
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This section is definitely excessive detail for this article. What to do with it? Split it out as a 2003 area name changes article, or create a National Telephone Numbering Plan article and include it there? MRSC ( talk) 17:02, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Split - Article is long, and should be split, starting with the History section. Thoughts? Suggestions? -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 16:22, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
I agree, despite it being a year since this suggestion. I just came here to do some research and the article is a massive sprawl of confusing and hard to navigate text. -- Das Beta ( talk) 17:59, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I read once that the split of London in 1990 was the first split ever; that all previous area code changes had been mergers, combining small areas with short local numbers and long area codes into larger areas with longer local numbers (adding prefix digits) and shorter area codes. Is that accurate? What kinds of boundary changes have been done since 1990? (The only one I'm aware of is the re-merger of London.) — Tamfang ( talk) 18:21, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
What does 22 = AB et al. mean?-- 92.17.15.86 ( talk) 00:31, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
It's described on tons of anti-fraud websites how +44 70 numbers are used for international redirect calls. While I know it's as much about finding a good source (are anti fraud sites like Scamwarners or Joe Wein good enough?), then it should worth mentioning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:878:200:1051:90F3:DC4D:7B34:EC13 ( talk) 18:44, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
The section on emergency services on 999/112 listed these as including Mountain Rescue and Cave Rescue. These are not in fact directly handled by the emergency services operator, because calls to these services are instead managed by the police, and callers are recommended to ask first for the police and then for mountain rescue or cave rescue as applicable. So in principle, purely from the point of view of describing the operation of the phone number, we could simply delete all mention of these two services. However, while recognising the fact that Wikipedia is not a how-to manual, lives could actually be at stake, and it doesn't harm to say something. So I've changed it to:
... Police, Fire Service, Ambulance Service, and Coastguard. (Standard advice for Mountain Rescue or Cave Rescue is to ask the emergency operator for the police, who oversee the communication with these two services.)
Sadly, the emergency operators are not always 100% clued up, and people asking for mountain rescue have been known to be put through to Fire and Rescue, which is not appropriate for remote situations, so just adds delay.
Regards, Money money tickle parsnip ( talk) 01:42, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
It seems the section on mobile numbers is out of date. I've recently got a new UK mobile phone and been allocated an 073 number. The numbering plan at http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/telecoms/numbering/Numbering_Plan_July2015.pdf allocates "071 to 075 inclusive and 077 to 079 inclusive" to mobile services on page 11, but I’ve not been able to track down any more detail. Could someone more familiar with the relevant documents take a look please? 81.174.148.17 ( talk) 08:54, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
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Firstly, the (uncited) table that starts this section has "07xxx xxxxxx" in the column "10 digits". That number format has 11 digits.
Secondly, the term " National Significant Number" is used several times. That link redirects to E.164, which doesn't mention it at all. — Scott • talk 13:07, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Is there a source for the 119 Covid hotline added in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom&diff=954796876&oldid=954453730 ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:C106:8900:21BF:504:8ED4:82A ( talk) 17:56, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications/Area codes RfC regarding the notability of articles about individual area codes. Thryduulf ( talk) 18:46, 17 June 2023 (UTC)