020

[BarcodeZebra]

Is the dialing code for London. Not 0207 or 0208. Jesus Christ! You LIVE there! You can't dial someone else in London using just seven digits. You HAVE to use eight. Therefore the dialing code is 020.

AAAARRFRGGGGHHH!

And breathe....

Hmmm... thought I had misjudged her for a second when I found the correct 020 code used on some other web sites, in Jan and March 2011, and when working at Deloitte. Even started to word a text to that effect, and then found the PricewaterhouseCoopers Media Centre info.

She presumably submitted details or had chance to correct the details on the PwC web page (she is under her own heading, covering Technology, Telecoms, etc) and my text was deleted without sendig once I saw she is the only one with 0207

Some others have gone for 020 7 21x xxxx (better than 0207 at least!) and one has +44 (you'll always get one :)

No, I am not BarcodeZebra - why be confused by a fresh post on misuse of 020x in this (admittedly old) thread ?

I have set up websites I use to point (IDIOT) Media types at showing the correct prefixes for a number of different locations. By now most cope with 0121, 0131, etc up to 0191, but there are others, 0113, 0114 etc and 02x numbers, where there are often shop signs and similar showing the wrong spacing.

I was confused because the first post was by BZ, and I haven't seen him here for months, nay years.

@NetworkGuy Could this be defined as misleading advertising?

www.google.com/search?num=100&q=london+0207

Certainly those which claim "Inner London" or "Central London" as part of their sales pitch may be described as misleading, and could now be reported to the ASA for it.

Seems pretty poor that firms that should know better are plugging "0207" numbers.

Ah! I'm so pleased that this has rumbled on without me for almost three years.

They've learnt nothing in that time of course and the ignorant jackanapes are still up to their cocksure 0207 & 0208 high jinks.

Crazy cockneys!

I like you NetworkGuy. You're my kind of chap.

Some people in London have a clue: phonecodes.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/is-020-starting-to-sink-in/

and some people in Cardiff do not: phonecodes.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/o-two-nine-two-woe-for-cardiff/

"We have the same problem in Nottingham."

And Sheffield. I guess it is how you are used to saying/using your number. I grew up in Greater London when the number was 01 plus 7 digits, and moved to Yorkshire before the numbers changed. When I ring my family the phone numbers are ingrained in my brain as a 7 figure number, so I always think of 0207 plus 7 digits and nothing is going to change that.

"great nancing London types who obviously are superior to me by virtue of geography"
This made me grin.

On the subject of phone numbers, I am irritated when people say the group of numbers incorrectly. 'Ere, in the provinces, we have a 5-digit code, followed by a 6-digit number. This should be read aloud in one group of 5 followed by two groups of three thus: "01234, 567, 891" with a suitable pause between groups. My mobile number follows the same pattern.
Some people seem ignorant of this basic fact, and read out weird, incomprehensible groups of digits like "012, 345, 568, 91" It doesn't even sound like a phone number.

The area code for Bedford is 01234.

And in France phone numbers are read out in pairs so 123456 would be twelve thirty four fifty six.

"'Ere, in the provinces, we have a 5-digit code, followed by a 6-digit number.'"

Technically, it's a '0' for network access followed by a 4-digit code and 6-digit number. Ofcom and others refer to your type of number as '4+6' (mainly 'cus the '0' isn't dialled from abroad).

There are some 5-digit area codes, but these have a 5-digit or 4-digit number.

London numbers are 2+8. :-)

www.aa-asterisk.org.uk/index.php/Number_Format
www.aa-asterisk.org.uk/index.php/01_numbers
www.aa-asterisk.org.uk/index.php/Mixed_areas