Where is dialling code 01242

The local dialling issue is easily resolved by software in most VoIP phones already, where it recognises the number is dialled without an area code and simply inserts a default area code in the background, which can be set to whatever is relevant to the person and their location. On our VoIP phone we dial local numbers without the area code and it works like usual. If you lived in Cheltenham with dialling code of , and move to VoIP keeping your same number, you would set up a dialling rule so that if no dialling code is entered it prefixes with automatically, ergo, it works like your landline of yesterday, keeping the concept of local numbers.

No different really to what the electronics in the exchange is doing, just now with VoIP the exchange equipment is essentially in our own homes. The 0xxxxx, 1xxxxx and xxx ranges in every exhange will become available, without the user having to remember that a local number is either locally diallable or has to be dialled in the National Dialling Only format for the few number ranges that have been released for National Dialling Only.

I imagine trying to remove it on the legacy PSTN network would be technically challenging. Technically they were in breach of the current Ofcom regulations as support of local dialling was mandatory. There has been no shortage of numbers for decades ever since the standard number lenghth was increased to 11 dgits. What is local anyway? Where I am there are two other area codes within a 4 mile radius and a further one less than 9 miles away.

We never used the new number that was assigned and we have now cancelled that and have an SOGEA service for our internet. By a natural process of churn and people moving but keeping their old numbers including local dialling code because they are VoIP, and as older generations depart our world and new ones arrive, dialling codes will no longer be something that indicates where the phone is located and people will just not pay any attention to the code or even realise it used to signify something.

As it stands I live in area with an elderly population, you ask for a neighbours phone number and you get 6 digits. So youll have to dial all 10 or 11 digits just to call your neighbour. The long-standing residents of our village still give out the last 3 digits of their numbers. Some areas, such as Milton Keynes, already have this in place. So lessons learned in those areas already done should guide this.

Why did they not simply allocate a shorter area code and lengthen the local numbers to 7 digits, as was done in the past? There is plenty of scope for allocating new area coses in 02 space, currently only half used.

Everyone needs to update their address books, and companies need to get signs re-made and stationary re-printed. As do Voipfone. The warnings are mainly for customers in other countries. Many countries ban emergency calls from Skype and others. PSTN still has the benefit of continuing to work even when the power is out…. You will need to use a dialling code if you are calling from a mobile phone or a landline outside of the Cheltenham dialling code area.

If you are calling a local number within the same area code with a landline telephone you do not need to use the dialling code. If you are calling from outside of the UK. You will need to add the code for dialling internationally.

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