Origins. The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local councils. But by 1912–13 all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull and Guernsey had been bought out by the Post Office.The Post Office also operated telephone services in Jersey until 1923 and the Isle of Man until 1969 when the islands took …

This article appears to contradict the article Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom. Please see discussion on the linked talk page. (May 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message. In the UK, letters were assigned to numbers in a similar fashion to North America, except that the letter O was allocated to the digit 0 (zero ...

A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reachable by a system of destination code routing. Telephone numbering plans are defined in each of the administrative regions of …

This is a list of dialling codes for telephones in the United Kingdom.Dialling codes are the basis for the national telephone numbering plan.They are prefixed to all telephone numbers, generally depending on the type of number and its geographic location. The numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom, which is an independent communications authority.This list is based on the official …

Some countries use other emergency telephone numbers, sometimes also depending on the emergency service. The emergency numbers in the world (but not necessarily all of them) are listed below: ... local numbers only: 8119 ... United Kingdom: 999 or 112: Non-emergency police - 101; Power outages - 105; Non-emergency health issues - 111; COVID-19 ...

United Kingdom. Phone sex lines appeared in the UK in the 1980s using premium-rate telephone numbers for adult services with sexual content, with many of the lines playing tape recordings. The phone sex market in the UK was closely linked to the pornographic magazine market, and advertising for such services often provides a vital element of a ...