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London Telephone Region
The London Telephone Region was an administrative unit of Post Office Telephones in Britain formed in 1936. It comprised all of the London Telephone Area (the area covered by the 01 telephone area code at the time) plus the charging groups adjacent, for example: the Romford Charge Group, comprising Hornchurch, Ingrebourne, Purfleet, Rainham, Romford, South Ockendon, Stapleford and Upminster telephone exchange areas. The LTR was divided into Areas, such as East and North. East area included the Romford charging group, as above, plus the east sector of the London Telephone Area 020 is the national dialling code for London in the United Kingdom. All subscriber numbers within the area code consist of eight digits and it has capacity for approaching 100 million telephone numbers. The code is used at 170 telephone exch .... References External links see http://www.btplc.com/thegroup/btshistory/btgrouparchives/majorcollections/british_phone_books_final2013_01.pdf History of tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Telephone Area
020 is the national dialling code for London in the United Kingdom. All subscriber numbers within the area code consist of eight digits and it has capacity for approaching 100 million telephone numbers. The code is used at 170 telephone exchanges in and around Greater London as part of the largest linked numbering scheme in the United Kingdom. In common with all other British area codes the initial '0' is a trunk prefix that is not required when dialling London from abroad. The 020 area code fully replaced older area codes for London on 22 April 2000, following multiple telephone number changes during the 1990s.020 could be used from 1 June 1999 and the previous 0171 and 0181 codes could no longer be used from 22 April 2000. As is the case for other codes in the UK, the 020 area code may also be used for services without any physical presence in the area, such as private networks or virtual numbering. As one such user is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Telecommunications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
