Originally Posted by *MikeB*:
“The area codes in my area seem to have no rhyme nor reason anyway to be honest! There's no real pattern as far as town names goes. ”
Strange! Where I now live (and where I was before) BT have used the prefixes '5', '6, '7, and '8' to indicate diferent towns in the same area code.
Looking at the OFCOM allocations (above in this thread!) it is actually more complex than that. BT actually only have '51'->'55' in the '5' range for example.
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“All I can say is, in my area BT Wholesale and Sky use 648.... and TalkTalk use 5 something. So it must vary area to area then. New cable numbers start with 2 here also.
Sky definitely aren't using their own numbers here.”
They cannot be using BT's (for new supply!). Most Sky numbers will, of course, be former BT ones!
The OFCOM document makes it all clear!