The last couple of days when I have checked my phone for missed calls there is a number left ...01234...........any ideas what this is?

Hey there, i have been searching on google for some answers and found this site out. It has numbers starting with 01234 but ends with other numbers, maybe this might help?.

http://www.bedford.ac.uk/contact/contactnumbers

Hmmm strange........I dunno if its a test or something but thats all it is 01234 no numbers after it

Do you know someone who might have a number starting with 01234? there might of been an error at there end or something.

i have also had these weird calls (01234)

ah at least we know someone else is getting it, sounds like its a dodgy company who is trying to get hold of you. When i say dodgy company i mean evil company.

Isn't 01234 reading?

Nope Reading is 01189

Handy tool for looking up numbers here-

http://www.ukphoneinfo.com/section/tci/locator.shtml

http://www.magsys.co.uk/ has a code look-up section - it says that 01234 is a normal geographical number for the Bedford area.

Reading is 0118

Common mistake to make as when the STD code changed from 01734 the powers that be added a 9 prefix to everyones number to make them 7 digit.

NTL cable subscribers in Reading however have numbers starting 0118 3

Wonder if there is a company in the Bedford area who have screwed up the programming of the CLI they send from their switchboard?

Most modern switches allow you to programme any number you like into the "public" CLI field - by that I mean the one that gets displayed on the recipients phone. Maybe someone forgot to add the rest of the number or added a space between the STD code and the number - I've known that truncate the CLI dispalyed.