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- WHAT IS PHONEDAY?
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- OFTEL, the Government's telecommunications regulator, has decided that the UK
- area codes should be changed to meet the increasing demand for new codes and
- numbers.
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- The changes will take place at 1am on the morning of 16 April 1996 - Phoneday.
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- From that day, the number 1 will be inserted after the initial 0 in the UK
- area codes. So, for example, the code for Manchester, 061, will become 0161.
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- At the same time, five cities that have a particularly urgent need for more
- telephone numbers will be given completely new codes and a digit will be
- inserted before each local number.
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- The new codes and numbers for each city are:
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- Leeds 0532 XXXXXX becomes 0113 2XX XXXX
- Sheffield 0742 XXXXXX becomes 0114 2XX XXXX
- Nottingham 0602 XXXXXX becomes 0115 9XX XXXX
- Leicester 0533 XXXXXX becomes 0116 2XX XXXX
- Bristol 0272 XXXXXX becomes 0117 9XX XXXX
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- Certain codes, such as those for `premium rate' services (0898 etc.), and
- those for mobile phones do not change.
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- Furthermore, the international code changes from 010 to 00 in order to
- harmonise this across Europe.
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- The Psion Phoneday Tools are a set of three applications designed to
- make the transition as easy as possible. They're also meant to be
- self-explanatory, so just install them and you're well away.
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