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Although BE's services were initially only available in selected parts of London, Manchester and Birmingham, it underwent a programme of rapid expansion across the UK making it available in at least 1,256 of the UK's telephone exchanges by 2012. [7] [8]
All-figure dialling was a telephone numbering plan introduced in the United Kingdom starting in 1966 that replaced the traditional system of using initial letters of telephone exchange names as the first part of a telephone number. [1]
More recently, [when?] telephone companies are charging subscribers for every directory assistance call. [citation needed] U.S. wireline telephone companies classify DA into four rate classes: 411 LDA: Local Directory Assistance. 411 is dialed, and the operator is requested to search for a listing in a group of area codes local to the caller ...
KCOM Group (formerly known as Kingston Communications and latterly KC) is a UK communications and IT services provider.Its headquarters are in the city of Kingston upon Hull, and it serves local residents and businesses with Internet and telephony services.
On 5 January 1999, Vodafone UK connected its 5 millionth customer. By the end of 1999 it had 8 million customers, [8] rising to 12 million in 2001. [9] The first 3G voice call in the UK was made in April 2001 on the Vodafone UK network, with an initial network of 30 base stations in the Thames Valley set for the commercial launch in 2002. [10]
Talking Telephone Numbers is a British game show that aired on ITV from 28 February 1994 to 29 December 1997 and was hosted by Phillip Schofield and initially Emma Forbes, who was later replaced by Claudia Winkleman. The show's format featured variety acts which were used to generate numbers.
The company was founded in 1996 as a telecommunications business. Its first product, launched in 1997, was a least cost call routing 'Smart Box', a gadget that plugs into a phone socket and routes the calls to alternative networks at a cheaper rate than British Telecom. [2] In 2017 the company sold its 20% stake in Opus Energy to Drax Group. [3]
Promotional Mercury Communications hot air balloon featuring inflatable "payphone", 1994. In 1981, Mercury Communications Ltd – a consortium of Cable & Wireless, Barclays, and BP – was founded as an experiment in telecommunications competition, primarily to compete with British Telecom.