looking for an alternative number for 0870214****
its used at crewe uni in an accommadation room

~ Edited by Dave: Thread title amended

Riiiight.
I know that Crewe is 01270 but do you have any other information, please? Crewe uni website, name of operator, any sightings of geog numbers and so on?

crewe uni website is http://www.cheshire.mmu.ac.uk/index-noflash.php don't no who the operator is as the number is  flat in the halls of residence sorry thats all the info i have

OK, Tks. So where is the campus? Crewe? Alsager? All with 0161 247 numbers?
None of us has a crystal ball, but sometimes the more experienced and erudite (other) members are able to assist.

robbo wrote on Sep 25^th, 2007 at 9:19pm:

… don't no who the operator is as the number is  flat in the halls of residence …

Are you a student? If not, can you ask who is the provider/operator? The person whos flat it is must know who they pay for service.  :-?

For starters, I assume that the 0870 number is a direct number to one particular flat. The prefix 0870 214 is allocated to Affiniti Integrated Solutions, a part of Kingston Communications. Change date is given as 09/2003.

Within the Crewe code (01270), Affiniti have two prefixes:

01270 01 (08/2003)
01270 86 (06/2000)

The first one is a "national dialling only" number because the local number begins with a 0. Therefore, the 01270 code must be dialled, even from a phone with a 01270 number. However, there have been reports that some of these national dialling only numbers cannot be dialled from some phones including BT lines. Apparently they can be called from NTL (Virgin Media) landlines and Orange mobiles.

Try the prefix with last four digits of the internal extension number. This may differ from the last four digits of the 0870 number.

thanks for your help i'll check that out

robbo wrote on Sep 27^th, 2007 at 8:41am:

thanks for your help i'll check that out

Please let us know what you find; whether it works or whether it doesn't and what you've tried. You can ** out the last two digits.