greatgreydogs wrote on Oct 4^th, 2007 at 2:47pm:

Website for Uni-Tel is www.unitel.co.uk

From terms and conditions:

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This suggests that it's still operated by the same company. Interestingly, Dog n Bone Zone still appears to exist.

http://www.dognbonezone.co.uk/

My email to Unitel from their website bounced back as Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table

All internal numbers are exactly the same as they were last year. It's the student external numbers, routed through this company which have changed.
Last year with Dog n Bone the internal numbers (student rooms)  were the same as the external Dog n Bone numbers apart from the last couple of figures.
This year they still have the same internal number as last year for the same room but the external numbers have changed completely.
I will try your suggestion as soon as he's back in his room today.

Do you mean the actual physical phones in the rooms? Yes they are the same and all the external numbers for staff and departments which have an 01524 code at University are the same.

Well I just tried 01524 plus 880 plus the last 3 digits of the internal number
01524880 plus the last 3 digits of the external number
0152488 plus the last 4 digits of internal AND external numbers and got number not recognised or else complete silence; not even a ringtone. and 01524880 plus the last 4 digits of each number; internal and external and again, number not recognised.

My son is at Lancaster and I have tried the various codes this afternoon, including 01524 88, 01534 50, 01524 51 (I did get a reply on this but it wasn't my son's room) and 01524 52, but no luck. The number is 0844 307 62.. Anyone got any more to try?

Bens_Mum wrote on Oct 8^th, 2008 at 1:59pm:

I presume you are trying 01524 xx yyyy where xx is 88, 50, 51 etc and yyyy are the last four digits of the 0844 number and your son's internal extension number, if they are different? Are they different? Or are the last couple of digits the same?

It is not forced to be the last four digits (of internal extension or 0844) which go onto the prefix. The numbers may have been shifted by so many thousand or hundred.

For example, if the internal extension number is 51234, try 01524 xx0234, 01524 xx1234, 01524 xx2234 through to 01524 xx9234.

Make a note of what answers etc. If any answer you might like to ask them whether they are in the university's halls. If the answer is yes, then you are getting warm and you know that the number you are looking for is within a block of however many numbers they have. A clue to the number of numbers they have in the block is how many rooms they have, assuming all have one phone.

In other cases, we have found that only the last two digits of the outside number match those of the extension or 0844/0870 number.

The number 01524 51???? which you got an answer on, is it a room in the unversity's halls? Or is it a business?

Bens_Mum wrote on Oct 8^th, 2008 at 2:47pm:

In which case, if you are right and it is a student room and it is the accommodation your son is in (not necessarily the same site), then you have found the block of numbers.

Try calling some numbers around that number and see what the response is. Engage the receiver in conversation and see if you can get them to tell you their internal extension number. If it is the right accommodation and you have a pair of outside number and extension number, then it will probably be a simple exercise to work out your son's number.

It should also be noted that you can "bribe" the person who answers into co-operating with the offer of their geographical alternative number! Or perhaps they like to keep the 08 number to deter their parents from calling...