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Re: Lancaster University
Reply #75 - Oct 16^th, 2009 at 11:56am

dwayland wrote on Oct 16^th, 2009 at 11:51am:

I'm still not having any luck with this!
Recently moved into Graduate college, dial the 01524 514 and the last three digits of my internal extension number and it rings but its not my phone that's ringing!!! Any help would be appreciated for this poor student Tongue

Are you sure that your phone is activated (assuming you need to do such a thing) and ready to receive incoming calls? If you call your 0844 number from your mobile, does your landline ring?

Have you followed the advice above from Bens_Mum? Dial 01524 514 followed by the last three digits of your extension number? Out of interest, are the last few digits of your extension number the same as or different to the last few digits of your 0844 number?

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Reply #76 - Oct 16^th, 2009 at 12:58pm

You could try putting some money onto the 0844 number via 'Dog and Bone' or one of the other pre-paid services, although it shouldn't make any difference to the geographical number. Have you tried ringing your internal extension number from another extension within the University, to check that it actually works? If you have done both of these, keep trying the number and see who eventually answers. Ask them their extension number and see if any of it matches. Without giving too much away, roughly whereabouts are you within Grad College? There are numerous different types of rooms and even houses, so maybe that's the reason it worked for us and not for you.

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Re: Lancaster University
Reply #77 - Dec 2^nd, 2009 at 2:23pm

dwayland wrote on Oct 16^th, 2009 at 11:51am:

I'm still not having any luck with this!
Recently moved into Graduate college, dial the 01524 514 and the last three digits of my internal extension number and it rings but its not my phone that's ringing!!! Any help would be appreciated for this poor student Tongue

There may be more than one range of numbers in use, with a different geographical prefix. After all, the number above only gives 999 combinations (just because it's the same college doesn't mean it uses adjacent numbers). Does your internal number also begin 58***?

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Reply #78 - Oct 17^th, 2011 at 8:37pm

I know this post has been inactive for a while but it as it was very useful for me to find my geographical phone number, so I would like to add more information. To help other people to get their numbers or break the pattern. Cool

Like Bens_Mum's son I am in Graduate College and my phone number also begins with 084430762. However, the prefix that worked for me was 01524 513 (not 01524 514, as for her), also followed by the last 3 digits of my internal extension number (like it worked for her).

So it seems that the geographical number should be:

01524 51X*** where X could be 3, 4 or other numbers; and *** are the last 3 digits of internal extension.

I'll let you know if I find out more examples with my classmates.

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Re: Lancaster University
Reply #79 - Oct 18^th, 2011 at 8:33pm

What might be the key to crack the pattern are the first 2 digits of the internal extension, for example Ben_Mum's son extension was 58*** and the prefix was 514. Mine is 57*** and my prefix is 513. I have tested this ringing a few classmates and it works.

So it seems the geographical number is:

for internal extensions:

- 57ABC --> 01524 513ABC
- 58ABC --> 01524 514ABC
- 9ABCD --> 01524 59ABCD (usually office numbers)

I haven't discovered the geographical number for internal extensions starting with 55 yet. I have tried 01524 51XABC with X from 0 to 9 and it does not seem to work.

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Re: Lancaster University
Reply #80 - Oct 19^th, 2011 at 11:21am

ptz wrote on Oct 18^th, 2011 at 8:33pm:

What might be the key to crack the pattern are the first 2 digits of the internal extension, for example Ben_Mum's son extension was 58*** and the prefix was 514. Mine is 57*** and my prefix is 513. I have tested this ringing a few classmates and it works.

So it seems the geographical number is:

for internal extensions:

- 57ABC --> 01524 513ABC
- 58ABC --> 01524 514ABC
- 9ABCD --> 01524 59ABCD (usually office numbers)

I haven't discovered the geographical number for internal extensions starting with 55 yet. I have tried 01524 51XABC with X from 0 to 9 and it does not seem to work.

Hello and welcome to SAYNOTO0870.COM.

Thanks for posting this; it should help others with the same query.

Something else for you to try:

All number prefixes are allocated to a particular communications provider. For example, 07802 is O2. The same is true of geographic numbers.

01524 51 is Your Communications and 01524 59 is BT. The office system and residential halls system may be provided by different companies which would explain why they use geographic numbers allocated to different operators.

For this reason, I'd focus on looking for the numbers in the Your Communications blocks prefixed with the Lancaster STD code which are: 50, 51, 52.

You've shown how the internal extensions map to the geographic numbers; could you show how the 08 numbers relate to them as well? This will help people dialling in who don't know the extension number, but do know the 08 number.

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