I believe that this is an NEG installation as the number begins 0844 477. Others who have NEG have similar numbers. This prefix is allocated to Opal Telecom, a part of Carphone Warehouse.
Opal Telecom don't appear to have an allocation in every STD code that NEG operates, so I wonder who's numbers they will be. The NEG website doesn't appear to give anything away as to who they use for their telecoms.
The only clue (if it is one) is on the
About Us page. When you hover over the Cable Telecom logo, it says "Cable Telecom Plc are part of the Network Europe Group."
When you go to the
Cable Telecom website it redirects you to
Telstra Europe, with the message "As part of our ongoing company integration the
Cable Telecom website has been incorporated at:
www.telstra.co.uk"
So what is/was the connection to Cable Telecom? It seems pretty sloppy, to say the least, of NEG that they have Cable Telecom as part of their Group. Or has NEG bought Telstra and forgotten to update the website?
For those who don't know,
Telstra is Australia's state-owned telecoms provider, a bit like what BT was in the UK.
It appears that issues caused by private monopoly telecommunications services are not peculiar to the UK;
Citizens Against Selling Telstra, although Telstra apparently makes a profit for the state, unlike BT.
Do they (now Telstra) provide the telecoms for NEG? I notice that Telstra Europe seem to have an allocation of geographical numbers in the areas that have 'NEGed' surgeries. So is it a Telstra number(s) that this surgery uses? The prefix is 01293 93, so just 10,000 numbers to try then...