SilentCallsVictim wrote on Dec 7^th, 2008 at 12:46am:


No it is not bound by it and nor are any of this site's individual members.  Anyhow as Ofcom/Oftel has so frequently disregarded the principles of its own National Telephone Number Plan in allocating numbers or enabling covert revenue sharing (as dorf has always been so keen to remind us)  why on earth should we worry about a few minor breaches.  Don't forget that Ofcom can't even manage to get telcos to abide by its own General Conditions regarding phone bills in terms of properly describing various call types to customers (eg misusing using the terms, Lo-Call, Local Rate and National Rate for higher cost NTS numbers).

Surely having phone numbers that can be dialled but that are meant to be kept secret is a pretty nonsensical idea in the first place.  It only exists because of the very absurdity of people trying to charge extra for what should only be normal standard priced phone calls.

Pardon the delay, I must change the password here so I can remember it and login elsewhere...

The 02 0200 number was in a spiritual magazine in a huge ad. I initially thought it must be from abroad but no, it was a real number as I have the codebook. Then I googled and found Avenue House, a Barnet Borough agency for volunteers, advertise it on their website. Very odd.

"resilience/dual parenting"

Please translate!

I think that it may be something of a paranoid myth that these numbers are supposed to be secret and used only as targets for 0845 and other non-geographic numbers, though I note the old Oftel reference that NGM found.

I've occasionally noticed London numbers in 020 1~ and 020 0~ for 3 or 4 years, and indeed I had one of the latter myself briefly in summer 2005, which together with that 0200 callthrough to freephone numbers could be called quite normally from a BT landline and from 3 different mobile networks I tried.