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  Kieran Ray August 8, 2011 at 10:42am

  Most of the "companies" around here with 0800 numbers are the pickeys! So unfortunately its a big no no!
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  Geoffrey King August 10, 2011 at 9:10am

  If you wanted to test your theory, buy a number with the other STD codes and see if makes a difference

   

  http://www.voipfone.co.uk/EP_UK_Telephone_Numbers.php

   

  What is a Geographic Number?

   

  Geographic numbers are the normal way of numbering landlines and denote your location. So that in the old telecommunication world, a 0207 number is fixed to Central London and a 01273 number is fixed to Brighton.

   

  For £2 per month you can choose to have a UK Geographic number. This allows people to call you from UK landlines and mobiles at the standard rates for their telephone service.

   

  Calls to your Geographic number from other Voipfone customers are free.

   

  However, with Internet Telephony you can choose ANY geographical number, no matter where you are actually located. You could even take a Birmingham number and be actually in Calcutta. It’s worth repeating, calls to this number from any landline in the UK will only be charged at normal UK rates – even if the call does finally finish up in Calcutta! And, of course, if the number is called by another Voipfone customer, the call is totally free.

   

  There are many uses for these numbers; the obvious one being that a business can have a prestigious telephone address whilst being somewhere else entirely. You can also now move your office to anywhere in the world and keep this telephone number.

   For the personal user, it means that if you have moved abroad but still have family in the you could take a number for the town your relative lives in, they can then make ordinary calls to you, no Matter where in the world you are, for the cost of a local call.
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  Gary RK August 10, 2011 at 10:15am

  We found the same thing with post codes (which probably 'overlap' the area codes as well), esp some of the GUxx post codes in Surrey.

   

  A client of ours that recently moved fought hard for a new phone number with a certain couple of digits after the area code as the new numbers being given out indicated they lived a less desirable area around here !