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From: tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham)
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Subject: Re: Phone Service in the UK Two Decades Ago
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Date: 5 Dec 90 16:45:40 GMT
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In article <15108@accuvax.nwu.edu> BMITCHEL@gtri01.gatech.edu (Barry
Mitchell) writes:

>Where else can you order a pizza from a cellular
>phone while driving home and have the delivery person be there waiting
>on you when you arrive home?

Well, the only things that might stop you doing that in the UK are
either living in a pizza wilderness or the pizza people having a
toll-free number.  My phone number is always the same whether I'm
calling from next door, from the other end of the country, or from a
cellphone. So is everybody else's. I can optionally leave off the area
code from within the area, and sometimes there are local (shorter)
codes from one area to adjoining areas, but you can *always* use the
Standard Trunk Dialling area code.  Yes, and International Direct
Dialling to 140-odd countries is available from every phone.

The only limitation I can think of, offhand, is that you can't phone
0800 (toll-free) numbers from a cellphone. Our local pizza emporia
don't have 0800 numbers.


Tim Oldham, BT Applied Systems. tjo@its.bt.co.uk or ...uunet!ukc!its!tjo