Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: London code split Message-ID: Date: 11 May 89 02:10:07 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 160, message 8 of 8 As most of you know, the dialing code for London from within the UK is 01 (the real city code being just the 1, of course). This is reflected in the title of a TV show over there: "01 For London". And this is why the place where I learned that that code is being split was in an entertainment magazine! They were remarking that the producers of that show would have to find a new title for it. If I understood the piece correctly, rather than the system used in places like New York where the more "central" area gets to retain the old, easily dialed and remembered, code, in London the 01 will be abolished altogether; part of the area will become 071 and the rest 081. This is to happen on May 6, 1990. Mark Brader "A hundred billion is *not* infinite SoftQuad Inc., Toronto and it's getting less infinite all the time!" utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com -- Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"