Who you gonna call?


From the Rubbish Bond Gadgets challenge. See all 333 entries (closed)

( Haku is still addicted to Wispas, and trance music, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:40, archived)

who you gonna call?
james bond 007!

(adding 0208 (happy?) if you live outside london. call charges may vary if calling via a mobile phone)
( lazygamer losing weight by shitting profusely (22lbs so far), Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:42, archived)

Arf!
teh winnar
(ejolleys, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:42, archived)

please remove first zero if phoning from mobile
text 07000007007 for more information. texts cost £0.07p each
( Sargant, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:43, archived)

020
/telephone geek
( HP SPEEDCORE!, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:44, archived)

020 8
maybe.
( Sargant, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:45, archived)

don't live in london
and after last weekend, wouldn't want to
( lazygamer losing weight by shitting profusely (22lbs so far), Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:46, archived)

The 7 and 8 aren't actually part of the dialling code
020 is now the dialling code for London, the 7 and 8 have been incorporated into the local numbers.

*wanks across Sargant's telephone connection at exchange*
( HP SPEEDCORE!, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:47, archived)

i wondered what the point in all that was
cardiff became 029, and all local numbers are now eight digits beginning 20******. why bother with the 20 bit then?

edit: ha! i'm not there anymore. but you can wank over SSG's instead.
( Sargant, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:48, archived)

Because
Cardiff had six digit numbers. Now that the code is 029, the numbers are longer.

At the moment, everything is 20xxxxxx, but as the 20xxxxxx numbers are depleted, other number ranges can be assigned, but keeping the same dialling code, for example 30xxxxxx or 21xxxxxx.
( HP SPEEDCORE!, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:50, archived)

pointless tosh.
the day they need 100,000,000 phones in cardiff is the day i go live on the fucking moon.
( Sargant, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:51, archived)

No.
But the old system only allowed for 1,000,000 numbers, when you take into account people getting second lines, numbers which are unusable because they already start with a prefix used for something else (999xxx, 100xxx 0xxxxx etc) and the fact that certain ranges are assigned to certain operators, you cut down on your choices rather dramatically. For instance, BT may run out of 20xxxxxx numbers but NTL will still have some left, because certain ranges belong entirely to NTL, some are entirely BT.

Sorry, am I starting to scare people?
( HP SPEEDCORE!, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:58, archived)

no
please continue
( magoo, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 23:04, archived)

where are you anyway?
and what'cha doing there?
( evil pixie, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:50, archived)

you-knee-verse-city

( Sargant, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:52, archived)

yes i know that
i meant what course?
and you've still not told me where. you scared of stalkers or something?
( evil pixie, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:57, archived)

118 007?
im off now night everyone have a gooooood weekend catch you on the flip side home boy innit! BO!
( MONO! wants you to join his crew!, Fri 7 Nov 2003, 22:43, archived)