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localhost Newbie Offline Posts: 2	Dial-up ISPs with geographical numbers Apr 21^st, 2004 at 1:30pm Hello all, i'm new to this site so 'hello everyone!'. I'm trying to find an ISP, any ISP that i can call from my mobile starting with the numbers 01. if anyone could help i'd be most appreciative, thanks, local ~ Threads merged and title edited by Dave*
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Re: anyone know any ISP's starting with 01 - thank
Reply #1 - Apr 21^st, 2004 at 5:01pm

Have a go with these, all gleaned from this site:-

BTInternet. 0121 4789200
Virgin Net. 01483 881766
Tesco Net. 01256 758717
Pipex. 0207 9061000
Easynet. 0207 9001111

I realise that the last two are 02 but I guess that you meant "Geo" numbers instead of "Non-Geo" numbers.
I haven't had a chance to try them out myself yet but I hope to soon.

Please leave a message here on the site if you test it with your mobile phone and get it working OK. I'm sure that others would like to try it as well.

Anyone else got any ISP Dial-up numbers PLEASE!
I'm STILL looking for the Brightview (Freenetname and Waitrose) Dial-up number if anyone can help.

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localhost Newbie Offline Posts: 2	Re: anyone know any ISP's starting with 01 - thank Reply #2 - Apr 23^rd, 2004 at 11:13am Thanks Dave, I'll try some of those numbers very soon. If i come accross any more i'll post them on here. thanks again, *local
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Andy Cole Guest	Re: anyone know any ISP's starting with 01 - thank Reply #3 - May 9^th, 2004 at 10:47pm Eurobell 01293 440312
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Reply #4 - Jul 19^th, 2004 at 10:53pm

Doesn't BT have a whole lost of these numbers?

I remember dialling the BT internet 0121 number and getting charged 6p per hour, although they decided before they sent my bill that they would charge me for the standard rate rather than the discounted 6p per hour one that I was entitled to and so I got a rather large bill Angry

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Re: anyone know any ISP's starting with 01 - thank
Reply #5 - Jul 20^th, 2004 at 2:09am

Yes, BT have a list of the ISP's as you'd expect, and they penalise anyone on the inclusive plans by charging the normal price. If you're lucky, you may get away with the 5.5p/hour rate, but probably you'll end up paying full whack. Undecided

If you have one of the other Telco's it is totally different, and you'd find your inclusive plan will allow all calls to 01 and 02 prefix ISPs.
You could always try using 18866 at ½p/minute, but I suggest changing to someone like OneTel would be the best.

Hope that helps.

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Reply #6 - Aug 2^nd, 2004 at 1:03am

The basic idea of these numbers is that they translate to geographic numbers, so does this cover these Internet numbers aswell?

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BTInternet. 0121 4789200

As Broadband seems to be down here at the mo, I've tried this number and it connects (username and password verifies OK). It won't download any data though! I've tried some successive numbers and they give invalid username or password. 0121 4789300 verifies username and password, but won't allow any data to be downloaded. Anyone tried anymore of these numbers sucessfully?

Are these numbers really exempt from BT Together?

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Reply #7 - Aug 2^nd, 2004 at 1:16am

Just found this page which says that 0121 478 9300 is for ISDN.

It also says that CLI is required. As these numbers are for international use (because 0845 can't be dialled from abroad), maybe they block any calls from the UK (+44).

I've just found this page on BT's site which confirms that these numbers are excluded from the so called "discount" packages. Lips Sealed

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BTInternet. 0121 4789200
Virgin Net. 01483 881766
Tesco Net. 01256 758717
Pipex. 0207 9061000
Easynet. 0207 9001111

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Eurobell 01293 440312

All of the above are listed on the ISP exclusion list. Lips Sealed

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Re: anyone know any ISP's starting with 01 - thank
Reply #8 - Aug 3^rd, 2004 at 2:51am

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All of the above are listed on the ISP exclusion list.

I don't care if they're on BT's exclusion list or not. It doesn't matter if you don't have a BT inclusive account & I would guess that most of you with any sense have found a better deal. My call providers' inclusive plan allows ALL 01/02 calls.
Alternatively you could use 18866 with these numbers on a BT line and thereby reduce the cost.

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Just found this page which says that 0121 478 9300 is for ISDN.

I use the 0121 4789200 (& the others) on ISDN and modem (for the moment . . . changing to ADSL SOON !! Grin

) and they work fine. I'll test the new number though to see it's any better on my ISDN line.

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Reply #9 - Aug 10^th, 2004 at 11:36pm

I can confirm that Talktalk charge off peak calls to the Virgin Net (mentioned above) geographic number at the fixed rate of 5 pence per minute. By putting this number as a Calling Circle number and as a Prime Number, you can get 70 minutes of off peak sufing for 3.75 pence. Combine this with 18866's daytime rate of 0.5 pence per minute and who would go for an unlimited dial up package?

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tony900r Newbie Offline Posts: 3	land lines for ISPs Reply #10 - Oct 1^st, 2004 at 5:28pm Anyone had any success getting their ISP's land line to use to connect to instead of the 08xx number? ???
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Re: land lines for ISPs
Reply #11 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 1:55am

I recently had to re-test the ISP numbers since Virgin decided to change theirs.

These are the results that I found from various sources & many thanks to those that provided the info.

AngliaNet	01473 407010	X
AOL	020 83387444	X
Ars€nalNet	020 78966787	@
BreatheNet	020 78966787	@
BTConnect	0121 7629011	#
BTInternet	0121 4789200	#
BTInternet	0121 4789300	#
Cable Internet	020 79166550	#
Cable & Wireless	020 84900577	X
CallnetUK	01344 102013	@
CanaryConnect	01223 509047	&
ClaraNet	020 79066161	X
ClaraNet	020 79055151	X
Compuserve	020 75795100	#
Connect4Free	01344 102013	@
Demon	020 76640666	X
Easynet	0207 9001111	#
Egg	020 78966787	@
EidosNet	020 79001111	#
Eurobell	01392 204203	#
Eurobell	01293 440312	#
Express Online	020 77155820	X
FreeDotNet	020 86366000	X
Gateway	020 79061000	#
LineOne	020 77155820	X
ManUFree.net	020 79061000	#
Netcom	01603 444446	X
Netgates	0117 9073000	X
Orange.net	020 79061000	#
Photoshot	020 79061000	#
Pipex	020 79061000	#
Sniff Out	01344 102013	@
Tesco.net	01256 758717	#
TheFreeInternet	020 86367399	X
U-Net	01925 491111	X
Virgin.net	01483 881766	&
Wanadoo/Freeserve	0808 9916001	# £
Wanadoo/Freeserve	0808 9916080	# £
Wanadoo/Freeserve	0808 9916163	# £
Wanadoo/Freeserve	0808 9916164	# £
Zetnet	0161 3330005	#

#	Works OK
@	Constantly Busy
X	No longer functional
&	Rings but NO Answer
£	Must be prefixed with 1470 to reveal your Caller ID (if you have it with-held)

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triggerhippie Newbie Offline Posts: 2	Re: land lines for ISPs Reply #12 - Oct 6^th, 2004 at 10:46am Hi there Maybe I am wrong but I have just signed up for EidosNet and their website www.eidosnet.co.uk give the 0845 number which connects OK but the landline specified does not. Has anyone had this problem/got a workaround for this ? Many thanks Adeel
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Re: land lines for ISPs
Reply #13 - Oct 6^th, 2004 at 5:14pm

One reason for this is that, as you can see from the list above, some numbers are used by multiple ISP's.

This means that to keep domains separate, you have to include in the login ID the domain you are associated with. I won't get too technical but that's the simple version. For example . . .

fbloggs@easynet.co.uk

or

fbloggs@eidosnet.co.uk

That's how it works with the larger providers such as Brightview who supply many ISP services.

See if that works for you. Grin

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Reply #14 - Oct 13^th, 2004 at 10:42pm

Ok, so I'm being super picky and begging to be flamed but........

...any possibility of including the links to the list as some are impossible to sign up to (poor home page design !)

Just a thought. Wink

(Incidentally, I tried eidosnet again but again with no success. Has anyone else tried setting up a new account here ?

The only difference that I can see is that I am using a different dialup number. My account login name is sofia.surname@eidosnet.co.uk in both attempts)

I have also tried to sign up to tesco.net but they ask for my CC ?!

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