Shouldn't numbers on the site be formatted correctly, eg 020 7xxx xxxx for London, instead of eg 0207 xxxxxxx. London has eight-digit local numbers with the area code of 020.

Owain

No.  What is the correct format?

Londoners have a 3-digit STD (area) code (020) and 8-digit ‘local’ numbers = an 11-digit number.

Those in our larger cities have 4-digit STD (area) codes (e.g. 0121) and 7-digit ‘local’ numbers = an 11-digit number!

And the rest of us have 5-digit STD (area) codes (e.g. 01703) and 6-digit ‘local’ numbers = (no surprises here) an 11-digit number.

(Although some still have 5-digit STD [area] codes [e.g. 01524] and 6-digit ‘local’ numbers = a 10-digit number!)

So much for the standardisation we were promised at the time of ‘the Big Number’ change!

and then a plea for mobiles as 07X xxxx xxxx and PRS as 09X xxxx xxxx.

0fcom is addressing this, particularly with the 020 3xxx xxxx numbers out next year.

At last.

wrote on Oct 25^th, 2004 at 5:06pm:

and then a plea for mobiles as 07X xxxx xxxx and PRS as 09X xxxx xxxx. 0fcom is addressing this, particularly with the 020 3xxx xxxx numbers out next year. At last.

Really?  That merely perpetuates the 'London anomaly' of a 3-digit area code and 8-digit 'local' number and goes nowhere towards achieving standardisation.

Perhaps they should take into account that the USA, a country 4 times more populous than the UK, has standard 3-digit area codes and standard 7-digit (xxx XXXX) 'local' numbers.

Anomaly?

But this is the format of the 02X codes, for London, Cardiff, Coventry, Portsmouth and so on.

And we now have this single code for all of London rather than the several codes for New York etc, together with all the splits and overlays that so bedevil the North American Numbering Plan Area.

I have to agree with Owain on this one.

What's the point in listing them incorrectly? It makes them more difficult to read.

Over to DaveM on this one...