Letter: Numbers game
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Alarmed at the rapidity with which the next phone number change is upon us and having received no notification from BT about the effect of the changes, I called the BT operator to find out what my number will be after 1 June.
The operator didn't know but gave me the BT national number-change number (0800 224 2000). This, on dialling, was unobtainable.
On calling back, I was told that 0181will be replaced by 0208, and that my present seven- digit number remains unchanged for local calls. This operator also found the freephone number unobtainable, although she did eventually locate another number which got me through.
I was then given information which contradicted what I had been told earlier: my local number does become eight- digit.
Can I reprint my company's stationery on this basis?
ALEC BARTON
London SE23
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