On Jul 19, 11:57*am, Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
03:32:10 on Sun, 19 Jul 2009, John B remarked:

My father lives in India and has a +44 20 phone number. My office is
in Islington and has an +1 646 phone number.

Are they VoIP?

Yup.

Are BT phone numbers even still /supposed/ to be geographical?

If they are traditional landlines, then each exchange has a specific
area it covers. But it's been possible for a generation to get "out of
area" numbers if you paid enough.

Haha, so there's no technical reason for having area codes any more,
but they force you to stick with the historical codes by default so
they can sting people on upgrades? Yup, that's the BT I know and love,
for fairly twisted values of 'love'.

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John Band
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www.johnband.org