http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/phone/numbering/dial-the-code/

Due to telephone number exhaustion, they're asking everybody to upgrade 
to IPv6 - er, I mean, they're changing the numbering plan.

Currently, all area codes start with 0. But that means you cannot assign 
anybody a telephone number that starts with 0, see? So they're making it 
so you always have to dial the area code. That way, we know it's the 
area code because it's at the beginning of the number, not because it 
starts with a 0.

Rather than, say, add new area codes or something, which would only 
affect people assigned these new numbers.

Still, I guess it could be worse...

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