Tag: numbering – DIDcomms

Changes which are going to affect 070 UK Personal Numbers

Posted on October 30, 2018May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

070 Personal Numbers will be discontinued from October 1st, 2019 and all 070 Personal Numbering will become standard pay-as-you-go 07 mobile phone numbers. Due to changes in Ofcom regulations, 070 Personal Numbers will no longer available after October 1st, 2019. Existing customers are recommended to move from 070 personal numbers to 087 numbers, as in the next 12 months 070 personal numbers w...
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Final statement: Personal numbering – Review of the 070 number range

Posted on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

Final statement published 1 October 2018 070 numbers are designed to be used for personal or ‘follow-me’ services. When someone calls a 070 number, their communications provider pays a wholesale termination charge to the 070 service provider for the call to reach the recipient. The caller is then charged a retail price by their communications provider for making that call. As part of the Call ...
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Draft statement: Personal numbering – Review of the 070 number range

Posted on August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

070 UK Personal numbering – Review of the 070 number range Start: 06 December 2017 Status: Closed End: 28 February 2018 070 numbers are designed to be used for personal or ‘follow-me’ services. When someone calls a 070 number, their communications provider pays a wholesale termination charge to the 070 service provider for the call to reach the recipient. The caller is then charged...
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Personal Numbering – Guidance on the acceptable use of 070 numbers

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Daniel Kobale

Revised 27 February 2009 Ofcom has produced these guidelines to provide range holders with further clarification on what it considers to be acceptable use of 070 numbers. They do not fetter Ofcom's discretion in dealing with future cases involving the use of the 070 range. Comments on these guidelines are welcome and, if appropriate, may be reflected in any future revision. 1. This guid...
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070 Personal Numbering Services (PNS)

Posted on August 1, 2012April 3, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

Personal numbering is the name for virtual telephone number services in a number of countries including the UK and Spain. Typically the national destination code used for this service is 070 service. This service has historically been poorly defined by Oftel, now known as Ofcom More recently Ofcom has made an in depth study into the service and is now proposing to keep the service and not migrate ...
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