020 3000 3000

[DML]

Some of you might know that London has a new number range(0203) that will work alongside the existing 0207 numbers.

Would be interesting to find out what UKBF members though about the value of one of these numbers.

DML

[Ozzy]

Much like a domain name or a number plate, its only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

[MarkPearson]

Its a VERY nice number.

Have no idea what its worth though.

Good Luck if your selling it.

[DML]

We had a meeting with the comms director of Merrill Lynch yesterday. It was not a sales pitch but merely to gauge interest and see what a large corporate thought of a so called vanity number.

I didn't mention any of the market research that we have done at the time. His answer was £50 000, and that was for 020 3000 4000. He said that a company of their size wouldn't even consider someone trying to sell it for much less.

I suppose that £50k is pocket change for them... :?

[Ozzy]

Now I would not pay that for a phone number, but then if I had several million spare 50k is nothing.

[Asteeleleith]

I still remember the mayhem for the london dialling code changes

01 to 0181, 0171
0208 to oh whatever

but what puzzled me is how did going from 0181 format to 0208 double the availability of numbers? Going from 01 to 0181, 0171 i can understand, but after we were only swapping one pair of numbers for another :-)

Or am i just being think? :oops:

Al

[Cornish Steve]

I still remember the mayhem for the london dialling code changes

01 to 0181, 0171
0208 to oh whatever

but what puzzled me is how did going from 0181 format to 0208 double the availability of numbers? Going from 01 to 0181, 0171 i can understand, but after we were only swapping one pair of numbers for another :-)

Or am i just being think? :oops:

Al

I think it's all a clever wheeze by companies that sell stationery: "Throw out all those letterheads with the old number, and buy all your new stationery from us."

[The_JinJ]

I think it's all a clever wheeze by companies that sell stationery: "Throw out all those letterheads with the old number, and buy all your new stationery from us."

LOL I think you may be right!!

[Cornish Steve]

I think it's all a clever wheeze by companies that sell stationery: "Throw out all those letterheads with the old number, and buy all your new stationery from us."

LOL I think you may be right!!

And who supplies the ink to print those new letterheads? It all begins to make sense. :)

[KM-Tiger]

but what puzzled me is how did going from 0181 format to 0208 double the availability of numbers? Going from 01 to 0181, 0171 i can understand, but after we were only swapping one pair of numbers for another
No, it was a fundamental change to a single - 020 - code for London followed by 8 digits.

Now at that time the 8 digits started with either 7 or 8, and that has remained for quite a while. But the potential is there for the 8 digits following the 020 to start with anything.

Very confusing as it was badly handled at the time, and many people still believe that 0181 changed to 0208. It didn't, it changed to 020.