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Old 08-10-2007, 15:21   #8
paulash134
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Red face Re: Telephone service codes: BT and Telewest

In answer to your question

...By mistake, I dialled 1741 instead of 1471, and heard a male recorded voice saying "The number you are dialling from is ... followed by a number which is not the one I use I live in mid-Kent. Any idea what this service is supposed to be for? ...

The code 174 is for an engineering service which identifies the line number. On old GPO/BT exchanges depending on type you could also start some simple tests and get a ring back. (Codes; 173/174/175/176/177) The additional 1 you dialled is extraneous and will be lost.

I'm not sure, and I'm prepared to be blasted out of the water, but when you port numbers around the BT/Telewest network they only really divert the numbers to other numbers to effect the required solution.
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