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Postby nelz » Sun May 13, 2007 3:18 pm

That's useful. The number of times I've dialled an 0870 number, at national rates, only to find I'm talking to someone five miles down the road.
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Postby spottedcat » Sun May 13, 2007 3:21 pm

nelz wrote:That's useful. The number of times I've dialled an 0870 number, at national rates, only to find I'm talking to someone five miles down the road.


I didn't realise that Warrington was that near to Mumbai! :roll:
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Postby nelz » Sun May 13, 2007 7:18 pm

It's not, but it is within local call range of Birkenhead :lol:
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Postby Rhakios » Sun May 13, 2007 9:03 pm

It's easy to tell in Walsall, you just adopt Black Country dialect and if they can still understand you, then the call is local. :)
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