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Old 25th May 2020, 12:59 am   #13
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Default Re: Dialling Code Booklets, your memories?

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Originally Posted by Dave Moll View Post
The big advantage of the Phone Book Companion was that it gave not only the STD codes for the exchanges (listed in alphabetical order), but also provided a translation in the other direction (in numerical order), enabling a code to be identified back to a geographical area. In these days of calls with "spoofed" caller identities, I amuse myself by looking up the codes in these numbers to see whether they equate to real places.
In the absence of anything more useful, My Freepbx uses the data source "UKPhoneInfo UK" in the "Superfecta" module to populate the name field of the CDR and the caller displays, which allows me to answer the phone with "Do I know anyone in Llandrindod Wells?" Or wherever they purport to be.
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