Ofcom is removing the obligation on telecoms providers to provide local dialling, saying "We are removing the requirement to provide local dialling on landline phone services since we consider that the value of this facility to phone users has declined and it is more complex to provide on IP networks. We anticipate that telecoms providers are likely to remove this facility as they migrate landline customers to new IP voice services."
If you store numbers in your handset, do so with the full number.
