WHAT IS PHONEDAY?
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OFTEL, the Government's telecommunications regulator, has decided that the UK 
area codes should be changed to meet the increasing demand for new codes and 
numbers.

The changes will take place at 1am on the morning of 16 April 1996 - Phoneday.

From that day, the number 1 will be inserted after the initial 0 in the UK
area codes. So, for example, the code for Manchester, 061, will become 0161.

At the same time, five cities that have a particularly urgent need for more
telephone numbers will be given completely new codes and a digit will be
inserted before each local number.

The new codes and numbers for each city are:

        Leeds 0532 XXXXXX becomes 0113 2XX XXXX
        Sheffield 0742 XXXXXX becomes 0114 2XX XXXX
        Nottingham 0602 XXXXXX becomes 0115 9XX XXXX
        Leicester 0533 XXXXXX becomes 0116 2XX XXXX
        Bristol 0272 XXXXXX becomes 0117 9XX XXXX

Certain codes, such as those for `premium rate' services (0898 etc.), and
those for mobile phones do not change.

Furthermore, the international code changes from 010 to 00 in order to
harmonise this across Europe.

The Psion Phoneday Tools are a set of three applications designed to
make the transition as easy as possible.  They're also meant to be
self-explanatory, so just install them and you're well away.