Hundreds of homes across London were cut off from
incoming calls after a network problem developed as
engineers shut down the capital's old codes.

. . .

Five million mobile phone users are still using the old
numbers and people with numbers pre-programmed into
their land-lines and faxes are also making millions of
misdialled calls every day.

This is London

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), October 14, 2000