In the UK, area code 020 is London. There is no area code 0208.
According to the BT website - the code 0208 or 02089 doesn't exist. Numbers starting 020 usually apply to somewhere in London - however, there are no numbers starting 0208 or 02089 !
There is no '0208' area code, but 020 is the code for London in the UK.People sometimes still wrongly write numbers in the format 0208 xxxxxxx. This suggests that the code is 0208, but that has never been the case and is probably just down to people misunderstanding how London phone numbers work since the renumbering that took place in the year 2000.London has just one area code (020), and all local numbers have eight digits.
There is no area code 0208 in the UK. The area code for London is just 020, with 8-digit local numbers. A number beginning with 020 8749 is most likely a BT landline in Shepherds Bush, but with number portability any specific 020 number could be located anywhere in London, served by any local phone company.
If the number is a London number that is eleven digits long in total then it should work as there have been no changes to the London telephone code since the year 2000. (Numbers in London all always have the code 020, followed by an eight digit local number.) Maybe the number you want has been taken out of service, or you have a wrong number?Alternatively, if you are trying to dial a really, really old number from before 1995 that is 0208 461xx or 0208 461xxx then this would be a number in Cornwall where the code changed from 0208 to 01208.
The country code and area code of Alwar, India is 91, (0)144.
020 is London. 020-3 numbers can be anywhere in London. The operator who "owns" this number is Frontier Systems. Note that the area code for London is just 020, not 0203 or 0207 or 0208.
The country code and area code of Shiraoi District- Hokkaido, Japan is 81, (0)144.
In the UK, area code 020 is for landlines in London. 84 would be the first two digits of an eight-digit local number.
The London phone directory no longer lists London telephone areas. All that can be gleaned from the given number is that 020 means that it is a London number and 8578 is somewhere in the outer London area.
The telephone area code for all of London, including Greenwich, is 020, or +44 20 in international format. The local number is then a further 8 digits. Although you may see references to things like "area code 0208," that is incorrect. The correct area code for London is just 020, and the 8 (or other digit) is the first digit of the 8-digit local number.
If this is a LONDON, UK, number then the correct format for the number is: (020) 8123 9142 The London area code is (020) and local numbers have eight digits. There is no distinct local area served by 8123 numbers. These numbers are issued by SKYPE and could be anywhere in LONDON. In fact it is entirely possible for the user of that number to be anywhere in the UK. These numbers are in the new blocks issued post-2000. The old number would have been 0181-123-9142 but that number would not have been valid in the old scheme. Local numbers could not begin with 0 or 1 in the 0181 area code. There is no such area code as 0207 or 0208.