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084 number?

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  • 02-12-2008 7:12pm
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    tba
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    Anybody got any idea where a +353 84 XXXX XXXX number would be coming from?


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    rmacm
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    According to this http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0804.pdf

    084 is allocated for future MVNO use and the subscriber numbers are 7 digits long and mailbox numbers are 8 digits long.

    I've a vague memory of someone mentioning to me that it was licenced out to Imagine at one stage but that seems to have changed.


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    barnicles
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    Whats MVNO?


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    rmacm
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    barnicles wrote: »
    Whats MVNO?

    Mobile Virtual Network Operator, basically a mobile operator who doesn't have any licenced frequencies and may not have all the network infrastructure required to run a mobile network, e.g. they may own a HLR but they wouldn't have any core network switching equipment like an MSC/MSS.

    More here info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVNO


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    tba
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    it seems it was a marketing company from the UK ringing me..


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    Earth Traveller
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    If it was 0845... then probably it was a non-geographic special services number in the U.K. You would probably expect to see the number as 0044 845..., if it was coming from the U.K. (44 country code). Do you use BT as your phone service provider? I do and I sometimes see incoming calls from the U.K. without their country code prefix.


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    Solair
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    It sounds like a caller ID error on an international call.

    Occasionally, a call may end up routed directly into the eircom network without passing through an international gateway, this is especially true for calls from the UK. Due to the huge volumes of calls to and from the UK, there are quite a few interconnections between BT and eircom.

    It's possible that the company's calling from a UK 0845 number and somehow the system hasn't parsed it into the international format.


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    barnicles
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    rmacm,

    This proves what you said about Imagine
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054961901


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    rmacm
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    barnicles wrote: »
    rmacm,

    This proves what you said about Imagine
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054961901

    Ah cheers barnicles, it was some one at work who mentioned it to me before but according to that pdf I posted I'm not sure if it's being used by anyone at the moment.


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