[VoIP] Foula - Britain's Most Remote Inhabited Island and Britain's Last Public EM Exchange

[Ian Jolly]

Another line now connected  0393 3 32 27  /  +44 393 332 27    "Mrs Elizabeth Houlborn" will tell you a little about the telephones on Foula!

Other numbers on Foula 0393 3 32 XX have the original British Telecom 'Changed Code and Number Announcement' on them informing callers than Foula had lost its own STD/Area code and the numbers had changed to 6 digit numbers.  Foula had the STD Code 0393 3  and the numbers were shown as four digit numbers in the Telephone Directory - all being shown as 32XX.  However only the last two digits were used on the exchange to dial from one line to another.  Anyone on the island dialling the four digit Foula 'directory' number always reached  Foula 32 !!

I hope to have the actual exchange connected to CNET in a year or so.  

Ian Jolly