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

[Donald Froula]

Hmm...wonder if this is my ancestral home.... :-)

Don Froula
1-762

--- Ian Jolly <ian at uax.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
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