Early Days
After protracted lobbying of Oftel throughout 1992, Stanford White (of Numbering Viewed Worldwide Ltd) and Will Goodall (of Goodall Personal Numbering Ltd, renamed FleXtel in 1994) were each licensed by the DTI (now BERR) in mid-1993, under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984, to provide telecommunications services.
The UK's first commercial personal numbering service was launched by FleXtel in December 1993, by piggy-backing onto the Mercury One2One GSM network on the old One2One 09567 range.
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