Can you locate a phone box from it's number?

We seem to be receiving a load of calls from a local number, all of which are hang ups. The mother in law thinks it's a phone box, is there any way we can find out which phone box it is?

Reply 1

m90

I'm not sure, the local council might know or something? They might have all numbers of phone boxes & their locations etc. Sorry I'm not much help, I'm guessing all the numbers are kept in a file somewhere... council, BT... sorry I'm not more help!

Reply 2

hannah_dru

I think you can because police trace dodgy calls to phone boxes. I'm not sure how you'd do it though.

Reply 3

prXXX344d

Yes you can, because thats why the Emergency Services prefer you using callboxes instead of mobile phones - they can pinpoint your location based on it. The phonebox has the number inside it, but to actually find the particular number - I'm not sure that information is classified or not...

Reply 4

Mad Vlad

Tap the number into google, or phone BT

Reply 5

PieMaster

Alan Partridge

Yes you can, because thats why the Emergency Services prefer you using callboxes instead of mobile phones - they can pinpoint your location based on it.

*Thats why they used to, but its just as easy to do some maths on the signal strengths between some masts to determine the location of the mobile; even the AA use it now to locate people who have broken down.

Anyway, just contact the police on the local non-emergency number and get them to sort it out.

Reply 6

Clubber Lang

the police wont tel lyou where it is from

if you have the number try to do a 'reverse lookup' - that may give you the address if tis a household - not sure what woudl happen if its a phonebox.

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