how do I dial this UK phone number?

[karyn674]

Could you kindly answer my curiosity please?

Why the 011? What does it stands for? Is it a prefix to get cheeaper rates when calling overseas? Or, what?

[Barbara]

Why the 011? What does it stands for?

Here in Europe we have to dial 00 (as in 0049 for Germany or 0044 for UK) to get an international line instead of a purely national one. In the US and in Canada it is 011 instead.
So to call a normal London number which would start with 0207...in UK you would have to dial 011 44 207...

[karyn674]

Thanks Barbara!

Learned something new today! Though I cannot remember of doing an 011 to dial home before the 00356 which is the country code for Malta, when I visited the US and Canada!

I must have forgot then!