• LONDON office: 0207 760 7600
  • BIRMINGHAM office: 0121 673 8002
  • GLASGOW office: 0141 278 3978
  • CARDIFF office: 029 2029 0400
  • USA office: 1866 817 4547

Welcome to CityNumbers

We are viewed as one of the most diverse and creative communications companies in the UK. Our portfolio consists of UK phone numbers which include (0800 numbers, 0845 numbers, 0844 numbers and 0871 numbers), Virtual telephone numbers (01 and 02 UK phone numbers), Virtual International Phone Numbers, International Toll Free Numbers, Virtual Reception Services, Fax to Email, Web Site Design, Audio Conferencing, Cheap Phone Calls and Mobile Phones.

Our philosophy is to provide creative solutions to customers who can control their services once we have delivered the product. For example our phone numbers can be managed online ensuring our customers have immediate control of call routing. Our website design is usually built with bespoke content management allowing our customers to change and populate their sites without ever contacting us.

Based in Birmingham City Centre we cover the entire UK and have recently expanded our service delivery to companies in the USA, Europe and the Far East.

Feel free to view all of our services online and speak to us about your requirement. We have provided you with a free phone 0800 number for you to call us on so that you can discuss your requirements without worrying about the cost to call (we have to lead by example!).

Phone Numbers Services click below to find out more

  • 0800 numbers
  • 0844 numbers
  • 0845 numbers
  • 0871 numbers
  • 0300 numbers
  • 0333 numbers
  • UK virtual numbers
  • International virtual numbers
  • International TollFree
  • star
  • audio conferencing
  • hash

Additional Services

incoming call featuresIncoming Call Features

Find out more about our additional services that compliment our phone numbers. Make your phone number work harder for you by adding additional services. It will improve your customers experience of getting in touch with you. more

fax to emailFax To Email

Save money on Ink, Paper and electricity and at the same time help the environment. Simply throw away your fax machine and replace it with a fax to email number. All faxes sent to your new number will be converted to a PDF and sent to your email address. more

cheap international callsCheap International Calls

Save £££’s by using our cheap international phone call service. You don’t have to register and you can start saving today. This is an easy to use service that could save you hundreds of pounds on international phone calls. more

Telephone Call Tracking Telephone Call Tracking

COMING SOON. Track your advertising performance using our inbound numbers. Integrated with Google Analytics. Learn how much every pound spent an adverts converts to sales. more

Benefits of using CityNumbers as your service provider

  • Highly memorable 0800, 0845, 0844 and 0871 numbers
  • Instant connection of phone numbers
  • Online and real time call stats using our state of the art portal
  • Fully itemised monthly invoices which list all your callers, and clearly demonstrates where you being called from
  • Feature rich portfolio allowing us to be as creative as you want us to be
  • Years of experience in the industry that you can draw down on
  • Multiple carrier relationships across the world which enables us to port numbers from most carriers
  • Over 4000 virtual city phone numbers covering most of the world
  • One of the most creative web design teams in the UK

For more information on our products and services please either call us on 0800 0155 111, Send us an enquiry online or email us.

CityNumbers customer examples

BarclaysOne of Barclays divisions needed a phone number in Holland for a campaign that was being launched in the Netherlands. We were asked to provide a Toll Free Number in Holland to point to a UK landline. Deadlines were tight but we managed to get a number live on the same day as Barclays placing the order. Barclays have now held an account with us for over 7 months and the international number in Holland has proved a success.


SamsungSamsung have recently joined City Numbers by taking International phone numbers in both Italy and France.  The Italy Toll Free Number and France Toll Free Number will allow their customers in the country to call Samsung for free as they will be picking up the call costs. International toll free numbers are ideal for companies who want to show that they have a presence in another country without a physical location.

SKYWe currently provide 2 x 0800 free phone numbers in China for EASYNET who are a wholly owned company of SKY. The service was set up to encourage customers to join their network in China. The 0800 China toll free number routes back to a UK call centre where calls are answered in the local dialect.


UnisonUnison have become one of the latest major organisations to join us as a customer. We have recently provided multiple 0800 numbers with a call whisper on each number so that Unison employees know that the call is for a particular department. The service was ordered and delivered on exactly the same day. Unison also have the capability to change where the numbers are pointed to by using our online portal, this portal also gives them real time call statistics.

OracleWe were very excited to provide Oracle with a USA toll free number that routes to a call centre in the UK. The number will allow Oracle to provide a USA support number to customers in America and answer the calls from their base in the UK. The toll free number allows for thousands of concurrent calls to be answered at any time of the day.


EMI PUBLISHINGEMI have chosen City Numbers Ltd to supply them with virtual international phone numbers that route back to the UK. Multiple phone numbers have been set up overseas to come back into a central call centre which helps the international clients of EMI stay in touch.

AEAEmploying over 1000 people globally, this leading provider of advisory services to the UK Government use our toll free phone numbers in India. AEA Technology provides environmental consultancy services and uses our 0800 numbers in India for their disaster recovery at a local chemical plant. If there is an issue at the plant then a toll free number is used in India which routes back to the call centre in the UK. A time based routing plan is used to ensure the phone calls are routed to offices that are open at certain times of the day (based upon GMT time).


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Everything you need to know about phone numbers

UK Virtual Local Numbers

There are 2 types of different Virtual Numbers that we supply. The first are UK Virtual numbers (Also known as Areacall, Remote call forward, Ghost numbers and virtual landlines). These allow businesses, big and small, to have geographic numbers anywhere in the country without actually being located there. You could already have 0800 numbers and 0333 numbers, but you still might want to target the local areas or the major cities. Virtual UK numbers give you this option and provides your business the ideal opportunity to a local supplier rather than a faceless national company. From John O’Groats to Lands End, all regions are covered and the possibilities are endless. Just like other non-geographic numbers, Virtual UK Landline Numbers can be forwarded to any landline, mobile or international location and additional services such as Voicemail to email, IVR, Auto Attendant, Call Whisper and much more can also be applied.

UK Virtual landline numbers are our biggest seller as more and more companies want to appear local. Here is an example of a company that use the service. Distributor of Manchester United football memorabilia based in London wanted to have a presence in Manchester. We have provided them with a virtual 0161 number that points to their existing office in London (0207). We then added a service called “call whisper” to the line so that when they pick up the phone it says “this is a call on your Manchester Number”. Rather than opening an office in Manchester they now have a virtual presence and their customers aren’t even aware that they are 150 miles away. They have taken this one stage further by employing a person with a Mancunian accent!

International Virtual Numbers

The international virtual numbers and UK virtual numbers are exactly the same; you can now advertise the fact that you have a local office in over 50 countries (over 4000 cities). International Virtual Numbers give you the ability to have any local city number worldwide and forward back to your exiting phone number. Need a phone number in Las Vegas, New York, Sydney, Barcelona and Rome? Not a problem. International Virtual Phone Numbers are extremely popular and getting ever increasingly so with the rise in demand for global trading. If you are considering selling your services in international markets then don’t open an office, take on staff, learn the language and then try to wade through the red tape. Simply buy a local phone number in the country you are trying to expand into and test the waters. Not only will it be significantly cheaper but you will not have to get on that tiring flight just to check up on your team. So if you are looking to get ahead and expand into other countries (we supply numbers in over 50 worldwide countries) then look no further. Give us a call on our local numbers and let us take your business global!

International Toll Free

International Toll free numbers are the best way to get a global look and feel for your company while also using non-geographic numbers. This service allows you to take a free phone number in over 40 countries and have it diverted to any of your existing phone numbers (this includes UK landlines, Mobiles, International landlines or international mobiles). International Toll Free numbers are an ideal way to attract new customers from an international market. You do not need an office in any of the countries that we supply this service in and as the cost is low it gives you a chance to test a market. Almost every country has a difference free phone number range. For example USA toll free numbers start 1800 or 1866, Sweden Toll Free Numbers start 0207 and Italy Toll Free Numbers start 900. The numbers that we supply are provided to us from the local Telco and are not VOIP numbers. They are traditional toll free numbers from that particular country. We provide this service to some major organisations in the Banking arena, Pharmaceutical and Airline markets. With minimum terms on toll free numbers just 30 days it’s an easy decision to set one up.