118 118 - Directory Enquiries Service in Great Britain
118 118 is a British supplier of directory enquiry services, facilitating everyone to locate telephone contacts on top of additional handy data.
118 118 make use of The Number UK Ltd’ to supply directory enquiry information - the Number UK is a subsidiary of the States based Company InfoNXX - the very largest independent directory assistance provider internationally.
Directory enquiries was once contacted by phoning up 192 (Britain), even so, the marketplace was deregulated in ‘02 and in August 2003 192 stopped.
As well as offering a directory enquiry facility, 118 118 also provide a resource by which you could ask 118’s personnel anything, eg, ‘Where is the highest building in the capital’ and 118 then can supply the answer to your question, over the telephone line, or, if you prefer, over a text message (intensely valuable when you’re doing a pub quiz!)
118 118 presented several exciting advert campaigns in the past few years, making two cheeky chappies with droopy ‘taches, famous for promoting their system. The geezers who have appeared in a number of peculiar guises, including a take-off of ‘The A-team’. 118 118 are, now, an especially relevant part of the 118 brand throughout the UK, and are easily recognizable.
