Who called me from a Magrathea Telecommunications Limited number?

Magrathea Telecommunications Limited is a UK communications provider. That means Ofcom has allocated Magrathea Telecommunications Limited one or more blocks of UK telephone numbers under the National Telephone Numbering Plan, which Magrathea Telecommunications Limited can either use for its own customers or sub-allocate to resellers and downstream providers. In total, Magrathea Telecommunications Limited currently holds 1,234 allocated number blocks in our copy of the Ofcom plan.

Magrathea Telecommunications Limited's number ranges are concentrated in (028) (Northern Ireland), (020) (London), 056, 0800. Across all of its allocations the split is roughly 1,019 geographic landline, 84 premium-rate, 66 03 non-geographic, 28 freephone, 23 vpn, 13 personal, 1 mobile blocks. You can use the tables below to jump straight to a specific Magrathea Telecommunications Limited area code or number block and see the common call patterns reported for it.

The oldest Magrathea Telecommunications Limited number block in the Ofcom data was allocated in 2001, and the most recent in 2024. Allocation dates matter because a number that has been live for many years is more likely to be a settled business or residential line, whereas a very recently-allocated block is more commonly seen in VoIP and virtual-number services — the kind sometimes used for short-lived marketing or scam campaigns.

Is a Magrathea Telecommunications Limited number safe to answer? In most cases, yes — the overwhelming majority of calls from any UK provider's range are ordinary, legitimate calls. However, two things are important to understand. First, because Magrathea Telecommunications Limited can sub-allocate or resell its numbers, the fact that a number sits in a Magrathea Telecommunications Limited block does not mean Magrathea Telecommunications Limited itself is calling you. Second, UK caller IDs can be spoofed: scammers can make a call appear to come from a Magrathea Telecommunications Limited number they don't control. So treat the number as a clue, not proof — judge the call on what the caller actually asks for.

If a Magrathea Telecommunications Limited number called you and you're unsure, don't share security details, bank information or one-time passcodes, and don't return the call until you've verified it independently. You can block the specific number on any UK smartphone from the recent-calls list, enable free network-level call screening through your own landline provider, and register with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) to cut legitimate marketing calls. Persistent nuisance calls can be reported to Ofcom, and suspected scams to Action Fraud (or Police Scotland on 101).