AQL Wholesale Ltd

About AQL Wholesale Ltd as an Ofcom Range Holder

A Range Holder is the UK communications provider that Ofcom originally allocated a block of numbers to under the National Telephone Numbering Plan. AQL Wholesale Ltd appears in Ofcom’s weekly Numbering Data feed against the 1,000 ranges listed below — meaning every UK number that falls inside one of those blocks was, at allocation time, handed to AQL Wholesale Ltd for use by their wholesale or retail customers.

Once a number is in service, the underlying customer can port it to a different provider while keeping the same digits. Ofcom does not publish a live current-carrier feed for the UK, so the Range Holder shown here is the best public signal for which provider operated a given block at allocation. If you are trying to identify the network on a specific AQL Wholesale Ltd-allocated number today, use the per-number lookup on the homepage — it combines this Range Holder data with a live AI internet check for the actual caller.

To learn how UK numbers are allocated, see How Ofcom allocates UK phone numbers. For the difference between an Ofcom-allocated Range Holder and the current carrier shown on caller ID, see Range Holder vs current provider.

Why does the Range Holder matter when you’re trying to identify a caller? Because it tells you which wholesale carrier the digits were originally issued against, and that carrier’s typical use of the block narrows the field of likely callers. AQL Wholesale Ltd allocations are typically reached through retail brands, business tariffs and resellers built on top of the wholesale network, so the actual person at the other end of a AQL Wholesale Ltd-allocated number might be a residential customer, a small business, or a national contact-centre — but it is unlikely to be an unrelated VoIP gateway operating from outside the UK. Combined with the per-number AI internet check, the Range Holder is one of the strongest free signals available for answering “who called me?”

The allocations on this page are live: every Wednesday morning the weekly Ofcom Numbering Data feed is downloaded, parsed, and atomically swapped into the production database. New blocks allocated to AQL Wholesale Ltd appear here within seven days of Ofcom’s publish date; blocks transferred away from AQL Wholesale Ltd (a rare but documented event) are removed in the same cycle. If you’re looking at this page during the Wednesday ingest window the figures could briefly include both the previous and the new snapshot — the swap itself takes well under a second.

Looking up a specific number from one of AQL Wholesale Ltd’s allocated blocks is the quickest way to identify the actual caller. The lookup combines the structured Range Holder match shown on this page with a live AI internet check that aggregates public reports about the exact digits — useful when an unfamiliar AQL Wholesale Ltd-allocated number turns out to be a national contact-centre, a delivery courier, a legitimate small business, or a known scam pattern.

AQL Wholesale Ltd at a glance

Across its UK portfolio AQL Wholesale Ltd holds 1,000 Ofcom-allocated number ranges, spread across 63 distinct three-digit number-cluster roots in the UK numbering plan. The largest geographic concentration sits on 028 Northern Ireland with 68 AQL Wholesale Ltd-allocated blocks, followed by 020 London (12) and 01482 Kingston upon Hull (10). The most common allocation status across AQL Wholesale Ltd’s portfolio is Allocated (100% of the blocks).

For scale, the average UK range holder in our dataset carries 523 allocated blocks across 434 holders. AQL Wholesale Ltd’s 1,000 therefore put it at roughly 1.9× the dataset average, or about 0.4% of every Ofcom-allocated block we track.

By number family, AQL Wholesale Ltd’s allocation is 100% geographic (01 / 02). That spread is a fingerprint of how the holder uses the numbering plan — a mobile-heavy profile points to consumer handsets, while a geographic-heavy one points to landline and business estate.

What this means for a call from a AQL Wholesale Ltd-allocated number

• The Range Holder is the originating wholesale allocation — it tells you which network the digits were issued against, not which retail brand actually placed the call. AQL Wholesale Ltd’s blocks are resold widely, and the underlying customer may have ported away to another carrier entirely without the public Ofcom record changing.
• A AQL Wholesale Ltd-allocated number is statistically more likely to come from a UK consumer, small business or contact-centre using the network than from an unrelated offshore VoIP gateway. CLI spoofing remains technically possible, so this is a likelihood, not a guarantee — pair it with the AI internet check for real confidence.
• For a confident identification, take the specific number from the table below, paste it into the lookup on the homepage and read the per-number AI internet check. It aggregates public reports on the exact digits and pairs them with this Range Holder context, which together are far stronger evidence than the wholesale allocation alone.