IP Voice Networks Ltd in Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham

About IP Voice Networks Ltd’s Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham allocation

When IP Voice Networks Ltd is the range holder for +44 191 it means Ofcom recorded IP Voice Networks Ltd as the provider entitled to issue numbers from these blocks when they were first allocated under the UK National Telephone Numbering Plan. 8 Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham-facing blocks sit against IP Voice Networks Ltd in the current Ofcom snapshot, each of which can carry up to ten thousand individual digits available for assignment to end customers.

Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham’s North East telecoms estate is shaped by Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham's catchment of roughly 880,000 residents: a dense urban exchange typically hosts allocations from several national operators in parallel, which is why you see IP Voice Networks Ltd’s blocks alongside other range holders on the same 0191 code. Local switching capacity, historic Openreach exchange footprints, and IP Voice Networks Ltd’s wholesale routing arrangements all influence which blocks land in Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham rather than elsewhere on the national plan.

Treat this allocation as a starting point, not a verdict on any specific caller. UK numbers are portable, so the current carrier on a given 0191 digit string may differ from the range holder shown — read Range Holder vs current provider for the distinction, and How Ofcom allocates UK phone numbers for the wider context behind the table below.