Range holder · Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham

YayYay Limited in Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham

0191 numbering ranges allocated by Ofcom

About YayYay Limited’s Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham allocation

When YayYay Limited is the range holder for +44 191 it means Ofcom recorded YayYay Limited 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 YayYay Limited 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 YayYay Limited’s blocks alongside other range holders on the same 0191 code. Local switching capacity, historic Openreach exchange footprints, and YayYay Limited’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.

YayYay Limited on 0191: by the numbers

Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham blocks
8
In active service
100%
Share of 0191
0%
Holders on code
140

Of the 8 blocks YayYay Limited runs on the 0191 code, 8 (100%) are marked as actively allocated in the current Ofcom snapshot.

By number family these blocks are 100% geographic (01 / 02) — a profile that tells you what kind of caller a Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham YayYay Limited number is likely to be before you even dial it back.

YayYay Limited runs 8 of the 2,000 allocated blocks on the 0191 dialling code — roughly 0% of Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham’s mapped allocation, shared with 139 other range holders. Most are listed as "Allocated", which means the block is currently in active service with a communications provider.

Allocated ranges

YayYay Limited blocks on the 0191 (Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham) dialling code.

PrefixStatus
+44 191367Allocated
+44 191367Allocated
+44 191694Allocated
+44 191694Allocated
+44 191695Allocated
+44 191695Allocated
+44 191722Allocated
+44 191722Allocated

FAQs about YayYay Limited on 0191

Why does YayYay Limited appear on Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham (0191) numbers?

YayYay Limited is listed in Ofcom's UK Numbering Data feed as the originally-allocated range holder for 8 number blocks on the 0191 dialling code, which covers Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham. That allocation pre-dates any individual customer — it simply means Ofcom recognised YayYay Limited as the wholesale operator entitled to issue those digits when the block was first allocated.

Are calls from a Tyneside / Newcastle / Sunderland / Durham YayYay Limited-allocated number safe?

An Ofcom allocation only tells you which provider the block was issued to; it is not a safety verdict. UK numbers can be ported between networks, and any UK area code can be spoofed by an overseas caller. Paste the specific 0191 number into the lookup above to combine the YayYay Limited range data with a live AI internet check for forum reports, scam databases, and business listings.

Has YayYay Limited's 0191 block been updated recently?

Yes — the table above is sourced from Ofcom's public UK Numbering Data feed, which we re-ingest every week (typically Wednesday). Any block that has been re-assigned, withdrawn or marked free will appear with its new status on the next refresh. Numbers within an allocated block can still be ported to another carrier in between Ofcom updates; see our range-holder-vs-current-provider guide for the distinction.