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You are able to purchase phone cards from most newsagents, supermarkets and some grocery shops and if you are paying for your call with cash phones generally accept coins from 5p and upwards. There is no charge made for emergency ('999' or '112') calls. To make a telephone call you may need to enter up to four different sets of numbers and they are: The international dialling code (to UK is 00 44) The country code The area code (Cambridge is 01223) The persons individual number.

 If you are from overseas you should take into account time differences when making your calls. This will apply more to those of you from further away, a mid afternoon call here could get your nearest and dearest up at some very unsociable hours if you don't appreciate time-zones. To find telephone numbers you can look in a number of telephone directories widely available, or telephone directory enquiries (available 24 hours) on 192 for local and national numbers or 153 for international numbers. With all this information you should be able to locate and make a telephone call, but as with anything the telecommunications business is constantly updating itself and so charges may only be approximated and numbers, whilst correct at the time of writing this, may have changed.