Flextel is a British company that pioneered the use of personal numbering in telecommunications in the United Kingdom.
After the Duopoly Review White Paper in 1991[3] it was clear that there was now an opportunity for small niche players in the UK telecoms market.
In 1992 Flextel was formed by a team of management professionals, some of whom helped found and launch the Vodafone service.
[7] In 2002 Flextel deployed its own switches and real-time databases and gradually expanded its service proposition to non-geographic, mobile and geographic flexible telephone numbers.
After over 15 years, the market now has numerous service providers of virtual telephone numbers, each with a different package of advanced features, e.g. conference calling, fax to email, voicemail to email, area routing, time of day routing.