Get a 023 number
for your Southampton and Portsmouth business.
A 023 number tells customers in Southampton and Portsmouth you are local to them, without an office, a landline or an engineer visit. Auricall sets one up in minutes and puts a full phone system behind it — browser and mobile calling, IVR menus, voicemail transcribed to searchable text, and an AI layer that remembers every conversation.
Dialling code
023
Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire
Number format
023 XXXX XXXX
8 local digits after the code.
Also covers
Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport and Havant
One code, two cities: 023 80 numbers are Southampton and 023 92 numbers are Portsmouth. They were separate codes (01703 and 01705) until 2000, and locals still read the first two digits as the city.
A 023 number is the easy part.
Anyone can sell you a number. What decides whether it is useful is what happens when it rings, and what is left behind once the call ends.
- Buy a 023 number in minutes, or port the one you have for free
- Ring the whole team at once, not a single handset
- IVR menus and time-of-day routing you configure yourself
- Voicemail transcribed into a shared inbox
- Calls recorded and transcribed under your retention settings
- Call from the browser, the mobile app, or a SIP desk phone
- Every call attached to a contact and a timeline
- AI summaries and the commitments made on each call
Incoming · 023 XXXX XXXX
Ringing 3Eastleigh
Inside the 023 area
Fareham
Inside the 023 area
Gosport
Inside the 023 area
Havant
Inside the 023 area
One 023 number, answered by whoever is free — in Southampton and Portsmouth or anywhere else.
Customers in Southampton and Portsmouth
recognise 023.
Geographic codes stopped meaning a physical line years ago, but they never stopped meaning something to the person dialling. A local code reads as a business that is nearby and reachable — which is why plenty of national companies hold one for every region they sell into.
Local, without an office
Hold a 023 number whether or not you have premises in Hampshire. The number is not tied to an address.
Keep it when you move
Because there is no line underneath it, moving offices — or having none — does not cost you the number.
More than one answerer
A 023 number can ring an entire team at once and fall through to a shared voicemail inbox.
About 023 numbers
Yes. Porting a Southampton and Portsmouth number to Auricall is free and your number keeps working throughout — nothing is cut over until the port completes. Most UK geographic numbers move within ten working days.
No. UK geographic codes are not tied to a physical line any more, so a business anywhere can hold a 023 number. Plenty of remote and distributed teams use one to give customers in Hampshire a local number to call.
As well as Southampton and Portsmouth itself, 023 covers Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport and Havant. Any number in that area shares the same code.
023 XXXX XXXX — the 023 code followed by 8 local digits. Callers inside the area can usually dial just the local part.
Yes. One number can ring a whole team at once, follow an IVR menu, or route by time of day. Everyone answers from the browser or the Auricall Voice app, and every call lands on the same shared contact record.
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