Who we are
Use The Geeks is the trading name of Use The Geeks Ltd, a managed service provider based in Burnley, Lancashire. We help UK businesses with IT support, cloud telephony, connectivity and business mobile, in plain English and without the jargon.
The company was founded by Andrew Pickett, who is also its CEO. You can meet him and the rest of the team on The Geeks page, and read what each of our writers covers on the authors page.
What we do for businesses
- IT support: managed support, security and Microsoft 365.
- Cloud telephony: hosted business phone systems, including the move away from ISDN and the old phone network.
- Connectivity: business broadband and connectivity.
- Mobile products: business mobile contracts, SIM-only and handsets for teams of any size.
If that sounds useful, ask for a quote or get in touch.
Why there are free tools and guides
Most visitors come to check an unknown phone number or to find out whether a call was a scam. We built the UK phone number checker and the phone scam guides to give people a clear, honest answer about a number.
Those pages are free to use and are paid for by adverts from Google, which appear on the checker and scam guide pages only. We do not show adverts on our business pages. Advertisers do not decide what we write or what the checker says, and we do not take payment to list or remove a number. Details of what adverts collect are in our privacy policy and cookie policy.
How the phone number checker works
The checker uses the numbering data that Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, publishes. We refresh it every week, and match the number you enter against it to show the type of number, the area and the provider the range was allocated to. It does not name the person or business behind a number, and numbers can be moved between providers, so the provider shown is the original holder of the range. Our checker page explains the limits in more detail.
We keep a record of which number ranges people check so we can see what is being searched for, and we publish totals in our reports and data. We never publish individual numbers or anything that identifies a visitor. The privacy policy has the detail.
How we write
Every guide has a named author and a published date, and an updated date where we have revised it. We write from public sources, such as Ofcom, Report Fraud (formerly Action Fraud) and the Information Commissioner, and from what we see working with UK businesses. Where a source or an Ofcom dataset changes, we update the page and the date. If you think we have got something wrong, tell us.
Where to find us
Use The Geeks Ltd, 2 Slater Terrace, Burnley, Lancashire BB11 1BU. Phone 0333 006 9399, email info@usethegeeks.co.uk. Use The Geeks Ltd is registered in England and Wales as USETHEGEEKS LIMITED, company number 10280011. Registered office: 2 Slater Terrace, Burnley, Lancashire BB11 1BU. More ways to reach us are on the contact page.