Tag: 0800
Giving out a local or mobile number is sometimes a good idea. It gives you a personal touch and, if you’re only going to be working in the local area, your customers and potential customers will place more trust in you because you’re a local businessman. However, if …
For a while here in the UK we’ve had a strange situation. If you call an 0800 number it’s supposed to be free. The company you’re calling pay the entire cost of the call but, until now, many mobile providers have put an additional cost on top, which …
We’ve all been there haven’t we? You need to call the bank, gas company, the insurance company, an airline or even that special clinic and.. oh.. it’s an 0845 number.. or an 0870 number. A few years back I had to call a recovery truck after I inadvertently …
Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator has announced that they are looking into the standardisation of the “confusing” costs of calling non geographical 0845 and freephone 0800 numbers from mobile phones. Costs of calling these numbers currently can vary from 20p to 40p per minute for 0800 and vary …
We’ve all seen the adverts that say “call us free on this number now” or “freephone 0800 blah blah blah”. That’s all well and good but from most mobile networks freephone numbers are not free…yet. In fact they can cost up to 21p per minute. Ofcom recently announced …
Here in the UK you can dial an 0800 number and it’ll be free. However, it’s only free if you’re using a landline. If you’re using a mobile phone you suddenly become all special and the networks delight in adding a fee for you to call it. The …
