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Sep 3rd, 2006 at 2:03pm
 
Say No to 0870 in French?

Mes amis, does anybody know if our cousins français 'ave a site similaire to ours?

There's a fracas brewing over zeer about Air France 'enhancing' its call centre services by changing from an 0802 prefix charged at a mere €0.15/min - to a four digit short number charged at an entirely reasonable €0.34/min. What's more, the four digit short number will lead to a menu giving a choice of three services each of which you could dial directly before Grin

Plus ca change - plus c'est la même chose!

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Reply #1 - Sep 4th, 2006 at 11:50pm
 
As far as I know, the UK is in the lead in Europe with this site. There are plenty of countries where the sheep pay over the odds fooled by names such as "service numbers" for cust to biz calls. Finland is a classic example where mobile and landline calls became so reasonable that companies jumped to 0x00 codes with connection and per min charges to reverse the price drops.

France is bad. Those 3xxx short codes for basics such as travel reservation at 34c/min run off voice-activated menus designed to keep the clock ticking. A pal with utility accounts in France spent ages digging up direct landline numbers since the ridiculous 0892 codes could almost all not be dialled from abroad - this is a clue that *many* French companies have alternatives but I have not seen a site listing them. Perhaps there's a need to translate this site's good aims into other languages with keywords to pull in a wider audience?
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Reply #2 - Jun 2nd, 2007 at 9:36am
 
have a look at http://www.geonumbers.com/ ; also for spain and belgium  Roll Eyes
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Reply #3 - Oct 12th, 2007 at 4:48pm
 
A similar website for numbers in Ireland is SayNoTo1890 and is even named after this website!

The website has been created by Value Ireland and the news page says that it was launched on 4 September 2007.
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Reply #4 - Nov 7th, 2007 at 11:58am
 
I am not quite sure what I am doing or even if I should ask this here but If not then I can't see where.

I live in Tenerife and in Spain the 0870 and 0850 are replaced by 901 and 902 (not necessarily in that order, or even as direct equivalents) I do not speak Spanish yet so I cannot look for the equivalent 'Say No ' site in spanish. Can you help by adding Spanish 901 and 902 numbers or telling me if there is an equivalent Spanish site. The problem is exactly the same here. What is the point of having free calls bundled with internet (which is much more expensive here than UK) when many numbers you need to call are excluded ?  Undecided

Hope you can help

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Re: Spanish equivalent of "SayNoto0870.com" ??
Reply #5 - Nov 7th, 2007 at 1:19pm
 

Site for Germany, Belgium and France:

http://www.geonumbers.com/
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Re: Spanish equivalent of "SayNoto0870.com" ??
Reply #6 - Nov 12th, 2007 at 12:57am
 
for Netherlands:

http://www.vraagalex.nl/index.php?p=anti

maybe some useful ones there for from UK
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Reply #7 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 8:09am
 
I was in Paris recently and used a "Numero vert" freephone 080x number to access telephony services. I saw various advertisements with 081x and 082x numbers which I suspected were like the UK 084x and 087x numbers. No warning of charges.

This website is out of date but suggests that there is a problem:
http://www.beyond.fr/a/phone.html
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Reply #8 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 9:10am
 
.....furthermore, there was a French website similar to saynoto0870 which published the geographic equivalents of premium rate numbers.  It was shut down earlier this year because of "pressure by certain businesses"
http://www.geonumbers.com/fr/suspension.php
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Re: France is just as bad as the UK
Reply #9 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 11:21am
 
lompos wrote on Aug 14th, 2008 at 9:10am:
.....furthermore, there was a French website similar to saynoto0870 which published the geographic equivalents of premium rate numbers.  It was shut down earlier this year because of "pressure by certain businesses"
http://www.geonumbers.com/fr/suspension.php

This is a shame; the subtext is that personal pressure was put on the author.

I am sure the European Commissioner for Telecoms would be very interested in this story...
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Reply #10 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:02pm
 
I'm sure that if we could somehow contact the French website owner that we could possibly see a way around this. Like maybe hosting it ourselves under a separate flag of convenience !?

What could the French businesses do about that !! Roll Eyes
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Spanish premium rate numbers
Reply #11 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:14pm
 
Can I ask for advice from the forum-I have been asked to dial a Spanish number +34 91 322 6824 (government department in Spain) which I believe may be a premium rate number. Can anybody give me advice on how Spanish premium rate numbers are formatted and any idea of the price? I have tried to Google for the information but could not seem to obtain it. Many thanks for any information that can be supplied.
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Reply #12 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:35pm
 
Have a look here.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B34


This should tell you every thing you want to know.

803..806...807 & 907 seem to be the premium rate numbers.
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Reply #13 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 2:03pm
 
redant wrote on Aug 14th, 2008 at 1:14pm:
Can I ask for advice from the forum-I have been asked to dial a Spanish number +34 91 322 6824 (government department in Spain) which I believe may be a premium rate number. …

I have joined your thread to the existing one on overseas Saynoto0870-type sites. See above for an example.
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Reply #14 - Aug 14th, 2008 at 3:56pm
 
+34 91
Madrid. When Spain renumbered all geographic codes took a leading 9.
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