redant wrote on Aug 14^th, 2008 at 1:14pm:


The equivalent of 084/7 covert revenue sharing numbers in Spain begin with the area codes 901 and 902.  Cheap 1p per minute landline call carriers to Spain like www.18185.co.uk by and large refuse to carry calls to these numbers.  Most of the large Spanish organisations with call centres now regrettably use 901 and 902 prefixed numbers.

The equivalent website to www.saynoto0870.com for these Spanish 901 and 902 numbers is http://nomasnumeros900.com/

Unfortunately at present they do not seem to have geographic alternatives for as high a percentage of Spanish 901 and 902 numbers as this website does for our 084/7 numbers.  But at least there is a website and the problem has been recognised.

By the way our family has an apartment in Spain so I regularly have to find ways to avoid dialling 901 and 902 prefixed Spanish numbers.

So far as I know 913 is a normal Spanish area code for Madrid.  According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B34 area codes 911 to 988 are all regular Spanish geographic area codes.  It is only area codes 900 to 909 that are non geographic but each one of these codes implies a different call tariff.  Confusingly both 800 and 900 prefixed numbers are Freephone, 901, 902, 908 and 909 are the equivalent of 084/7  NTS and 803, 806, 807 and 905 and 907 seem to be used for what we might consider to be Premium Rate very high cost revenue sharing applications.

However the mix of numbering is such that the Spanish telcos have done an even better job of confusing, dividing and ruling with hidden covert revenue share number prefixes than the British ones have.