If you have inclusive geographic calls, then 03 should be covered by this. If they aren't, you need to complain to your mobile phone provider.

sherbert wrote on Nov 4^th, 2008 at 12:43pm:

No because, believe it or not, some of us don't fork out for a mobile contract and use PAYG. Seeing as it's effectively compulsory to have a landline, why would I also pay for a mobile conract when I can use my inclusive calls on my landline? For anyone on Virgin PAYG, it costs 15p/min for the first five minutes, then 5p/min afterwards to call the BBC's number (although of course it's nuts to use a PAYG mobile to make anything other than emergency calls).

None of this changes the fact that the BBC is wrong. They should simply say the number costs the same as an 01/02 number.

sherbert wrote on Nov 4^th, 2008 at 4:02pm:

Of course you do. They come from inclusive minutes which are part of the package paid for by the monthly fee (often referred to as "line rental"). The payment also subsidises the handset and any other services such as inclusive texts.

sherbert wrote on Nov 4^th, 2008 at 4:52pm:

Whilst it is true because all calls which are "inclusive" whether we are talking from landline or mobile have to be paid for by the telephone company retailing the calls, there are key differences.

Inclusive calls from landlines are "unlimited", although they may be limited to within a particular time period. Any "fair usage" policy is that high that in general terms, there is no finite limit on the number of minutes.

Mobile tariffs on the other hand have a limit on the number of minutes/texts and the price usually reflects this directly. What's more, outside of any minutes, the charges are usually broadly in line with that of pay as you go tariffs.

So the monthly fee the mobile providers like to call "line rental" does not actually reduce the cost of calls indefinately but for only a limited amount. It is therefore clear to see that the benefit received for paying this "line rental" is for the inclusive minutes and texts, handset and anything else.

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If you haven't got a "calls package" on your landline, then indeed these 03 calls *will* cost you up to 8ppm just as if you had dialled an 01 or 02 landline number at the same time of day.

It is 0800 and 0808 numbers that are completely free from a landline.

Dave wrote on Jun 6^th, 2009 at 11:41pm:

I wonder what their explanation of the caption at then end of each Newswatch programme is then?  If you could ever get them to reply that is.

Each time, it ends with the usual graphic of their new 0370 number - above a caption stating, "3p per minute from a landline".
 
Even for those using BT but without a calls package covering the time of their call, 3p per minute hasn't been the cost for some time now (IIRC, it's currently 4¼p and going up to 5¼p in October).
 
Head, wall, banging.  Commence.

Heinz wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2012 at 10:25am:



Maybe the thing to do is for members to ring the show and point out his error. If they receive enough calls they may anounce the correct number

Nice One!

We are getting there slowly but surely

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