Hi everyone

I’d just like to say hello and that while I’ve used this site, as have many friends from other forums who keep on quoting it.  I never realised there was a forum on here too – just never looked I suppose!  They all know me as a bit of a blether!

Anyway I work for a large organisation and we have a considerable influence over a number of smaller organisations some of which have been the subject of mainly negative threads and posts on this site.  Please note that I did not say I had considerable influence!  Although I do have some.

I have been putting together a report for more senior people in the organisation about the use of 08????? numbers and in that was included a table, below.  

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               Cost To Caller (Peak) (Off-peak) Revenue (Peak) (Off-peak)
0844                              5p         5p             3p         3p

0845                              4p         1p

0870                              8p    4p/1.5p w/e         4p       0.5p

0871                             10p        10p           4.5p       4.5p

03 Cost to caller is the same (or less) than calling standard 01 and 02 ranges.

070                          24p–50p    16p–50p
                                        8p–50p w/e

0800                              0p         0p            0p          0p

0808                              0p         0p            0p          0p

09                          10p-150p   10p-150p     10p-60.5p   10p-60.5p
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I think, as part of this report, it would be useful to include to cost to people from mobile phones and from packages people are able to get on their land lines.  If I could find out the range of prices this would add considerable weight to the report.

I also picked up, from the threads I read, that there were problems with telephoning to these numbers from abroad.  Is that all these numbers?  From all countries?

I knew the table wasn’t quite right as I wrote it, I have a mobile phone too, but didn’t know where to find the information.

I hope I can find it here with your help.




If this had been posted on any of the other forums I’m on I’m sure it would get a rather odd reaction, however as a rather specialised forum I’m hoping you'll understand.

Hope its nice where you are too!

Dave, in that table why is there no tariff for 0844 numbers on the "Landline Tariffs"  ?

derrick wrote on Jul 4^th, 2008 at 11:45am:

An 0844 number will fall into one of 35 different call types.

The most commonly used (in my experience) is "g6". This is the most expensive: 5p/min plus connection charge at all times from landlines.

We have also seen some recent examples of local authorities using "g21" - 3p/min.

Many published mobile tariffs do not specify their rates, simply giving a range.

I do not think that the integrity of Dave's tables would be compromised if he were to give the maximum, with an appropriate comment.

According to my local Cable supplier (Virgin Media) calls to 0844 numbers are charged at 7p per minute