While leafing through some old notes, I came across the following prices that BT quoted me sometime back in 1988 or so...

I was, at the time, running a multiline BBS in Stockport, but was planning a move to London, so was trying to see how much moving the phone lines and keeping the number would cost, or alternative access methods. In the end, I just shut it down, as it would have cost me too much.

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I'd almost forgotten about 0055 !  Anybody remember the chatlines on, e.g. 00550055 ? There was a big fuss because people were speding hours on them and running up huge call costs.  Huge being over £100 ....  somewhat easier to do that these days with £1.50/min premium rate lines!

I'm pretty sure this was before 0345 and 0990 (now 0845 and 0870) were available, otherwise I'd have had the prices for those.  The 0055/66/77 numbers were sort of the same thing, but they got some bad press. 

[this was aso before 00 was international, then it was 01 for London, 010 for international...]