DS Forums

 
 

056 Prefixed numbers-cost of dialling?


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 20-06-2009, 13:10
chinchin
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Great Britain
Posts: 32,514

A friend now has a second number allocated by BT which is prefixed by 056, Which I understand is a Voip service.

If I dialled it from a Post Office Homephone account how much would I pay for the call i.e. what is the tarriff?

I have tried the Ofcom website and asking Homephone without success. I understand that BT would set the cost. Cheers

PS I suspect I might pay a similar charge to e.g. 0845 or 0871 numbers.
chinchin is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 20-06-2009, 14:33
BT Support
BT Support
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 459
Hi. The BB Talk number (056) is a national number is is charged at the normal rates that your service provider charges for these calls
BT Support is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20-06-2009, 16:40
blueacid
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 1,532
Hi. The BB Talk number (056) is a national number is is charged at the normal rates that your service provider charges for these calls
National and local number pricing fell out ages ago though; it's just "UK Landline" or not. Does calling an 056 number come out of a mobile's free minutes, or any inclusive call package on a landline?
blueacid is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24-06-2009, 20:35
Appleseed
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 3,673
National and local number pricing fell out ages ago though; it's just "UK Landline" or not. Does calling an 056 number come out of a mobile's free minutes, or any inclusive call package on a landline?
They don't come out of mobile inclusive minutes, they are charged - and at a higher rate than calls to a landline number.

However - if that number is on a BT home hub, there is a local number assigned to it as well (in this case at least). The owner of the hub needs to log onto it. I can't remember the exact menu but I came across it when making some changes to a friend's hub, I spotted a local number listed in there and called it. It rang the hub phone.
Outgoing calls from the hub always show up as the '056' number though.
Appleseed is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 08-07-2009, 22:43
speckledhen
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 767
They don't come out of mobile inclusive minutes, they are charged - and at a higher rate than calls to a landline number.

However - if that number is on a BT home hub, there is a local number assigned to it as well (in this case at least). The owner of the hub needs to log onto it. I can't remember the exact menu but I came across it when making some changes to a friend's hub, I spotted a local number listed in there and called it. It rang the hub phone.
Outgoing calls from the hub always show up as the '056' number though.

A customer will only get allocated a geograpical number (ie same exchange number as the BB host number) if asked for at the point of ordering, if not you will be allocated a 056 prefix number.
If you have a 056 number you will not have a local number as an alternative, if you go into the setup of the latter HHs it will give you the BB talk number.
O/G calls from the hubphone will show as the allocated BB talk number unless you prefix the called number with a 5, in this case it will display the main pstn number given to the line.
speckledhen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-07-2009, 19:58
Appleseed
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 3,673
A customer will only get allocated a geograpical number (ie same exchange number as the BB host number) if asked for at the point of ordering, if not you will be allocated a 056 prefix number.
If you have a 056 number you will not have a local number as an alternative, if you go into the setup of the latter HHs it will give you the BB talk number.
O/G calls from the hubphone will show as the allocated BB talk number unless you prefix the called number with a 5, in this case it will display the main pstn number given to the line.
The hub that I looked at must be a one off then as they certainly haven't ordered a hub phone with a local number attached.
Appleseed is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 10:50.