Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Your local police station is now listed as 101 which is meant to be 15p per minute from all networks.
Considering many had free calls beforehand I'm half wondering how many will now think twice about being helpful in future.”
funnily enough i noticed my police station had an 0845 number and refused to call them for years. they have now switched to 0345 so they are off my shit list.
Originally Posted by Daveoc64:
“This really is good news.
It's bad enough that they aren't free, but it's even worse that they don't deduct them from your allowance.
It costs them less to carry a call to an 0800 number than it does to a 01/02/03 geographic number.”
Originally Posted by BKM:
“Don't believe you! The reason that 0800 is free to the user is due to HIGHER termination charges!”
one of us misunderstands how this works....
termination charges are the fee charged by the destination network and billed to the originating network for delivering the call to the end user.
so i on vodafone call someone on Three. Three charge vodafone a few pence a minute for delivering the call.
the point about 0800 numbers is that there is no termination charge, the cost of terminating that call, it's route through the destination network is billed to the receiver.
hence it is cheaper for the network if you call an 0800 than if you call anyone else.