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0800 numbers to be free from mobils
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http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/080...-mobiles-.html 'bout time too. it's ridiculous not only that they charge you, but that any call is out of bundle despite there being no termination charge. |
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0800Buster.
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You get charged for 0800 numbers on mobiles?
My MVNO doesn't charge a penny for calls to 0800 numbers. |
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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. |
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Good news if approved, yet I imagine the networks will add charges elsewhere to regain the revenue lost from 0800 calls.
Some 0800 numbers are already free to certain voluntary organisations and most networks offer free calls to the DWP's 0800 numbers. |
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Bout bloody time n all. Robbing %*^$£"@
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0800 numbers are free with my provider already.
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0800 numbers are free with my provider already.
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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. |
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I get free 0800 on my Orange contract and inclusive 0800 on my Vodafone phone
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It costs them less to carry a call to an 0800 number than it does to a 01/02/03 geographic number.
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Don't believe you! The reason that 0800 is free to the user is due to HIGHER termination charges!
The whole point of them is that the recipient of the call pays, not the originator. Then again, looking at it, that was simply what Ofcom proposed several years ago and is now only finally deciding on. |
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Hopefully they wil do something about 0845 & 0870 charges from mobiles too...
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fab news for users of helplines. Free will actually mean free. (though a few of the big ones have already successfully leaned on the networks to be an exception to the rule)
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About time too.
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Hopefully they wil do something about 0845 & 0870 charges from mobiles too...
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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. Quote:
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. Quote:
Don't believe you! The reason that 0800 is free to the user is due to HIGHER termination charges!
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. |
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on a similar note. saynoto0870.com always check that first so l can ring a 01/02 instead and it comes out my free allowance.
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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. Quote:
so i on vodafone call someone on Three. Three charge vodafone a few pence a minute for delivering the call.
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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.
The most recent ruling by Ofcom has made it so that if the mobile operator charges more than 8.5p per minute to the customer for calling the 0800 number, BT is able to charge a termination fee. I don't think any network has regular call charges (of any kind) that low (except within allowances - and I don't know how the above rule applies to "inclusive" or "unlimited" minutes). EDIT: I see that Orange charges PAYG customers 7p per minute to call an 0800 number, so they're probably dodging the fee there. |
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