Hi, yesterday I tried to phone a 090 national rate number (75p/min) but when I tried to call it, it came up saying 'calling ....' and then came up saying number barred and cancelled the call. I have a Nokia 6230i on online offpeak 300 tariff.

Do you know why I can't call those numbers and how to make it so I can?

Thank You.
Gareth.

090 aren't national numbers they are premium rate numbers.

Normally your network blocks all premium rate numbers unless you call up to lift the block.

The only national (and local) rate numbers there are, are those that begin 01 or 02.

0844, 0845, 0870, 0871 and 090x are all charged at higher rates than your standard local and national numbers.

If you can call other 090x numbers, but not this one, it could be the operator of the number has chosen to limit it to which networks it is offered on.

You need to have your premium bar removed. It will be on account by default from when you first purchased the contract.

O2 only allow calls up to £2.50, anything over this is super premium and cannot be called. Thus the number you have *should* be dialable once bar is removed.

You need to have been with o2 more than 1 month before they will remove the bar.

You really do have a bee in your bonnet about 0845 & 0870 numbers, dont you?
However, once again, your assertions are not quite correct.

Nice to see you acknowledging the existence of Local and National call rates now, although I'm not sure how they relate to mobile telephones - didn't local calls die out with Mercury one2one?

In mobile telephony, calls to 01 and 02 numbers are usually referred to as fixed line, landline, or geographic numbers.

Anyway, back to 0870 & 0845 numbers. The OP is on a O2 pay monthly tariff I believe from his earlier post. As such, calls to 0870 & 0845 are indeed charged at the same rate as calls to landline numbers (or decremented from the free call allowance).

See the O2 online pay monthly tariff information for complete details