Whose Phone Number Is This?

Calling premium rate number is expensive, why you should avoid it

February 1st, 2010

Premium rate numbers provide various different services, such as call tracking hence they are also very expensive. Some of the examples of premium rate numbers are 0871 numbers and 0870 numbers. These numbers can cost upto 10p p/min to call.

I have listed some of the price examples to these numbers.

Calling 0870 numbers can cost upto 10p per minute. Peak time calls will costs 5 pence from BT, 4 pence from talk talk, 10 pence from Virgin and 5 pence from Sky.

Calls to 0871 numbers costs upto 11p p/m. Peak time costs to this number costs 10 pence from BT, 10 pence from Virgin, talk talk and Sky per minute.

There are other premium rate numbers such as 0845 and 0844 numbers call can costs upto 7 pence p/min.

So even after these numbers being so expensive why do companies use them?

Simply because they are money makers for businesses. One phone call of over 5 minutes to these numbers can earn your business upto 4 pence per minute at peak rate, and within a whole year this can make upto £250,000 a year as big businesses atleast deal with approximately 2000 to 3000 calls per day.

Some people have suffered a huge bills through these numbers. Here is an example of getting your money back, companies you have rang through these numbers in regards to any complaints, then you can ask them for a refund of your call.

In the mean time you can also contact your phone provider and ask them to temporarily suspend the part of your bill till this problem is sorted. This is certainly worth a try.

You can also visit Otelo and Cisas’s Website to seek advice and help in regards to your situation.

The best solution to avoid expensive phone bills is to stop calling these premium rate numbers.

Then after few months you will see the difference in your phone bills, that how it has decreased from over the top graph to the low level where it should have been in the first place.

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