[Asterisk-biz] UK Toll Free

[Craig]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your expansion on my thoughts, 

Sorry I was only looking at peak times for my application and therefore
didn't talk about that in my short story. 

You are 100% correct and I am sure many looking for UK numbers may be
looking at off peak times, so thank you for your clarification.


craig


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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:20:32 +0100
From: Mike 'DarkFlib' Preston <darkflib at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] UK Toll Free
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
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The Uk has the concept of peak and off peak times which many on the
list will be unfamiliar with so much of what craig said only applies
some of the time.

see below

On Mar 31, 2005 12:46 AM, Craig <asterisk at nihost.net> wrote:
> To give you a breakdown on UK call costs (as I have been able to work
> out)...
> 
> 0870 numbers are what they call national numbers and cost the caller
> about 10p/min, You can get these from lots of places at no cost, cause
> the receiving party gets a cut from the carrier, which if you are
> getting reasonable call quantities you can get a cut off, people like
> British Airways use these Reservations and probably earn themselves 4
or
> 5p a min whilst they leave customers on hold, great deal if you can
get
> it.
> 

Generally charged at 8p/min during peaktimes 5p offpeak and 2p
weekends or somewhere in this region.
The owner of the number gets some revenue.  Generally about 3p/min
peak 1p offpeak and 0.4p at weekends
Normally this revenue is only passed on to large users of minutes.


> 0845 numbers are what they call local numbers and cost the caller
about
> 5p/min. Again the receiving party gets a cut from the carrier, which
> means if you look around you can get these for nothing (but probably
> won't earn any revenue).
 
costs: about 5p/min peak 2p/min offpeak
revenue: 0.6p/min peak and 0 offpeak

> 0800 numbers are in fact free (I gather to all callers, not sure about
> mobiles?) you will pay 3 or 4p a min to receive calls.

Free to caller, however some mobile networks will block 0800 numbers
for services that allow users to avoid call costs.. ie calling cards
etc.

Incoming costs around 2p/min peak and 1.3p/min offpeak



If the aim is to get revenue then 0871 is also a possibility. It costs
the callers 10p/min peak and offpeak and revenue is around 3.5p/minute

> 
> You might also consider a local geographic DID as I am told many
> consumers have call plans that provide very cheap calls to a local
> number anywhere in the UK, so in other words it is cheaper for people
to
> ring a geographic number on the other side of the country than ring a
> 0845 national number.


> 
> However as I said above, many of the big companies seem to get away
with
> the 0870 and I can only presume people ring them (maybe it is because
> their choices are limited) we went with an 0845 number, simply because
> we didn't want people using a 0800 number as an information service
> cause it is free. I would suggest you find out what the prefix is of
> your competitors and you will get an idea of how well it is accepted.
> 
> If anybody would like to add anything or correct any mistakes in my
> conclusions, please feel free to do so, as I said previously it is
only
> what I have worked out from information available, I don't claim to be
> an expert on UK termination, just somebody going through a similar
> exercise and offer some help back to users that have helped me.
> 
> Craig.

If you need any of uk numbers and are going to be shifting a lot of
minutes drop me a line and we can discuss your options.

Mike
Technomonk Industries


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