[asterisk-biz] Termination to 44780, UK Premium?

[jay kordic]

I do have UK Code 44870 currently @ .142/minute (USD).However, this rate is
wholesale and would need appropriate wholesale type volumes. Please contact
me and I can get more specific. Maybe you will have other A-Z traffic to
send as well!

Jay Kordic
The Horizon Group
Wholesale/Retail VOIP and TDM services
951-780-3131 (office)
951-850-0887 (mobile)
515-322-0273 (fax)
MSN IM-jaykordic at hotmail.com
Yahoo IM-jaykordic at yahoo.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Linus Surguy
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:57 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Termination to 44780, UK Premium?

>> +44 870 is technically 'shared cost' and not 'premium'. In country 
>> interconnect settlement rates for this are around GBP 0.065/0.034/0.015, 
>> so if you manage to get better than this don't rely on the route sticking

>> around as it will be below cost.
>
>  Shared cost?  Where can I read more about these numbers?
>
>  Right now the only rate I have from the providers I use is USD$0.36/min.
>  Another provider, while publishing a rate of 0.0141, informed me after
>  calls failed that, oh yeah, our upstream provider is blocking those
>  numbers because they are premium.  Joy.

A [very] simplified version of the UK numbering plan is:

+44 1 & 2 : Normal landline numbers
+44 3 & 4 : Not used at the moment
+44 500   : Tollfree
+44 55 & 56 : Numbers for VoIP subscribers
+44 70 : 'Personal' Numbers - designed for forwarding to other phones, costs

between GBP0.1 and GBP0.5/min
+44 76/77/78/79 : Mobile
+44 800 & 808 : Tollfree
+44 844/845/870/871 : 'Shared cost' - mainly business contact numbers, 
retail cost < GBP0.10, but more expensive than most people pay for a 
landline
+44 9 : Premium. Up to GBP1.50 per minute

A lot of international carriers classify +44 8 anything as either premium or

mobile and charge a high rate or block it.

If these numbers are important to you, it might make sense to terminate 
these on a UK carrier - we can do this for you, but do need wholesale 
volumes and so you'd probably have to send us some other traffic too. If you

are interested, drop the team at sales at magrathea-telecom.co.uk a line.

Linus

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