[asterisk-biz] Need a UK 0800 Number.

[Steve Kennedy]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:06:52PM -0500, Phil Adie wrote:

> There is no such thing as a flat rate 0800 service in the UK. It is 
> billed on a per minute basis.
> Your options are local rate 0845 which the customers pays the equivalent 
> per minute charge of a local or 0870 which is time of day based on a 
> long distance call across the UK. The provider will collect settlement 
> on these calls and may share them with you with significant volume.

The rules on 084x/087x are changing and operators will have to pre-announce
the call rate ... there's been a slight delay as Ofcom have found some
alarm systems that use those ranges.

03 numbers will come into use which are UK national local call rates
(with no revenue share).


Steve

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