Phone Calls to IOM

Jaycee21

I've searched but not found what I want.

Does anyone know if phone calls from a BT landline are free, or are they charged at a different rate?

Sons g/f lives over there & its costing them a fortune in mobile calls, so I thought I'd check before I said use the house phone dear! :cool:

Thanks for your help. xx

Buzby

No - IOM & Channel Islands use codes that are dedicated to these areas and are the exceptions to the usual inclusive call rates to 01, 02 and 03. Whether you will be charged depends on the tariff you are on, so only your supplier can confirm whether these calls will be inclusive.

jhp

If you have a BT inclusive call bundle calls to Isle Of Man 01624 landline numbers are currently included. (This may be historical as Manx Telecom used to be part of BT.)

( Calls to the Channel Islands Guernsey, Jersey, Etc Etc are not included).

www.18185.co.uk do include them and Channel Islands as well for 5p per call via 18185.

parist

Three mobile have charged me for calling Barclays (Isle of Man)
This is from their website - which I looked up:

01624, 01524, 01481

Calls and texts from the UK to the Channel Islands (i.e. Jersey and Guernsey) and the Isle of Man are charged at international rates!!!!

£0.46 per minute to call and
up to £0.26 per text

How is one to remember these 01 numbers - when naturally one assumes all 01 prefixes are landline numbers within your monthly allowance.

Buzby

The trick is not to assume. Irrespective of OFCOMs suggestions there are always exceptions to the rule - and commercial enterprise is allowed to dictate the pricing.

It should have evolved from a subset of the UK +44 code into their own international routing - maybe this will come, but don't hold your breath.

DaveAA

The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey have always been anomolies, especially so with calls to or from mobiles.

Should Scotland ever become independant, it will be issued with a new telephone country code and calls to and from the remainder of the UK will become international calls.

While geographic area codes will be simple to reassign to the correct country code, quite how mobile telephone numbers will be carved up between the two country codes remains to be seen.

Organisations using non-geographic numbers will also need to make a choice as to which countries their numbers will work from.

Interesting times may be coming.

Buzby

Scotland may get an International Country Code after Independence, but an Internationsl call? I don't believe so. The system operated in Eire is a good example - anyone in the south calling the north does NOT need +44 and vice-versa for +353. A short routing code is all it takes, and the cost of the call the same national rate.

That's for landlines. Mobiles? Since all of Ireland's networks are providers here, that shouldn't be an issue - but I sure look forward to 070 bring blocked.

DaveAA

Yes, it will be an international call - a call made between two different countries.

Whether it is charged at international rates, or some other arrangement is made, is entirely another matter.

redux

parist wrote: »

Three mobile have charged me for calling Barclays (Isle of Man)
This is from their website - which I looked up:

01624, 01524, 01481

Calls and texts from the UK to the Channel Islands (i.e. Jersey and Guernsey) and the Isle of Man are charged at international rates!!!!

£0.46 per minute to call and
up to £0.26 per text

How is one to remember these 01 numbers - when naturally one assumes all 01 prefixes are landline numbers within your monthly allowance.

Quite a lot of area codes are still derived from alphabetic order of exchange names

So with these

01624 ~ 01MA4
01534 ~ 01JE4
01481 ~ 01GU1

That won't help with the last of those digits, but may make it slightly easier.