0871 numbers

shazspice

Are numbers beginning 0871 a freephone number?

Voyager2002

shazspice wrote: »

Are numbers beginning 0871 a freephone number?

Free to you: provided you are using someone else's phone!

Seriously: they are horribly expensive, and not to be confused with 0800 numbers, which are free.

DonnyDave

shazspice wrote: »

Are numbers beginning 0871 a freephone number?

NO!!!!

Different 0871 numbers are charged at different rates from BT landlines. The highest rate is 10p/min at all times.

JohalaReewi

DonnyDave wrote: »

NO!!!!

Different 0871 numbers are charged at different rates from BT landlines. The highest rate is 10p/min at all times.

Nearly all of them are 10p a minute from a BT landland at all times (a few are less but nobody seems to use them). You are very likely to pay more than 10p a minute if phoning from anything other than a BT landline (eg a mobile phone or phone box). The person you are calling gets a substantial cut of the call revenue (can be as much as 6p a minute).

BritBrat

Ooop's had wrong number.

Blonde moment.

Heinz

JohalaReewi wrote: »

Nearly all of them are 10p a minute from a BT landland at all times (a few are less but nobody seems to use them). You are very likely to pay more than 10p a minute if phoning from anything other than a BT landline (eg a mobile phone or phone box). The person you are calling gets a substantial cut of the call revenue (can be as much as 6p a minute).

OTOH, 6p, 7p, 8p and 9p per minute rate (as well as the 10p/minute rate) 0871 numbers are used properly by some of the gateway call providers (see the MSE International Callchecker).