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0871 numbers

shazspice
shazspice Posts: 1,466 Forumite
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Are numbers beginning 0871 a freephone number?
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  • Voyager2002
    Voyager2002 Posts: 16,349 Forumite
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    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
    DonnyDave Posts: 1,579 Forumite
    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.
    Dave
    Say no to 0870!
  • JohalaReewi
    JohalaReewi Posts: 2,614 Forumite
    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
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    Ooop's had wrong number.

    Blonde moment.
  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
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    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).
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
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