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Calls to 101 soon to be free-to-caller?

Ian011 · 2019-05-15 11:00:14

Calls to the Police non-emergency number on 101 currently cost 15p per call, a figure agreed between the Home Office and telecoms providers back in 2012. This fee covers the cost of connecting calls to the system. The police then pay an additional per-minute rate to route these calls to the correct destination. For those…

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Ian011 Posts: 2,432 Forumite

28 May 2019 at 6:05PM

Presumably, they would not be able to find the five million quid to fund this without taking five million quid away from something else and so this new funding is going to take effect from the start of the new financial year.

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