How to avoid paying for calls to Freephone Numbers from your Mobile.

pricefighter

If you are charged for calls to 0500/0800/0808 numbers from your mobile.You may be able to avoid them.

pre-dial have an unpublished,relatively unknown dial through access number
0200 222 0700 (Its a normal 020 geographical landline number and is charged accordingly).

If you dial it and then dial the freephone number it will put you through it only works solely for freephone numbers.It will also connect you to Intl freephone numbers.This means you can dial freephone numbers out of your inclusive minutes without being charged(or it could be cheaper to use it from your Payg phone then dialling freephone direct).

It doesnt work from T-Mobile,Virgin,Easymob.

So if you havent already got access to freephone eg Orange Contract(Not OVP),or some O2 contracts and bolts ons.You might be able to use it to save some money.

Handy perhaps if your fruity supplier has blocked your favourite 0800 access number,and you have inclusive landline 01/02 minutes

I understand that it is definitely working from 3,BT mob,Orange, and BT landlines.

gizmoleeds

I don't understand how this number works: 020 is the London area code, and so this number is effectively (020) 0222-0700 - but a number can't begin with a 0 (as this indicates you are dialling an area code, so Londoners calling it would dial 02220700 ???) I thought numbers could only begin with 2 - 9. But, it works - how

It doesn't work from a landline, so the mobile operators must have let them set up this number on an unofficial area code - how weird

rapido

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pricefighter

rapido wrote:

but you're right...subscriber numbers starting '0' are weird.

-rapido

But dont all Uk numbers start with an 0 anyway?

If you visit the site https://www.ukphoneinfo.com and use the code locator you will see they class 0200 as a London national dialling code.

gizmoleeds

pricefighter wrote:

But dont all Uk numbers start with an 0 anyway?

Area codes begin with 0 - 0113, 020, 01937 etc. Your actual number can't begin with an 0 though (normally).

For instance, if my number was 0113 0794 111 and I dialed 0794 111 the phone wouldn't know if I was calling a mobile number beginning 0794 111... or a local number 0794 111. Your actual number should only begin with 2 to 9.