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Save money on UK non-geographic phone calls
As some of you will know, I've been overhauling our phone bills recently. We've exchanged home highway for broadband which has cut a large chunk. I've signed up with 1899 and call18866 which have great savings. The only big hassle left was non-geographic phone numbers. The ones starting 0870 and 0845 (and 0800, but those are free as long as you use BT when you're calling).
0870 in particular can be very expensive. A lot of companies have 0870 numbers and get part of the money from the call. They're nowhere as bad as premium rate numbers or calls to mobiles, but they can still cost you 7p a minute during the day and cost even more if you call them via phone providers other than BT. (you've really got to watch out for them if you use any other service)
However, I have discovered this wonderful web site
http://www.saynoto0870.com/
It lists all the alternatives it can find to 0870 numbers. I've already used it twice today, to call the customer service about my son's computer (it was his 20 min call to them at the weekend on an 0870 number that sparked my determination to find an alternative) and to get information about online banking from NatWest. In both cases, this site had a valid freephone number instead of the one on the invoice/bank statement.
0870 in particular can be very expensive. A lot of companies have 0870 numbers and get part of the money from the call. They're nowhere as bad as premium rate numbers or calls to mobiles, but they can still cost you 7p a minute during the day and cost even more if you call them via phone providers other than BT. (you've really got to watch out for them if you use any other service)
However, I have discovered this wonderful web site
http://www.saynoto0870.com/
It lists all the alternatives it can find to 0870 numbers. I've already used it twice today, to call the customer service about my son's computer (it was his 20 min call to them at the weekend on an 0870 number that sparked my determination to find an alternative) and to get information about online banking from NatWest. In both cases, this site had a valid freephone number instead of the one on the invoice/bank statement.