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0800 (freephone) numbers allow your customers to call you from anywhere in the UK for free. The company receiving the call on the 0800 number pays all charges. 0800 Number, More Details ... |
0845 (lo-call or local rate) numbers allow your customers to call you from anywhere in the UK for the same cost as a local call, at BT's standard rates. Despite the caller only paying local rate charges the company receiving the call on a 0845 number do not incur any charges. Depending on your volume of calls you may even be eligible to receive a payment for each call you receive to the 0845 number. 0845 Number, More Details... |
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0870 (national rate) numbers allow your customers to call you from anywhere in the UK for the same cost as a national rate call, at BT's standard rates. The company receiving the call on a 0870 number do not incur any charges. You may even be eligible to receive a payment for each call you receive to the 0870 number. 0870 Number, More Details ... |
0871 (fixed rate national) numbers allow your customers to call you from anywhere in the UK for a fixed cost at all times, this is currently 10p per minute. The company receiving the call on a 0871 number do not incur any charges. You may even be eligible to receive a payment for each call you receive to the 0871 number. 0871 Number, More Details ... |
0800, 0845, 0870 & 0871 NGN's
Non geographic numbers (NGN's), as their name suggests, are numbers that are not specific to a physical area in the way numbers starting with 01 and 02 are. Common NGN's are 0800, 0845, 0870 & 0871 numbers.
NGN's are not supplied with a physical phone line, instead calls to a NGN are instantly rerouted (at the phone exchange) to an existing landline phone number. For this reason NGN's are also frequently referred to as Number Translation Services (NTS).
NGN's also allow you to make use of many value add services such as Divert on Busy, Voicemail, Call Queuing and a Virtual Switchboard. These value add services are not dependent on the equipment installed at your site or the location of your business. Therefore using NGN's it is possible to activate advanced telecom features without needing to incur the high charges of upgrading your existing telecoms infrastructure.
By using NGN's your customers will be able to call you from any where in the UK for the same cost. The cost they pay is not dependant on where they are in relation to where you are. The cost the caller pays is dependent on the type of NGN you use. The cost to the caller ranges from free (for 0800 freephone numbers) to 10p per minute (for 0871 fixed rate National calls) .
Traditionally the difference between what the caller actually paid & what they should have paid was billed to the company receiving the call. However (with the exception of 0800 freephone numbers) GTI Telecom unlike most other Telco's, including BT, do not pass any of these charges onto the company receiving the call. In fact depending on your call volumes we will pay you for every call you receive.
If you already have a NGN from another supplier you we can still help you. You can port an existing 08xx number to us & you will be able to turn a cost to your business of several thousand pounds per year into a revenue stream of several thousand pounds per year !!!
Benefits of 0800, 0845, 0870 & 0871 NGN's
Non geographic numbers offer companies several benefits over traditional area based numbers. These benefits include :-
- Give your company a national identity
- Present a more professional image to your customers
- Keep the same number even if you relocate your business
- NGN can very easily be redirected to another site or physical number
- Track the effectiveness of advertising
- Create an additional revenue stream for your company