Christian Little

Premium Rate Phone Charges and Revenue Sharing Numbers within the NHS

Many businesses use premium rate numbers as money making scheme. Calling premium rate numbers can cost you upto 10 pence per minute. One phone call of over 5 minutes to these numbers can earn businesses upto 5 pence per minute at peak rate. For the whole year in average this can bring in approx £300,000 as big businesses deal with at least 3000 calls per day. This amount generated can help businesses pay off the salaries of most people working for them. I am not saying it is a bad thing I am saying this is a great opportunity to build your business and take it to the next level if you have a service which people might use in regular basis then I highly recommend using these premium rate numbers.

Some of the examples of premium rate numbers are 0870 numbers, 0845 numbers, 0871 numbers and 0844 numbers. Most businesses these days are targeting this number as it is an opportunity to generate money. One prime example of making money through these numbers is many IT companies around the UK use premium rate numbers for their technical help line and you know for sure if you have problems with your computer you have to ring these numbers if you do not find a solution to fix your computer. Then calling for technical support can take from 30 – 60 minutes including being in the cue till the next helped is available, explaining your problem and then fixing it..

It is very rare that phone calls to these numbers are all inclusive in your landline contract unlike phone calls to local numbers or even mobile numbers. Many mobile networks do not even provide free minutes to ring 0808 or 0800 numbers so calling 0870, 0845, 0844 numbers will be even more expensive from mobiles. BT and some other network providers are starting to include 0845 and 0870 in some of their packages but do not apply to 0844 and 0871 numbers.