Quote:BT even admit to 0870 and 0871 being Premium numbers now.
Not on this
website they don't.
But then this is the website that cons big corporates to sign up for 0870, 0871, 0845 and 0844 numbers
The words used here are Contact Call (0844 & 0871), Lo-Call (0845) and National Call (0870). Now if the terms National Call and Lo-Call aren't deliberately designed to mislead customers then I don't know what is. The only straightforward term used is Freephone (0800 and 0808) which does what it says on the tin except from most mobile phones.
Also what's all this baloney about 3p per minute 0870 numbers. They cost 7.51p per minute with BT in the weekday daytime full stop. That's a universal BT weekday daytime rate and no different for any 0870 number with BT landlines on BT Options 1, 2 or 3. The only numbers that vary in price between different services providers on a BT line are 0871 (6p to 10p per minute) and 0844 (1p to 5p per minute). The prices for these numbers are set by the company you are calling and not by BT.