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Overseas equivalents of SAYNOTO0870.COM
Sep 3^rd, 2006 at 1:03pm

Say No to 0870 in French?

Mes amis, does anybody know if our cousins français 'ave a site similaire to ours?

There's a fracas brewing over zeer about Air France 'enhancing' its call centre services by changing from an 0802 prefix charged at a mere €0.15/min - to a four digit short number charged at an entirely reasonable €0.34/min. What's more, the four digit short number will lead to a menu giving a choice of three services each of which you could dial directly before Grin

Plus ca change - plus c'est la même chose!

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Re: Say No to 0870 in French?
Reply #1 - Sep 4^th, 2006 at 10:50pm

As far as I know, the UK is in the lead in Europe with this site. There are plenty of countries where the sheep pay over the odds fooled by names such as "service numbers" for cust to biz calls. Finland is a classic example where mobile and landline calls became so reasonable that companies jumped to 0x00 codes with connection and per min charges to reverse the price drops.

France is bad. Those 3xxx short codes for basics such as travel reservation at 34c/min run off voice-activated menus designed to keep the clock ticking. A pal with utility accounts in France spent ages digging up direct landline numbers since the ridiculous 0892 codes could almost all not be dialled from abroad - this is a clue that *many* French companies have alternatives but I have not seen a site listing them. Perhaps there's a need to translate this site's good aims into other languages with keywords to pull in a wider audience?

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chapdis Newbie Offline Posts: 3	Re: Say No to 0870 in French? Reply #2 - Jun 2^nd, 2007 at 8:36am have a look at http://www.geonumbers.com/ ; also for spain and belgium
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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Ireland - 1850/1890/0818 Reply #3 - Oct 12^th, 2007 at 3:48pm A similar website for numbers in Ireland is SayNoTo1890 and is even named after this website! The website has been created by Value Ireland and the news page says that it was launched on 4 September 2007.
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Overseas equivalents of "SayNoto0870.com" ??
Reply #4 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 11:58am

I am not quite sure what I am doing or even if I should ask this here but If not then I can't see where.

I live in Tenerife and in Spain the 0870 and 0850 are replaced by 901 and 902 (not necessarily in that order, or even as direct equivalents) I do not speak Spanish yet so I cannot look for the equivalent 'Say No ' site in spanish. Can you help by adding Spanish 901 and 902 numbers or telling me if there is an equivalent Spanish site. The problem is exactly the same here. What is the point of having free calls bundled with internet (which is much more expensive here than UK) when many numbers you need to call are excluded ? Undecided

Hope you can help

# Separate thread for better exposure
# Retitled to reflect the content ~ DaveM

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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: Spanish equivalent of "SayNoto0870.com" ?? Reply #5 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 1:19pm Site for Germany, Belgium and France: http://www.geonumbers.com/
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andy9 Supreme Member Offline Posts: 505	Re: Spanish equivalent of "SayNoto0870.com" ?? Reply #6 - Nov 12^th, 2007 at 12:57am for Netherlands: http://www.vraagalex.nl/index.php?p=anti maybe some useful ones there for from UK
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Reply #7 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 7:09am

I was in Paris recently and used a "Numero vert" freephone 080x number to access telephony services. I saw various advertisements with 081x and 082x numbers which I suspected were like the UK 084x and 087x numbers. No warning of charges.

This website is out of date but suggests that there is a problem:
http://www.beyond.fr/a/phone.html

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lompos Supreme Member Offline Posts: 791	Re: France is just as bad as the UK Reply #8 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 8:10am .....furthermore, there was a French website similar to saynoto0870 which published the geographic equivalents of premium rate numbers. It was shut down earlier this year because of "pressure by certain businesses" http://www.geonumbers.com/fr/suspension.php
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Re: France is just as bad as the UK
Reply #9 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 10:21am

lompos wrote on Aug 14^th, 2008 at 8:10am:

.....furthermore, there was a French website similar to saynoto0870 which published the geographic equivalents of premium rate numbers. It was shut down earlier this year because of "pressure by certain businesses"
http://www.geonumbers.com/fr/suspension.php

This is a shame; the subtext is that personal pressure was put on the author.

I am sure the European Commissioner for Telecoms would be very interested in this story...

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DaveM Global Moderator Offline Du vin, du pain, du Ibuprofen ¡ Posts: 845 Peterborough Gender:	Re: France is just as bad as the UK Reply #10 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 1:02pm I'm sure that if we could somehow contact the French website owner that we could possibly see a way around this. Like maybe hosting it ourselves under a separate flag of convenience !? What could the French businesses do about that !!
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Spanish premium rate numbers
Reply #11 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 12:14pm

Can I ask for advice from the forum-I have been asked to dial a Spanish number +34 91 322 6824 (government department in Spain) which I believe may be a premium rate number. Can anybody give me advice on how Spanish premium rate numbers are formatted and any idea of the price? I have tried to Google for the information but could not seem to obtain it. Many thanks for any information that can be supplied.

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sherbert Supreme Member Offline Posts: 2,011 Gender:	Re: Spanish premium rate numbers Reply #12 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 12:35pm Have a look here..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B34 This should tell you every thing you want to know. 803..806...807 & 907 seem to be the premium rate numbers.
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Reply #13 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 1:03pm

redant wrote on Aug 14^th, 2008 at 12:14pm:

Can I ask for advice from the forum-I have been asked to dial a Spanish number +34 91 322 6824 (government department in Spain) which I believe may be a premium rate number. …

I have joined your thread to the existing one on overseas Saynoto0870-type sites. See above for an example.

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Tanllan Supreme Member Offline Posts: 797 Gender:	Re: Overseas equivalents of SAYNOTO0870.COM Reply #14 - Aug 14^th, 2008 at 2:56pm +34 91 Madrid. When Spain renumbered all geographic codes took a leading 9.
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