What other numbers have you tried? I couldn't find any numbers in the database. 192.com reveals the following number - 020 7589 8989. Have you tried that?

This might be the Cablecom (Productions) which the Spanish Consulate refer to:

http://www.cablecom.com/

"Specialists in Telephone and Internet Marketing Applications" (and revenue generation from booking telephone numbers)

There is also a Cablecom Productions Ltd in London. Not much known about it but they have a contact number - 020 7409 1002.

guitarman wrote on Aug 27^th, 2008 at 8:35pm:


Hi Do you Spanish visa or schengen visa?
If you need Spanish visa then call that 09 number or if you need schengen via then try other embassy.....like France. its easy to get.....

Thanks

But at £1.50 per minute the geo number would be a closely guarded secret and to use the 09 number is probably the only way! Just from interest I do not recall having seen any alternatives for 09 numbers, are they set up in the same way as other non-geos? I have tried to speak to the Spanish Consulate re a Spanish NIE number, just keep getting in a loop but no human to speak to. The spanish preamble does give a number for Spaniards to dial, I did once manage to speak to an operator who gave me another number to dial which was unobtainable! Spanish bureaucracy grinds you down until you give up!

jgxenite wrote on Aug 30^th, 2008 at 2:07pm:


I had a big hunt once, couple of years ago,  for the underlying number for QuizCall's 09 number - after they took several calls which were destined for a chineese takeaway!!  I spent ages working on common misdialings of all the numbers I could find for takeaways of that name in their approximate area..    I note that their T&Cs now say they might ask for 'phone bills if they come to award a prize.  (I'm banned from entering, now, anyway, presumably after winnning too much on their free web entry route...)

lompos wrote on Aug 31^st, 2008 at 8:22am:


Well they've changed it all now, but time was you submitted a webform, and there was about a 1-in-20 chance of getting a call back from the studio, then you sat in a queue for a couple of mins, with maybe a further 1-in-20 chance of being put through to actually give your answer.   The "secret" to getting on-air was to submit LOTS of web entries, spread across multiple phone numbers, each with forward-on-busy to the next, so you never missed a call.

Of course, when you get through, you have to know the answer!  With the puzzles, once you worked out how they calculated the answers, this was fairly easy.  Of course, working out the method was pretty difficult - see here for examples of how TGBBQ calculated theirs - Quizcall was usually only slightly less cryptic.  Once they moved over to mostly guessing games (Name ten items starting with "B") then there was little point in entering.