NGMsGhost wrote on Feb 8
th, 2009 at 12:18pm:
By the way I have noticed that lately 18185.co.uk is saying it is charging 3p per minute to call US 1-800 numbers compared to only 0.5p per minute to a normal US landline.
So it seems the issue of NGNs costing more to call than GNs is after all beginning to afflict some parts of the US telephony system. Although many companies with 1-800 numbers do also list a "local number" (suggesting this problem must also afflict Americans too) not all of them do so.
No, there is no such affliction; 1-800 numbers are tollfree, which translated into English means free
From here, some of the Betamax VoIP brands eg Justvoip have such calls free, or use Sipbroker callthrough