Engagement in this forum, strong support for the principle of 03 numbers and promotion of their use by public services has been shown by the company that presents its offer here.

It could be worth asking how their prices compare with those offered by others.

One must hope that the cheapest prices are found in the deal done by BT and the Central Office of Information to provide public bodies with 0300 numbers.

From my limited understanding, there are basically two ways of delivering calls received to a 03 number. You can either:

1. Route it to your geographic landline number or mobile. These will usually cost you relative to the volume of call minutes going through the 03 number, and forwarding it to your mobile will be more expensive than forwarding it to your landline.

2. Receive calls over the internet using a VoIP phone, usually with no incoming call charges, although you may have to pay a service fee.


Not all 03 providers support the second option and in those cases you would likely be stuck with paying for all calls received. The provider suggested by jgxenite offers both VoIP delivery and routing to another normal telephone number.