Make FREEPHONE free campaign!
You’ve probably detected a little frustration in the posts on this blog. It’s become a bit of a crusade really – this desire for a level playing field for fixed and mobile communications providers.
Unfortunately, more than 25 years since their introduction, 0800 “freephone” numbers are still not free when dialled from most UK mobile network operators. They are excluded from monthly bundled minutes and charged at a much higher rate than calls to 01/02 (geographic) numbers.
I’m thrilled that today Zimo’s Numberstore App has gone live in the iTunes App Store (link at the bottom of this post). The Numberstore App allows you to dial 0800 numbers as part of your network provider’s allowance. If you exceed your bundled minutes, they will be charged at the same rate as calls made to geographic numbers. The App is free to download and there are no charges for using the service. Calls to 0800 numbers are made via your iPhone and charged by your network provider at the same rate as those to geographic numbers. You will not be billed by Numberstore for calls to 0800 numbers.
Calls to freephone number ranges 0808 and 0500 are also supported within the App in exactly the same way.
Numberstore’s simple user interface allows you to dial straight out. There are no tricky IVR menus to navigate to take advantage of these huge cost savings. Numberstore is as simple as using your iPhone.
The next release of the Numberstore App will also allow calls to 0844, 0845 and 0871 numbers at substantially lower rates than those charged by the mobile networks. Follow @gtdab or @numberstore for information about the next release and other Zimo news.
DOWNLOAD THE FREE NUMBERSTORE APP » (iTunes App Store Link)
January 15th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
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January 18th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:27 pm
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