Calling 0800 telephone numbers from your mobile phone could soon be free after Ofcom announced plans to ban the charging practice. At present, mobile users pay up to 40p a minute to call 0800 numbers, ...

Virgin Media is tackling the problem of expensive customer service calls with the new VIP Plus deal including free 0800 numbers. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was ...

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Over the past 18 months, the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has been working hard to simplify the costs associated with calling premium and freephone numbers from a mobile device. Today, it has ...

It’s always been somewhat puzzling that we have to pay to dial a freecall number from a mobile phone. Those 0800 numbers are free to call from a landline, so why not from a mobile too? From June 2015, ...

Mobile provider Three is making calls to 0800, 0808 and 0500 numbers free, while it's also cutting the cost of dialling all other 08 numbers. But customers will have to take out a new contract to take ...

Before dialling an unfamiliar service number, many of us feel an overwhelming sense of dread. Not just for 0800 and 0808 "freephone" numbers, which are now free to call from a mobile, but numbers ...

Mobile users can call 0800 numbers and any other 080 number for free from Wednesday, as part of a massive shakeup to the telecoms industry by the regulator. The change means it no longer costs those ...