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Since 2015 these numbers have a two-part charging structure. Call charges consist of a per-minute access charge levied by the caller's phone service provider, plus a service charge or 'premium' paid to the joint benefit of the organisation being called and their telecoms provider. [7]
From 1 July 2015, the charge for calls to 084, 087, 09 and 118 numbers has been simplified. It is split into two parts: An access charge, payable to the telephone service provider – e.g. BT, EE, Sky – plus a service charge paid to the company offering the service.
087x xxx xxxx - Service Charge of up to 13p per call and/or up to 13p per minute; 09xx xxx xxxx - Service Charge of up to £6.00 per call and/or up to £3.60 per minute [16] 118 xxx - Service Charge of up to £3.65 per call and/or up to £2.50 per minute, with an overall cap of £3.65 per 90 seconds of a call. [17]
UK Calling is the name given to the legislation introduced by Ofcom in July 2015 to make the cost of calling UK service numbers clearer for everyone. [1]The legislation was brought in due to the previous confusion surrounding service call charges, with the intention of making things simpler for the caller.
Call charges: these charges are variable and are used to pay for the cost of the equipment to route a call from the caller's exchange to the recipient's exchange. These call charges can be calculated on a fixed per call basis, a variable basis depending on the time or distance of the call, or a combination of the two.
Following regulatory reform by Ofcom in 2015, call charges for numbers starting 084, 087, 090, 091, 098 and 118 were split into two parts: an Access Charge set by and paid to the benefit of the caller's telephone provider and a Service Charge set by and paid to the benefit of the called party and their telephone provider.
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They are free of charge if called from a mobile phone or a land line. The "1860" prefix followed by seven digits is used for local-rate numbers. The calling party pays the local rate and the called party pays long-distance call charges (if any). In Indonesia, the toll-free prefix is "0800-1", followed by a six-digit number.