A business number or non-geographic number is a telephone number with a specific prefix e.g. 0800, 0845, 0870 which can offer your business a number of advantages including:

• the ability for you to pay for your customers to be able to call you free of charge or conversely, for you to earn income from their call to you where appropriate
• effectively giving your company a national presence as you no longer publish your standard telephone number with area code
• your number is yours for life provided it remains in use, so there will be no need to re-communicate your number when national number codes change or you move premises

There are no connection charges, no monthly rental and no cancellation fees. Business numbers are quick and easy to implement within a few working days and existing business numbers can be ported to us from most carriers.

Freephone 0800/0808

Your customers can call you for free, wherever they are in the UK. - Increases response rates as prospects are far more likely to call

Local Rate 0845

Share the cost of a call with your customer.

National Rate 0870/0871

Earn money from your customers calling you. Maximum cost for 0871 is 10ppm. Where the demand for contact is guaranteed, let the customer pay for the call

Premium Rate

Callers are charged a premium rate ranging from 10p to £1.50 per minute. Premium numbers are normally used for value-added content services or support hotlines.

International

Have the ability to expand into the International market without the need for an International office.

A wide range of Response Services are available on all of the business numbers, allowing you, for example, to change the routing at any time of day so you can send the call wherever you want it to be answered.

Using the right number types for your business can help you increase responsiveness, reach individual target markets and improve customer service.

We can help you select the right number type from our wide range of freephone, lo-call rate, National rate, geographic and international number options.

Benefits

• Create a local presence wherever your customers are based geographically
• Ability to choose memorable or “golden” numbers to improve branding
• Choose between different types of numbers to compliment each area of the business
• Extremely effective method of measuring advertising campaigns and media exposure with dedicated response numbers
• Generate revenue from incoming calls. Can significantly reduced other running telecom costs
• Retain the number wherever you go in the UK to maintain consistency and reduce administration changes