http://martinstabe.disqus.com/enSun, 10 Apr 2005 16:48:04 -0000http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2005/04/10/non-geographical-phone-numbers/#comment-1927657I work for BT and will say this. A lot of people make stupid phonecalls to their doctors and other companies. If you phone someone, the company has to pay out £5,10,20 an hour to employ them - yet many phonecalls are unproductive for UK industry.<br><br>Because companies make such losses on calls they ship out the work to India. Phone calls to the NHS and doctors waste taxpayers money.<br><br>If the company/NHS can recover some of these losses (a mere 3.5p/min on 0870, so about £2/h) then that is a good thing.. the higher cost to the phone call (7p/min vs say 2p/min for a normal local geographic number) may also persuade people not to make nuisance calls.<br><br>It is just a consideration before people outright attack the 0870.MonjoSun, 10 Apr 2005 16:48:04 -0000