What are Non-Geographic Numbers?
Non Geographic Numbers (or NGNs) are numbers beginning with 0800, 0808, 0844, 0845, 0871 and premium rate '09' numbers.
Non Geographic Numbers are useful to both business' and individuals and allow you to keep the number regardless of office or house moves, you simply update your forwarding number via our NumberControl platform and our systems take care of the change over, usually within a matter of minutes!
We offer pre-pay accounts with no minimum spend for numbers with low usage and post-pay (invoiced) accounts with a minimum spend of £12.00 per year.
0800 and 0808 Freephone Numbers
Using Freephone numbers (starting 0800 and 0808), callers do not pay for the call. The cost of the call is paid for by the number owner at a rate of 5p per minute.
If you receive calls from payphones to your freephone number there is a surcharge for these calls (please contact us for details). If you do not want to receive calls from payphones please let us know and we will disable this for your number(s).
Please get in touch if you expect a large volume of calls as volume discounts apply and could take your rates as low as 2p per minute!
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0845 Lo-Call Rate Numbers
Using Lo-Call Rate numbers, callers pay a rate of no more than 4.95p peak rate (and less of peak and at week-ends)*. Here, however, the cost of the call is shared between the caller and the service provider.
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0843 Fixed Rate and 0844 Fixed Rate Numbers
Choose from 3p, 4p or 5p per minute to the caller - any time - simplifying what they pay to contact you. These numbers provide a fixed revenue share and are well know as 'equal' to 0845 numbers by consumers.
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We can also supply 0844 numbers that cost the caller 1p or 2p per minute (anytime), these incur per minute charges and are not available online, please contact us for details and pricing.
0871/0872 Fixed Rate Numbers
0871, 0872 or fixed rate numbers cost the caller between 6p per minute to 10p per minute to call from most landlines.
These numbers allow for free diversion to UK and some international landlines and offer a lower cost alternative to 0845 and 0844 numbers for connecting calls to a UK mobile phone - keeping your number private but still allowing customers to contact you anywhere you're available.
Depending on the number you need your calls connected to these numbers may also a revenue share or rebate to the number owner for calls received - so you make money from your calls!
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You can find full details of our rates on our charges and rates page.