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Premium Rate Phone Charges and Revenue Sharing Numbers within the NHS

Many businesses use premium rate numbers as money making scheme. Ringing premium rate numbers can cost up to ten pence per minute. One phone call of over five minutes can generate businesses 5p per/min at peak rate. For the whole year in average this can bring in approx £300,000 as big businesses deal with at least 3000 calls per day. Many businesses make enough money through these numbers to pay the salary of most of their staffs. This can be seen as a negativity and also positivity as this is an area of opportunity to build your business and take it to the next level if your business provides the services which people require in their daily life because they will for sure ring these numbers even if it costs them.

Examples of premium rate numbers are 0870 numbers, 0845 numbers, 0871 numbers and 0844 numbers. Most businesses these days are targeting this number as it is an opportunity to generate money. One example of making money is use this number as your technical support as many IT companies in UK currently do.. After you ring the number you have to wait in the cue for god knows how long but it is guaranteed to be atleast 10 minutes holding for someone to be on the other end then some more time to tell them about the problem and then to fix it.

IT is also very rare that the calls to these numbers are free through your home telephone package or even work. Many mobile networks do not even provide free minutes to ring 0808 or 0800 numbers so calling 0870, 0845, 0844 numbers will be more expensive. BT and some other network providers are starting to include 0845 and 0870 in some of their packages but do not apply to 0844 and 0871 numbers.