Tag: confirms – DIDcomms

Life after Ofcom’s 3% rule

Posted on December 18, 2018May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Uncertainty, we are told, is bad for business. Uncertainty over Brexit is bad, uncertainty over exchange rates is bad, uncertainty over unpredictable world leaders is bad. As of March 1st 2017, there’s a new type of uncertainty being introduced into the world of outbound calling. The previously clear guideline of a 3% maximum abandoned call rate is set to silently disappear overnight on the 28th F...
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Ofcom confirms free of charge 0800 numbers from mobile phones

Posted on February 17, 2017June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Telecoms watchdog says overhaul clarifying costs of non-geographic numbers makes 0808 and 116 lines free too Freephone numbers are to become free of charge from mobiles under an overhaul designed to clarify telephone call charges and dialling codes, the regulator, Ofcom, has confirmed. The telecoms watchdog said that from June 2015, "freephone will mean free" for 0800, 0808 and 116 numbers –...
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Ofcom confirms free of charge 0800 numbers from mobile phones

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Daniel Kobale

Freephone numbers are to become free of charge from mobiles under an overhaul designed to clarify telephone call charges and dialling codes, the regulator,Ofcom, has confirmed. The telecoms watchdog said that from June 2015, "freephone will mean free" for 0800, 0808 and 116 numbers – which at present are free only when used in a landline, and which cost mobile phone user...
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