Talk:Premium-rate telephone number

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This page ought to be categorized, otherwise it will never be found by most users. --Josiah 19:57, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Agreed -- I did a search on "900 number" today and it pulled up consecutive articles on the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Only by visually scanning the list to see "phone sex" did I finally find a link to this page. ALSO: One of my purposes in looking up the term is to see when these numbers began in the United States, for the article on "Friday Night Videos"; this information is not in the article, so if someone can provide a source, that would be terrific. -- Lawikitejana 05:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Ireland

In the Ireland section, I removed the fact that 1550 is reserved for recorded services (eircom.net phone support is a 1550 number) and that 1580 is for live services (Jamster's order line is a recorded service on 1580 number). Stifle (talk) 10:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I understand where you are coming from. Regtel which is mainly the source for this infromation has this to say: What are Premium Rate Services?.ant_ie 19:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] North America

I removed the ads of the three websites providing 1-900 services becuse they are one and the same company and because they are being widely accused of fraud all over the internet.

[edit] Australia

I don't ever recall the 0056 prefix, just 0055. I've removed the mention of it; can anyone educate me on this if they did in fact exist? Similarly, I don't recall ever seeing a 1-901 prefix, but have seen many a late-night TVC for "services of a sexual nature" via 1-902 numbers. A very quick Google brought up a media release by former Minister for Communications, Senator Richard Alston, in 1999 suggesting such sordid numbers be moved to 1-901 (and then a few down an NAB Product Disclosure Statement mentioning a 1-901 number, which I suspect would be of a financial rather than sexual nature)...  SEO75 [talk] 06:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "AT&T "looked the other way" in regards to adult services..."

That bit right there, under the section "North America", paragraph number five, sounds very weighted to me.

Seeing as how it doesn't cite any sources, what do you guys think about taking that part out? 71.238.211.166 (talk) 02:07, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 0870 and 0871 numbers in the UK

When 0870 numbers were introduced they were designated as "national rate numbers" and charged at 8 pence per minute. At that time this was the charge for a national telephone call. Since then this charge has reduced so that some companies are now offering free calls to national numbers. Having said that, many 0870 numbers are still advertised as "national rate numbers" - this has become misleading over time! 0871 numbers have always been charged at 10 pence per minute and are thus premium rate numbers. Having said that, they would therefore appear to fall outside the Ofcom numbering plan originally introduced by its predecessor Oftel which originally stated that all premium rate numbers would start with 09. Soarhead77 (talk) 11:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)