In message , at 11:13:36
on Tue, 25 Jan 2011, David Cantrell remarked:
0845 is not premium rate (unless you have an exceptionally bad telco).
It jolly well is premium rate, if you use a mobile.
It's "more expensive" which is not the definition of "Premium Rate".

It's not merely "more expensive". It's "a lot more expensive". It
costs more than several 09whatever numbers do to call from a land line.

I often feel that people have been lulled into a sense of false security
by so many "bundled minutes" plans on mobiles (and fixed line phones
have them too these days). The underlying cost of mobile calls is *much*
greater than landline ones, that's just something we have to live with.
My provider (Virgin PAYG) would charge you 31p a minute to call a
geographic landline, for example.

Therefore it is premium rate. That's premium rate by sensible
definitions, as opposed to OFCOM's definition.

OFCOM's definitions are there for a reason - so that we can all
distinguish between the different kinds of number. And Premium Rate
numbers are there primarily for the revenue stream and have stronger
regulation as a result. It's that aspect which distinguishes them, not
the price as-such.

0845, 0870 etc numbers have fundamentally different characteristics, and
thus a different name.

(If you want a transport analogy it'd be like calling Eurostar a "tube
train". The Chunnel is a tube, isn't it?)
--
Roland Perry