Premium uk mobile number
 

When reading about another International SIM card service they advertised you would not have to "call Estonia mobile , Lichtenstein mobile , premium UK mobile numbers". Obviously Estonia and Lichtenstein refer to TravelSim and United Moble Cards -- what does the "premium UK mobile number" refer to? I know UM sells a card with a UK number -- is this it? Does it cost more to call a "premium UK mobile?"

The 07937 number that Um uses is very expensive to dial from inside the UK, so it may be considered a premium number. I think that is the definition

You mean that 7937 is more expensive (at least on average) than 7624/7924?

I am almost sure about this.

Let the British forumers tell about rates from UK to the crown dependencies. Perhaps it's not that bad...

I am also waiting for their response! I have asked a UK voip company and they told me that they do not connect because the incoming surcharge is too high...

I didn't realise that UM had launched these numbers yet, though I had heard the possibility rumoured a while ago

It's a Jersey number, as I said on a thread about Callblue.

Calling from UK contract mobiles (which although it's the situation least applicable to most members here it may help get behind the policies involved), some numbers may or may not be included in cross-network minutes.

Apart from Channel Islands and Isle of Man, there are other providers with numbers in this +447 series, some for wi-fi or other VoIP use, and there are some disputes here: particularly T-mobile blocks some of the VoIP numbers, as it objects to the termination charges; there is a case between them and Truphone at the moment.

Called from a BT landline, CI/IoM mobile numbers will be in a similar though not identical tariff range to UK mobiles, eg IoM 13.5p/min.

Some VoIP providers will have slightly different tariffs for various +44 mobiles - you can sometimes see O2, Orange etc listed separately, and we know that +4476 was a loophole for a certain service for a while

But many cheap calls providers, including any Betamax/Finarea ones that I've tried, count all +44 mobiles at the same rate, so you could for example set up a cheap call forward with JustVoip or Voipcheap.


I think that the description referred to in the OP, premium rate mobiles, is being a bit naughty as there isn't actually such a category, but is perhaps taking a sideways swipe at the fact that some suppliers have said UK numbers, when they are in fact IoM and Jersey numbers, and then ...

... UK mobile contract holders will experience whether these are from their inclusive minutes or not, and pay maybe 40 or 50p/min, but for international users, this will be of rather less or perhaps even no importance, depending on other providers you use in conjunction with it.


Aside - UK 070 numbers are not mobiles at all, but are so-called personal numbers (which may be forwarded to a mobile) and do have high tariffs, typically 50p/min. A certain voip blogger that spams all over the place removed my comment that these were not mobile numbers as he claimed, and that he might be better quallified to write on the subject if he'd been here even once in the last 6 or 7 years.