Business Phone Systems

Premium rate numbers are revenue generators for many businesses. Calling premium rate numbers can cost you upto 10 pence per minute. One phone call of over five minutes can generate businesses 5p per/min at peak rate. If you calculate this to the whole year it will come to be £300,000 a year as big businesses deal with approximately 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 whether it is a big business or small to medium sized business. One example of making money is use this number as your technical support as many IT companies in UK currently do.. Then calling for technical support can take from 30 - 60 minutes including being in the cue till the next helped is available, explaining your problem and then fixing it..

Another problem most of us have is it is very rare that calls to these numbers are free from your home telephone or work telephone like. That’s just through landline many mobile networks charge for calls to free numbers like 0808 and 0800 numbers so calling 0870, 0845, 0844 numbers will be even more expensive from mobiles. 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.