Oz Warren

For those of you that don't know, when you phone an 0845/0870 customer services (ha!) line for companies like utilities, broadband providers etc. from a mobile phone, you often get charged quite big money for it. That's because it isn't covered within your monthly allocation of minutes.

One way round this is to use a service like saynoto0870.com to look up the local area code number that the 0870/0845 actually directs to. All numbers will have a 'real' number behind them and because it's a 'normal' number, it's covered with your monthly allocation of minutes.

For example:

Sample Numbers

Saynoto0870.com also lists freephone numbers where they're available. I've been using the service for quite a while and it's pretty accurate virtually all of the time.