Say NO to 0870

I am someone who doesn't have a landline because with being a student it isn't really necessary for me as I have a contract phone that offers me a lot of free minutes anyway. However, when it comes to dealing with problems with companies like insurance, student loans and so on there is no such thing as avoiding their 0800 numbers which charge my mobile an extortionate amount. It wasn't until a friend mentioned a website to me which they thought was called 0800 which apparently gives an alternative landline option so that you don't get charged as much. For me this was great as I get hundreds of ... more

If a survey were done to find the invention of modern times with the greatest irritation factor, I have little doubt that at the top of the list the would be the telephone - not just the mobile phone, though that would have a special place of its own, but phones in general. It's a sad fact of human existence that every new invention of any significance will be used not only for our common good but also to exploit, subjugate or defraud other human beings. In the case of the phone, think of all those whose work goes home with them and who seem to be on call all day every day, even when they are ... more

This is a site well knowing. I got told about this website some time ago now and have used it ever since. Do you do telephone banking? Maybe call Sky, AOL tech support or other business numbers? If so then this site is for you. This site will look up any business numbers for you and turn them into non-geographical numbers including alternative free phone numbers if avaliable. I get free calls from my mobile to land-line numbers and do a lot of telephone banking. However telephone banking costs a lot from my mobile as it's an 08745 number. When entering this phone number into the site it gave ... more

*~*~*INTRODUCTION*~*~* I first stumbled across the website www.saynoto0870.co.uk when I managed to rack up a huge bill on the phone to my bank. I had to call a 0870 number ask a query. As I do not pay the bills I lack the knowledge that these numbers are a) expensive and b) sometimes unnecessary. My dad told me about this website explaining that alternative numbers are placed on a database to cut the cost of phone calls. I visited the site and was amazed to see that the premium /expensive numbers used by Orange, Barclays and my teaching agency were in fact unnecessary as there were alternative ... more