In the UK 0800 numbers are free of charge to call and are also known an non geographic numbers. Most widely used by Charities for fundraising.

0800 numbers are also known as toll free numbers. Some examples of how 0800 can be of advantage to businesses are as follows: 0800 number encourages useful feedback
from your customers.

Increase the number of business contacts as it is a free number, customers get encouraged to call it.Also can be used for live answering service0800 numbers can use call data to find more knowledge about your customersThese numbers are used to support promotional campaigns, marketing activities and loyalty programmes. Businesses that use non-geographic numbers are likely to see an increase in enquiries from outside of the actual location they are based.Another advantage of all non-geographic numbers is that call management systems can be easily used alongside them to help businesses smarten up the way they deal with their calls.

Businesses or organisations call also choose their own number which callers can remember easily and therefore will keep returning the calls.The biggest disadvantage is the cost of call from mobiles. The calls from mobiles phone will obviously increase as we forward to a modern and fast moving world, currently a call to 0800 number call costs upto 20p per minute.

Whereas other
than 0800 numbers there are other premium rate numbers than 0800, there are other that businesses use, like; 0808, 0871, 0844 and 0845 numbers and these days VOIP telephony are becoming more and more popular in businesses.