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 essential for product based businesses as they are toll free lines. So how do 0800 numbers help businesses, some of the examples 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.Can also be used as live answering servicesCan use call data to find out moreabout your customersCan also be used for promotional campaigns and activities. You can track to see if there are any increase in enquiries from these numbers, outside of the actual location they are based in.Call management systems can be easily used to smarten up the way they deal with their clients or calls.

Private or personal numbers can be provided for their customers to easily remember the number and call them back.Calls from mobiles is one of the biggest disadvantage that a non geographic numbers have these days. 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 businesses use such as 0844 numbers, 0871 numbers, 0845 numbers and these days as we move forward towards
new technologies, there is a new VOIP telephony systems, well not that new anymore but reletively new to some businesses.