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In an earlier post, I wrote about calling 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers from Skype – basically the outcome was that you couldn’t and that you’d have to make use of the geographical alternatives provided here on SayNoTo1890.com.

When it comes to calling 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers from your mobile phone, the story is a little different. You’re perfectly free to call these numbers from your mobile, however, based on the information on the Call Costs page linked above, calling these numbers will cost you more than normal calls.

The first thing to note is that mobile calls to 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers do not get deducted from your inclusive minutes on your mobile contract package.

So, when you’re forced to pay for those minutes, you could end up paying between 3 and 6 times the cost of calling the same numbers from a landling. Check out the Call Costs page to see what it will cost you for the mobile package that you have.

However, if you use the geographical alternative numbers presented on this website instead of the 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers advertised by many companies, then you won’t have to pay any extra to make those calls. The minutes, because they’re to geographical numbers, will be deducted from your minutes in your phone contract package.

So, if you know geographical alternatives to 1890, 1850 or 0818 numbers that you personally use, and you’d like to share them with everyone, you can mail us here to let us know.

With all the changes to the site recently, I have now republished a new page detailing the cost of calling 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers from as many phone companies as we could find.

The Call Costs page in the main menu bar now shows the real costs of calling these numbers – particularly if your phone package has inclusive minutes.

Calls to 1850, 1890 and 0818 are not deducted from inclusive minutes on any phone minute packages provided by Irish telecoms companies (except for one).

This shows how beneficial it is that you are able to use geographical telephone numbers instead – it saves you money if you have an inclusive minutes package with your phone provider.

So, what can we do?

• The ideal thing we should be demanding is that our phone providers include these 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers in their inclusive minutes packages.

• Failing that, we should share any geographical alternative phone numbers that we know of with everyone else to allow us all save money on these calls.

And that’s what the SayNoTo1890.com website is for. If you know of any geographical alternative phone numbers that can be used instead of 1890, 1850 or 0818 numbers, e-mail us and we’ll share them with everyone else.

I wrote before about how the MoneySavingExpert had an interesting observation on how call centre operators in the UK were quoting the 0870 number (0870 being the UK equivalent of 1850 and 1890). According to the blog, from here:

Twice in the last week I’ve been given 0870 numbers to dial, yet rather than being told the number is 0870-123-123, both times it’s been told to me as 087-012-3123. Thus the call operator is never actually saying the phrase 0870. Cunning devils…

I don’t think this will be as easy to do in Ireland here, what with all our numbers beginning with zero – it won’t be so easy to “hide” a number quotes as 189-0123-123 or 185-0123-123. It might be a little easier to get away with it for the 0818 number – 081-8123-123 at least fits into the Irish formatting.

Of course, in Ireland at the moment, apart from this website, there’s very little comment or complaint about companies only providing 1850, 1890 or 0818 numbers.

So far, I have seen just one company print their number on their vans of 081-8…..  I think this is a little disingenuous by the company concerned.

Have you noticed this being done by anyone else? Let me know, and we’ll out them here!

On Tuesday of this week, just 24hours since I finally managed to get the SayNoTo1890.com listing of geographical alternative telephone numbers back up on the website I was alerted to a post on the website MoneyGuideIreland.com.

I’m not giving them a link because they’ve basically stolen almost the full contents of the SayNoTo1890.com website and the listing of numbers that’s been gathered by me and website users over the past 18 months.

I did ask that they at least give credit to where the numbers came from, but this was ignored. So, all I can say is that in future, ignore the thieving bastards at MoneyGuideIreland.com. All the information provided on that website is also available, and much more up to date as well, on the Financial Regulator website, ItsYourMoney.ie .

Stick to where you get the original website content – here on SayNoTo1890.com and on ValueIreland.com.

Update April 2nd - The MoneyGuideIreland.com website has eventually been change to remove the listing of numbers and to give due credit to SayNoTo1890.com.

We used to have a geographical number for Aer Lingus reservations, but we recently received an e-mail from a SayNoTo1890.com reader who told us that it was no longer working.

AER LINGUS. I have just tried the landline alternative and a voice message says the number is no longer in service, and then they trot out the 0818 number……..

We have since also received a request from another reader asking for the geographical alternative for Aer Lingus.

I had cause to ring Aer Lingus this weekend, who hide behing an 0818 number. My landline providers are either Euphony or Smart Telecom. Have you any idea what their charges are?

Do you know any number that will allow people bypass this 0818 number? Do you work for Aer Lingus and know how to get around it?

Let us know know by contacting us through our Contact Page and we’ll share it with everyone else. We won’t tell anyone where we found out from.

In an earlier post, I wrote about calling 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers from Skype – basically the outcome was that you couldn’t and that you’d have to make use of the geographical alternatives provided here on SayNoTo1890.com.

When it comes to calling 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers from your mobile phone, the story is a little different. You’re perfectly free to call these numbers from your mobile, however, based on the information on the Call Costs page linked above, calling these numbers will cost you more than normal calls.

The first thing to note is that mobile calls to 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers do not get deducted from your inclusive minutes on your mobile contract package.

So, when you’re forced to pay for those minutes, you could end up paying between 3 and 6 times the cost of calling the same numbers from a landling. Check out the Call Costs page to see what it will cost you for the mobile package that you have.

However, if you use the geographical alternative numbers presented on this website instead of the 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers advertised by many companies, then you won’t have to pay any extra to make those calls. The minutes, because they’re to geographical numbers, will be deducted from your minutes in your phone contract package.

So, if you know geographical alternatives to 1890, 1850 or 0818 numbers that you personally use, and you’d like to share them with everyone, you can mail us here to let us know.

Many thanks for your patience, and that’s to all those who e-mailed in, but finally now the geographical alternative numbers that we’ve gathered over the past 18 months are now available again.

Based on feedback received, they’re now all on one page – the A to Z page.

Don’t forget – if you have any other geographical alternative numbers for 1890, 0818 or 1850 numbers, e-mail me here and I’ll publish them to share with everyone else so we can all save a bit of cash whenever we need to call these numbers.

Well, almost. We now have the website layout and structre back in place – Wordpress upgrade completed, and hosting changed.

It’s still missing it’s content – the actual geographical alternative numbers.

I’m working on that at the moment, and will hopefully have those available within 24 hours.

Again, apologies for the inconvenience.

For anyone that might be looking for geographical alternative numbers to 1890, 1850 or 0818 numbers on www.SayNoTo1890.com, please note that it’s gone missing temporarily.

I was trying to upgrade the Wordpress platform and move hosting at the same time, and unfortunately screwed up. I still have all the numbers so it shouldn’t be too long before it’s back up online.

Apologies for the inconvenience.