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March 16, 2008

Interesting observations on 1890/1850/1800 usage

SayNoTo1890

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I’m obviously catching up on old links that I’d found related to this site - this one from Michele Neylon in September last year. His comments as follows show an interesting dilemma for businesses thinking of getting 1850/1890 or 1800 numbers:

We are based outside Dublin, so for a lot of people there still is the mental block with ringing an 059 number instead of an 01 or a region free 1850 / 1890

I know from my perspective that I don’t really mind where a business is based, and given a choice, since I always use a mobile phone, I’d much rather the 059 compared to the 1850/1890 number.

On the flip side, I’ll mostly stay away from a business who only provide a mobile number as the contact number for the businesses. It may be a mental block as above, but if I’m going to be dealing with someone for business, I’d at least like to know they have somewhere I can call round to if I had to.

2 responses to "Interesting observations on 1890/1850/1800 usage"
blacknight said:
March 17, 2008

There’s two things to take into consideration:

1 - perception
2 - reality

We provide both the locall number and the normal 059 numbers on our site and everywhere else that we can.

The non-geographic number is important to us, as a lot of people seem to prefer the idea of companies based in Dublin.

Moving to an 1800 is simply not an option, as it would cost us a fortune.

The other option would be to use one of the other non-geographic numbers (0818?) but I’ve no idea if that is covered by people’s call plans or not.

Regards

Michele

Harry Hill said:
May 5, 2008

0818 numbers are not covered by call plans. They are classed as a premium number at 30 cent a minute.

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