SayNoTo1890.com

I thought I’d referenced this article before, but an interesting post which is worth a read is here from 2007 from David Behan. I’ll quote the ending here, but check out the interesting points in the full article:

Businesses… if you really want to save customers money, get rid of the 1850/1890 numbers and get 1800 numbers instead. Consumers… don’t be fooled by these numbers and save the regular numbers to your phone instead.

Why aren’t the 1890/1850 numbers included in the free minutes? Probably because there’s a nice sum of money being collected every month that no one is giving out about! Is ComReg aware of it? Who knows? Is it making that much money to be giving out about? Once again, who knows? I just felt like ranting about it this morning but I’d love to know how much they scim off the top using these numbers!

How does that all make sense??? It doesn’t really. I believe it is a nice little scam by the phone companies to extract an extra bit of money from the punter. How to combat it? Businesses… if you really want to save customers money, get rid of the 1850/1890 numbers and get 1800 numbers instead. Consumers… don’t be fooled by these numbers and save the regular numbers to your phone instead.