September 11, 2008
There’s been lots of people coming to this site recently looking for the costs of calling various customer service 190* numbers. I wasn’t sure what they all meant, so I did some checking. Here is the listing for the companies to which these numbers are allocated.
| 1901 | Eircom |
| 1902 | TalkTalk |
| 1903 | Not Active |
| 1904 | BT Ireland |
| 1905 | Meteor |
| 1906 | SwiftCall |
| 1907 | Vodafone |
| 1908 | NTL / UPC |
| 1909 | O2 |
The theory behind these numbers is that they’re free for the customers of the networks themselves. So, for me, 1909 is free when I call from my mobile. Unsurprisingly I suppose, there is no information on the O2 website on how much it might cost me to call 1901, 1906 or any of the other numbers above. A quick check of the Vodafone and Eircom websites reveals the same scenario - 1907 is free for Vodafone BillPay customers, and 1901 is free for Eircom customers, but no cost information on calling the other numbers.
You should be aware that in some situations, you actually won’t be able to call some of these numbers if you’re on a different network.
