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Telephone numbers for calls that are charged at a higher than normal rate

Premium rate telephone numbers are telephone numbers that charge callers higher price rates for select services, including information and entertainment. A portion of the call fees is paid to the service provider, allowing premium calls to be an additional source of revenue for businesses. Tech support, psychic hotlines, and adult chat lines (e. g. dating and phone sex) are among the most popular kinds of premium rate phone services. Other services include directory enquiries, weather forecasts, competitions and ratings televoting (especially relating to television shows). Some businesses, e. g. low cost airlines, and diplomatic missions, such as the US Embassy in London or the UK Embassy in Washington, have also used premium rate phone numbers for calls from the general public. Premium calls are typically independent of the caller's area code. These telephone numbers are usually allocated based on a national telephone numbering plan that makes them easily distinguishable from non premium numbers; telephone companies often offer their customers the option to block calls from these number ranges, and in some jurisdictions, are required by law to offer blocking services. SMS (texting) also has a feature for premium rate services, however instead of standard telephone numbers, premium rate texting uses so called shortcodes, which are 4–6 digit numbers that work only for SMS.

In Egypt, premium rate numbers begin with the prefix 0900, and for mobile services it uses short numbers to call or to send SMS to(4 digits only).

In South Africa, premium rate SMS short codes are four or five digits long, starting with either '3' or '4'. Premium rate telephone services are regulated by The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and ranges from 0862 through 0869(increasing rates relating to the next digit after 086).

In Armenia, premium numbers start with 900, followed by six digits.

In Indonesia, premium numbers begin with 0809 and are marketed by Telkom as Japati, an acronym for Jaringan Pintar Nasional (National Smart Network). Due to the number's association with adult services (Telkom's dial up Internet service, Telkomnet Instan at 080989999 being a major exception) premium rate phone services have come under public scrutiny and regulatory crackdown, most notably in May 2015 following rash of spam text messages enticing mobile phone users to dial them.

In Japan, premium rate telephone number service was currently known as "Navi dial" and began with the prefix 0570 followed by six digits. The "DIAL Q2" service that's number had the prefix 0990 was ended operations in early 2013.

Premium rate numbers start with the prefix 060 followed by 7 or 8 digits. Some consumers do not know that numbers starting with 060 are premium rate numbers because 060 is mistaken for one of long distance area codes in Korea (there are 062, 061 and 063). They call back when they find that they miss a call to their mobile phones from a 060 number ending up paying for just making a call. 1588 #### and 1577 #### are not premium rate numbers per se. They are used by banks, insurance companies, nationwide restaurant chains, consumer electronics companies, online shopping malls and others for customer service and delivery order. In many cases, customers calling them are charged at a long distance rate without knowing that they are making a long distance call.

Premium rate numbers start with 1900; premium rate SMS have 4 digits starting with 4,5,6,7,8 and the 2nd digit decides the price (except 1400 1409 with variable prices from 3000 18000 VND per sms, reserved for charity and 156, 5656, 1414 which are free).

Premium rate numbers start with 0203, 0204 and 0209.

In many European countries, such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, it was common for organisations to operate customer service lines on premium rate numbers using prefixes that fall outside the scope of the country's premium rate number regulations. Therefore, in contrast to North America where customer service numbers are typically free of charge to the caller, consumers in Europe often used to pay a premium above the cost of a normal telephone call. The EU Consumer Rights Directive 2011/EU/83, which came into force on 13 June 2014, was intended to eliminate this pricing model, but the law's implementation and success varies widely from country to country.

The 0900 prefix is used for premium rate numbers that charge per minute and the 0901 prefix is used for premium rate numbers that charge by call. For adult content the prefix is 0930 for per minute tariffs and 0931 for event based tariffs.

Premium rate numbers in Belgium have the area codes 090x. 0900, 0902, 0903, 0904 (per minute – from 0.25 to 2.00 EUR)
0906, 0907 (adult services – per minute – from 0.25 to 2.00 EUR)
0905, 0909 (per call – from 0.25 to 31.00 EUR)
Call limited to 10 mins.

The 060 prefix is used for premium rate numbers in Croatia for non erotic and 064 prefix is used for erotic services.

Numbers starting with 900, 906, 909 and 976 are premium rate numbers. Other numbers beginning with "9" are allocated to certain organizations, such as 972 (Czech railways), 973 (Ministry of Defense), 974 (Ministry of Interior), 95x (other Ministries, government organizations, certain commercial subjects), 910 (VoIP nongeographic nomadic numbers).

Premium rate numbers in Denmark have the area codes 9013, 9050 and 9055/9056. The 9013 is for helplines and chat services, the 9050 (paid per call) is for TV Call in Shows and the 9055/9056 codes are for charitable organizations. However, the regulation is very strict. TDC is the only carrier offering these numbers, with MCXess and kwak Telecom offering numbers internationally. The regulator can be found at http://www. itst. dk/, a shortened English regulation is available here: Short Denmark Regulation.

Numbers starting with 0100, 0200, 0202, 0209, 0300, 0600, 0700, 0750, 0751, 0752, 0753, 0757, 0759, 100, 106 and 107 are premium rate numbers. The 0700 series is for entertainment, while 0600 is for services. Several other premium codes exist, sometimes confusing consumers, who may not know if they are calling a premium number or not. The Finnish Consumers' Association has repeatedly denounced the use of premium rate numbers.

Numbers starting with 08xx (International : +33 8( )) are special rate numbers. They range from toll free numbers (080x) to premium numbers (08Rx) (R from 1 to 9) (called Audiotel by France Telecom). There are also various moderately priced numbers (from about 0.03 to 0.15 €/minute) in the 081x and 082x ranges. Most of these numbers are not reachable from outside France. There are also special 4 digits numbers (national speed dial) in the form of 3xxx, for which billing rules can be the ones from any 08xx number, to the provider's choice. The split rule between different premium rate numbers is not clearly defined (premium rate information numbers and premium rate entertainment numbers). The regulator (ARCEP, previously ART) had issued a range for Telephony over xDSL in the 087x range, which might confuse consumers, as calls to these numbers are billed as local calls nationwide. Starting 20 December 2005, these have been changed to 09xx numbers, which are dedicated to VoIP. All 087x numbers have been converted to 09xx numbers by 15 December 2008.

Dedicated premium rate lines nowadays begin with the prefix 0900, the infamous 0190 prefix having been terminated on December 31, 2005. However, some premium services also use lines with the prefix 0137, which is supposedly reserved for planned simultaneous call in events, such as televoting. The digit after 0900 decides the kind of service offered, unlike 0190, where it determined the pricing. This is called offline billing and causes problems for coin telephones (where they are restricted entirely) or prepaid services. These are 1 for information, 3 for entertainment and 5 for "miscellaneous" (mostly adult entertainment). 0900 9 is reserved for dialers, which are heavily regulated, or to do payments by phone.

Premium numbers in Greece start with 901 (general purpose) and 909 (adult only services), followed by seven digits.

In Hungary, 06 90 and 06 91 followed by six digits are common premium rate numbers. SMS based services can also use short numbers such as 1781 and 17632.

Premium rate numbers begin with the prefix 15. These numbers provide a range of services from weather forecasting to adult dating. Adult type services shall only be provided using the access codes 1598 or 1599, with adult services of a sexual nature being restricted to the latter. Adult authentication is required from your network operator to access these numbers. All 15x numbers have officially quoted rates, set by the prefix, although telecom providers can charge an additional fee for carrying the call. 151x numbers are charged on a per call basis, all others on a per minute basis. In general the prices increase as the prefix number increases, within the call type range. Comreg is a body which monitors the premium rate services industry in Ireland. Although an independent body, it can impose sanctions, ban advertisements and ban services offered by providers. It is funded by a levy on providers.

There are many premium rate numbers, including anything starting with 89 using different fares. 0878 is also a premium rate number, reserved for polls run via telephone.

Premium numbers in The Netherlands start with 0900 (general purpose), 0906 (erotic entertainment) and 0909 (games and lotteries) followed by four or seven digits. When one dials such a nulnegenhonderdnummer it is enforced by law that the caller gets informed about the per minute rate. The Opta is the governing body that regulates premium rate services in the Netherlands. Starting June 2014 any 0900 number used for customer service purposes is regulated so that it is free to the caller, for if they buy the product, they also buy the right to contact consumer service.

Any telephone number starting with 82 (mostly 820/829) is charged at premium rates (82x xx xxx).

Numbers starting with 70, 30 and 40 are reserved for premium rate services. 700, 701, 707 and 300 are "general" premium rate services (usually charged per minute), 707 and 400 are assigned for tele voting, mass calls and so on (usually charged per call). Other numbers (702 706, 709, 301–309, 401 409) are reserved for future assignments. There are some other numbers in "shared costs" or "dial up services" ranges, which are charged at a quite high rates (comparable with lower cost premium rates): 8015, 8016, 207, 208. Effective on December 1, 2008, 300 and 400 numbers are changed into 703 and 704 respectively, freeing up the whole 30x and 40x range for the future assignments (non premium rate). This change will allow to accumulate all the premium rate services in the 700 709 range of numbers.

Premium numbers are in the 090xxxxxx 098xxxxxx range. Currently, only the 0900 block is used. Prior to 2002, all numbers starting with 89 were premium rate numbers. Some of those number remain as local premium numbers, and the 02xx89xxxxx block remains reserved.

809 and 803 (paid per call, less generally used) are premium prefix. Note that usually in Russia one needs to dial 8 before the area code, so premium numbers are usually written as 8 (803/809) xxx xxxx.

The 0900 prefix is used in Slovakia for premium rate numbers.

The 090 prefix is used for premium rate numbers in Slovenia.

In Spain, the charged at premium numbers begins with 80 or 90 (except the 800, 900 and 909, which are free, the 901 which is shared cost, the 902 which is like a provincial call and the 908 which is like a metropolitan call). The most popular prefixes are 803 (porn hot lines) and 806 (services), also are used 807 and 905. Previously all the numbers starting with 90x (except 900, 901 and 902) were charged at premium rates but the 906 had been moved to 803, 806 and 807 and the 908 and 909 prefixes were created for Internet dialup services. All those numbers have 9 digits. In Spain both pay per minute and pay per call billing options are available across the 8 and 9 series range of numbers. Also there are other range for information services (weather, white pages, etc ), there are all the numbers starting with 118, they can have 5 or 6 digits with a variable cost per number. 11818 is free from Telefónica's telephone cabins. Previously 11818 was 1003.

Numbers starting with 0900, 0939 and 0944 are premium rate numbers. Also numbers beginning on 118 are premium rate numbers for companies that provide phonebook lookup services.

Numbers starting with 0703 and 0900 are premium rate numbers.

In New Zealand, premium rate telephone numbers begin with 0900. The service is used by phone sex companies, phone support services and for donations to charitable organizations.

Telephone numbers of the form 0600 xxx xxxx and 0609 xxx xxxx are premium rate numbers. The 0609 series is for entertainment (fixed rate), while 0600 is for services (the rate depends on the particular number).

In Brazil, there is only one premium prefix: 0500, and this number is used by organizations receiving donations (it's a premium rate per call and not per minute). In the 1990s, numbers starting with 900 were used for that purpose and later numbers starting with 0900 was available, but now is no longer allowed. As there are no longer premium numbers, TV shows now use mobile numbers to receive calls and generate revenue to their program. For the same premium rate purpose, it is used of numbers destined to mobile phones with unusual code of selection of carriers for the purpose of charging a premium rate per minute. Ex: 0 91 41 98401–0101.

Computer criminals have historically used premium rate numbers to defraud unsuspecting Internet users. One scheme involved inducing computer users who used now uncommon dial up Internet access to download a program known as a dialer that surreptitiously dialed a premium rate number, accumulating charges on the user's phone bill without their knowledge. Another now uncommon premium rate scam involved television programming that induced young children to dial the number, banking on the notion that they will be unaware of the charges that will be incurred. One variant, targeted at children too young to dial a number, enticed children to hold a landline telephone up to the television set while the DTMF tones of the number were played. This type of scam was especially popular in the late 1980s to early 1990s in the United States before tougher regulations on the 900 number business forced many of these businesses to close.