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Originally Posted by Pia
What's the 101 number then?
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101 is currently available in the solent area, well that was the first area to be launched,
The problem is, when people call 101 from a payphone, the payphone company still charges 'the payphone access charge' 8.5p per minute to the goverment whilst the call is free to the caller. This is also the case for 0800 numbers.
101 and the other non-emergency numbers are dealt with BT and Cable and Wireless.
Cable and Wireless provide 112,999,100,101 and 155 services to:
Virgin Media Telewest
Virgin Media NTL
Smallworld
Wight Cable
T-Mobile/Virgin/Fresh/TalkTalk
Thus and Verizon?
Cable and Wireless also provide these services for BT and all other service providers that use the service from BT as a back up just incase BT are unable to offer the operator and emergency services.
Note: Reverse charge calls cannot be made through Cable and Wireless and you would need to use a BT line,BT payphone or a payphone that uses a BT line. Alternatively, you can use 0800-REVERSE on 0800-7383773 if its a BT line that you are calling, you cannot use 0800-REVERSE to call non-BT lines at the moment.