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Directory Enquiry Costs

The Times, on 19th August 2003, had a report on the new competition among directory enquiry service providers and gave a comparison of the costs.  (The link, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-784151,00.html, now gives a 404 error).  In the letters about this article on Thursday the 21st, Tony Chamier of West Sussex asked if the Times would consider publishing a chart showing costs for various times. I don't think they ever followed this up, but I prepared a table of the costs (based on their data) for 1, 2, 3 and 4 minutes. You can also get a chart of this data from this link.

 

Total cost for:-
Dial # Service Flat rate + Per min 1 min 2 min 3 min 4 min
118500 02-UK 0 69 69 138 207 276
118118 The Number 49 9 58 67 76 85
118119 192.com 25 30 55 85 115 145
118500 BT 25 30 55 85 115 145
118449 Share UK 25 30 55 85 115 145
118180 Telewest 25 30 55 85 115 145
118404 BT Welsh 25 30 55 85 115 145
118000 Orange 29 20 49 69 89 109
118866 118866 Ltd 25 20 45 65 85 105
118247 Yellow Pages 0 40 40 80 120 160
118111 One Tel 35 0 35 35 35 35
118877 Telco 30 5 35 40 45 50
118099 C&W Quickcall 35 0 35 35 35 35
118811 One 30 0 30 30 30 30
118888 Conduit Directory Services 0 20 20 40 60 80

 

You can also download from here an Excel Spreadsheet (Excel 5 / W95 or later) which calculates costs for a greater range of times.
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