Calling 0800 telephone numbers from your mobile phone could soon be free after Ofcom announced plans to ban the charging practice. At present, mobile users pay up to 40p a minute to call 0800 numbers, ...

New measures are in effect which make 0800 and 0808 numbers free to call from mobile phones, just as they are from landlines. The changes are expected to affect 175 million existing phone numbers.

It’s always been somewhat puzzling that we have to pay to dial a freecall number from a mobile phone. Those 0800 numbers are free to call from a landline, so why not from a mobile too? From June 2015, ...