Chris Hills wrote:
> Thomas Kenyon wrote:
>> If magrathea et al make money from terminations through them to 0800
>> numbers, then this looks to me like a bit of a scam.
>>
>> I would personally rather be able to set my own records for the numbers,
>> for the obvious reason that anybody connecting to the number using e164
>> would be doing so without me paying to receive the call.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this situation?
>
> I would be surprised if Magrathea are making any money off of it.

By my reading of this, they are offering to connect 0800 calls via VoIP
if there is no specific entry for the full number. If so, they are
perhaps offering a useful service. They will receive a tiny amount of
money from the network they pass the call onto, possibly or possibly not
enough to really support the service.