"Lee" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:3jfhfaFpfe60U1@individual.net...

[snip]

> I started with a free voipfone account to which I added some incoming UK
> geographic telephone numbers - one in London and one local to my mother
> in Derbyshire [this allows her to call me in London for the price of a
> local call]. I also added an incoming Spanish number for someone on the
> Costa del Sol to call me local call charges but this was from another
> supplier [gradwell.net].

Is there a difference in cost between a local and a national call these
days..? Certainly (apart from non-geo numbers like 0870) in my personal
experience the cost of calling any UK number is the same. The only
advantage would be not to have to dial the full number but only the local
portion after the area code.

Ivor