"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Lee" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>> 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].
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> 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.
>

I have no idea - I do not really follow telecoms stuff. When did
local/national stop being different? My mother is on a regular BT landline -
do they not charge differentially?