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

I don't think so, Telewest certainly don't.

Ivor