Phonecarddepot.com Blog Entry:  Friday, Nov. 17, 2006

You may see "UK Premium Service" as a calling destination when buying a prepaid phone card. UK Premium Services are services that you dial-in to at a higher rate (i.e. your landline or mobile will be billed more for that call). A more technical definition can be found at the bottom of this post.

UK Premium Services Include

• Customer Help Lines
  
• Fax Backs
• Competitions
• Sports Tipster
• Live Information
• also data, customer enquiry, information, Tarot, Horoscopes, Psychic lines & many, many more uses

*What's a "Fax Back": Great question, the owner of the premium service actually makes money for every fax that's sent to that number. i.e. -- Fax your contest entry to 090-xxx-xxx --

UK PREMIUM SERVICE: In the U.K., Premium Rate Service (PRS) is a telephone service that provides recorded information or live conversation for callers similar to 1-900 number service in the U.S. Callers are charged a higher rate on their phone bill, which is then split between the service provider and the network operator who leases the PRS number to the provider. PRS is a subcategory of Number Translation Service (NTS), Premium Rate Service (PRS) is a telephone service that provides recorded information or live conversation for callers similar to 1-900 number service in the U.S. Callers are charged a higher rate on their phone bill, which is then split between the service provider and the network operator who leases the PRS number to the provider. PRS is a subcategory of Number Translation Service (NTS), and all PRS numbers begin with 090 with 0909 reserved exclusively for adult content services.


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Tavis McKenzie
Phonecarddepot.com
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