Number Ranges

ITR are Ofcom registered telephone number providers.

About UK phone number ranges:

When you make a phone call, the cost of the call is determined by the type of phone number you call. It can range from nothing at all on freephone 0800 numbers through to £1.50 per minute on certain premium rate numbers starting 090. Exactly how much each call costs depends on who bills you, which could be BT, a mobile company or another provider such as Virgin or even Skype.
It is bordering on impossible to get any one of these companies to give a complete listing of the prices for every number range, so the descriptions in this web page are general guides based on certain BT prices. Your pricing may vary.

What phone numbers do we have?

We provide a vast array of non-geographic telephone numbers (NGNs) geographic (local) phone numbers for towns and cities all over the UK, and even the new 03 numbers that are used by government departments and charities.
If you’re looking further afield, we can supply international freephone (so people in selected other countries can call you for free), Irish numbers (including local numbers for Dublin) and can help you set up services to receive calls from other destinations if that’s what you need.

What are the benefits of choosing the right number ranges?

The flip side of paying for phone calls is that the money the caller spends is divided up by those who are involved in handling and answering the call. In the case of the freephone 0800 number mentioned above, the owner of the number has to pay the cost involved for BT and then us to get the call to them. In the case of the one that costs the caller £1.50 a minute, the situation is reversed and the owner of the number will receive most of that money.

Clearly there is an important business decision to make: Do you want your callers to be able to call you cheaply (or even for free), or do you want the phone calls to cover the costs they incur or be a source of income?.

We can also offer geographic number ranges, which are phone numbers in particular local area codes like 0161 XXX XXXX as a Manchester number or 0121 XXX XXXX as a Birmingham one. If you want your company to have a local touch – even if you’re not in that area – having phone numbers like these might be useful to you.

We can offer you advice to allow your company to choose its numbering policy. There’s far more to say on the topic than just this web page, and the type of number your customers use to contact you may well be what determines their first impressions.

What can I do with the number?

The phone number is the very start of the process. Once you’ve got a phone number, or two, three or several hundred, you need to choose what it does. For this, see our range of call routing and IVR services. You can install as many numbers as is required onto a single service, which is especially useful for measuring the response of different marketing methods.