The Localphone Blog

Many of our customers dial our local access numbers from their mobiles, and have these calls included in their phone contracts’ free minutes. Unfortunately in the UK these deals rarely include calls to the toll free numbers like those starting with 0800, 0500, and 0808.

Because Localphone doesn’t charge for calls to UK toll free numbers just add them as a contact and use the local access number to call for free. If it’s a number you don’t dial very often the call is still free using the Localphone Calling Card.

As you may already be aware, you can control some aspects of your Localphone account using our SMS service.

If you are already using the service please note that from today our new access number is +441555715557. Using the old number will return a message reminding you about the update.

In response to customer requests we have increased the number of contacts you can add to the Localphone dashboard to 50.

If your location is set to the UK you will be assigned a Direct Dial access number for each of these. Elsewhere the number will vary from location to location depending on availability.

If you add more contacts than we have access numbers available you will be shown a two-digit speed dial number you can use with the Localphone Calling Card. If you need to call more than 50 people you can still call any number you like for the same great rates by using our Calling Card service.

Most customers won’t be affected by this change, but for our power-users this should make the service even more convenient. If you have any ideas or comments about how Localphone could help you then please don’t hesitate to let us know.