A free educational resource providing informative facts on the history of telecoms and 0800 numbers

Wiki is actually a Hawaiian word for "quick" or "fast", which is the service you should expect when ordering an 0800 number. It is also what we aim to be if you have a question for us about anything, whether it is 0800 numbers, fax-to-email services or other freephone numbers. Wiki is also an acronym for "What I Know Is" and we like to think what we know is telecoms and the 0800 number marketplace.

0800 numbers are freephone numbers if you are calling them from a UK landline. The owner of the number pays to receive the call. It is a non-geographic number, giving companies a national image and increasing the number of calls they receive as the customer doesn't pay to call them from a landline.

This site includes some information about the history of 0800 numbers and telecommunications in general in the UK, as well as some fascinating facts, which we hope you will find interesting. If nothing else, it will be useful for pub quizzes! If you have any more information that you would like to add, please use our Contact Us page.

Other members of the Wiki family of telecoms websites include

0844 Number Wiki
0845 Number Wiki
Local Number Wiki

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