About Alpha Talk Ltd

Alphatalk Ltd is a technologically innovative business specialising in delivering high quality services through its own network infrastructure. Our customers include councils, multi-national corporations, telecoms companies and thousands of other businesses both in the UK and abroad.

Alphatalk Ltd first started trading in October 1996 as Alphadial Communications with only one product. The company was one of the biggest suppliers of 07000 Personal name numbers in the country. Since then it has enjoyed tremendous growth and has expanded its product portfolio in order to meet the needs of a more diverse business community.

Alphatalk Limited is one of the fastest growing communications businesses in the UK.

As well as developing partnerships with major Tier1 carriers the company has also purchased its own switching facilities and has therefore become a carrier in its own right.

Our services include:

• Non-geographic Numbers
• Area Numbers
• Bespoke Answering Services (IVR)
• A Range of Virtual Services 

Our philosophy is to provide the best in customer service delivered through resilient and proven products. We pride ourselves on listening to our customers, understanding their requirements, and designing our products and services around their needs.

Why Alphatalk Ltd?

Many reasons! Aside from the fact that we are great people to work with we could mention that we offer excellent customer service, leading edge technology, great technical support and much more.

But from a practical perspective, given that you are probably in this site to buy numbers, here are some other reasons:

1. Confidence - we own and operate our own number ranges and infrastructure

This means when you buy numbers from Alphatalk Ltd, it is entirely within our control for the lifetime of the number. Unlike many other companies selling numbers on the web we are not reselling other peoples numbers.

Many companies who purport to offer FREE numbers do so on the basis that their number provider will ALLOW them to do so but they do not have ANY future guarantees.

That means that if you choose a number from one of those companies, you could order a number, print your marketing material, company brochures, letterheads etc using that number and then find that the company who sold you the number can not support it any longer without losing money.

What are your choices then? Do you think you could talk to the telecoms company who owns the number and ask them to continue service? No. These companies are generally large corporate businesses whose pricing plans do not entertain customers who want FREE numbers. You are then faced with the probability of either, changing the number and losing the money on the marketing material, or paying a fee for a number you thought was free. Either way you pay.

Finally, what happens when something goes wrong? As we own and manage our own network, we can make the changes necessary to ensure your service continues smoothly and efficiently.

2. Support - we are a real company with real people to talk to

Unlike many other companies offering numbers on the web, we have a customer service department there to answer your questions during normal working hours and a technical support function operating out of hours.

Many companies seem to offer support only through email which aside from being a remote way of communicating with people as a ‘conversation’, it also pre-supposes that you have access to the Internet when you need assistance. For example, occasionally our clients contact us because they need an urgent number re-mapping and are not in a position to go online and complete the change themselves. In addition quite often people forget the pin codes needed to be able to dial into our service and change the mapping but still need it done as quickly as possible.

If you had to email us to make the change which may take days, what would be the impact to your business?

3. Security – communications is the life blood of every business

At any one time if you are trawling the web to find the best deal on numbers, you are likely to find a number of companies selling numbers they do not own as previously discussed. What you may not know is that these businesses tend to come and go fairly frequently.

Before ordering a new number, ask yourself this question:

“If I order a number for my company, and a few months later that number is taken away from me, what would be the impact to my business?”

There are hundreds of horror stories about just that thing happening, and the cost cannot be measured just against the price of printing stationary etc, but in the loss of business and image that usually goes with it. Plus the time taken to deal with the problem.

So before you choose your next number supplier, why not complete a credit check or at least review the background of the business before you make your decision?

Pricing Philosophy

It is simple economics that in order to build a strong reliable business with up to date services and good customer care, you need to be able to deliver sufficient margin to pay for it.

With that in mind we constantly monitor the market rates of our competitors and adjust our promotions to compete effectively without ever compromising our business or standards of service.

However, we appreciate that everyone wants to know they are getting good value for their purchases, so we also tend to add value into our packages wherever possible. So, on a like for like basis you will find we add more features, functions and service for less money than virtually anyone else. And we structure it so even the smallest businesses can get the same kind of value for money and service levels as our largest customers.

For more information please feel free to call us on 0800 007 6000 or email us on info@alphatalk.com