Premium Rate Service is an extremely popular way of generating an income from incoming telephone calls. It is an industry worth over £2 billion a year in the UK alone. If your business needs to bill customers for support one of the most popular ways is charge via actual usage by the minute. Premium rate number is the obvious way to do this. It is suitable for a variety of businesses including ISP's, Software & Hardware Manufacturers and Consultancy Services. The main advantage to your business means no need to generate small invoices to hundreds of clients for support and your customers gain by only paying for the support they actually need. Earning revenue from your phone calls is the biggest advantage, you don’t need to bill your customer, the money is automatically paid into your bank account. Premium rate numbers enable you to make additional revenue from phone calls made to your organisation or service. Caller is redirected to any UK telephone number, or alternatively to a recorded service or interactive service connected to some equipment belonging to you but situated in your premium rate service provider's network facility. Whether your customer is a charity, computer software manufacturer or a TV quiz show, premium rate services are a great source of revenue.

Premium rate telephone network can handle a large number of simultaneous calls, meaning your callers are less likely to get an engaged tone. Premium rate calls are diverted off the ordinary telephone network so they cannot disrupt emergency service calls even when there are high numbers of calls being made. Premium rate number calls cost the same to all callers regardless of where they have dialled from. You can avoid any regional discrimination that would be inherent in using, say, a London telephone number. Callers stand an equal chance of their call getting through regardless from where they have dialled. This is not true for all types of telephone numbers but it is for premium rate numbers.

Premium rate numbers present a valuable opportunity for your business. If you provide information or a service that your customers are happy to pay for, a premium rate number can be a simple way to generate additional revenue - every time you receive a call. Some examples of how you can use premium rate services are short term sales promotions, helpline support, traffic/weather updates, financial news, horoscopes, competitions, sports news and charity donations.