Providers of Free Call Numbers (1800 etc) in UK & USA
 

Does anyone have any recommendations for free call number providers in the UK and US ?

In Australia we have 1300 numbers which cost the caller a local call from anywhere in the country, we use them for a number of businesses. I'm after something similar in the UK and USA or even a freecall option.

not sure exactly what you want..

a 1-800 # for US customers to call that forwards to your UK # ?

i have used voipo.com but not sure they forward to UK

See my sig they are great its free fr 6 mos they record a greeting from your script and u can even set up departments etc like press 1 for 2 for etc

Not sure about UK but for US
http://www.new.onebox.com/home

they charge for toll free (888,877,866,855,800) numbers in the US. Most places are $10/mo or so while others you buy the number but need to "host" it somewhere.

the provider will charge you $.02 to $x.xx per minute for incoming calls or give you a plan with xxx minute then $x.xx after. forwarding the number form a US toll free to UK can get hellishly expensive, upwards of $3.00 per minute.

if you are looking to do US toll free to UK, I would do US toll free to local number, such as a plan with vonage, then forward that to a UK land line where you don't have to pay for international calls. If its going to a UK phone, then forward the UK land line to a cell. Confusing, but will cost you very little to do. I had to do that for a company in New Zealand a few months ago

Free in the UK are 0800, 0808, and 0500. Not free from most mobiles though and people often hunt for an ordinary alternative standard landline number to call.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

To clarify I am looking for toll free numbers in each of the USA and the UK.

We already have standard landlines in both countries, we just want to offer toll free to our customers in each respective country.

I wont be diverting between countries, our own internal telecommunications systems handles intercountry connects via our VOIP services.