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The service charge may be charged per call, per minute, or a combination of the two. Originally, the per-call part could range from 5p to £16, and applies as soon as the call is answered, and the per-minute part could range from 1p to £8, and may apply either from the start of the call or after the first full minute.
For example, on one network the 2019 cost of calling from the United States to the Dominican Republic is 6¢ ($0.06) per minute, while a connection to Cuba, a shorter distance, is 92¢ per minute. To some extent this reflects different costs and efficiencies in different countries, but it is used by some countries as a revenue source.
Pay-per-call is the inverse of a premium telephone number, in that the advertiser who receives the call, not the caller, is charged for the service. Since it is cost per lead advertising, the rates are higher than for toll-free telephone number service. In general, the advertiser is only billed for calls that last at least one minute.
These numbers are called grüne Nummer (German) / numéro vert (French) / numero verde (Italian), all meaning "green number". In Taiwan, the toll-free prefix is 0800-xxx-xxx or 0809-xxx-xxx, but not all Taiwanese mobile numbers can call toll free numbers. A toll-free subscriber can decide to restrict a number due to high per-minute mobile rates.
087x xxx xxxx - Service Charge of up to 13p per call and/or up to 13p per minute; 09xx xxx xxxx - Service Charge of up to £6.00 per call and/or up to £3.60 per minute [16] 118 xxx - Service Charge of up to £3.65 per call and/or up to £2.50 per minute, with an overall cap of £3.65 per 90 seconds of a call. [17]
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