Talk:Premium-rate telephone number/Archives/2014

Re: Merger Proposal
The Pay-Per-Call article should Not be merged with this one, as recently suggested, for the following reason:

Pay-Per-Call is a Performance-Based Advertising model akin to Pay-Per-Click advertising. Pay-Per-Call is a relatively-new concept and a fast-growing sector that is clearly distinct from - and should not be confused with - Premium rate telephone services / 900 telephone numbers. The-Pay-Per-Call model charges Advertisers a premium to receive calls from prospective customers - The Premium rate model charges Callers a premium to call certain numbers. The calls in both models are ‘routed’ in a similar way, which is why these separate concepts can be mistaken for one another.

The current version of the Pay-Per-Call article includes additional inaccuracies (such as the suggestion that Google helped introduce Pay-Per-Call in 2005). I will try to build up and edit this article in the near future, to correct factual inaccuracies, and to include related citations — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.116.159.97 (talk) 16:46, 22 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Pay-per-call is a euphemism used by some telephone companies to refer to premium-rate telephone numbers. Unless some other meaning becomes common enough to justify a disambiguation page, it should merely redirect here. K7L (talk) 17:01, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Undid IP edit
I reverted an IP edit that added a link to telserv nl, which looks to be a seller of premium rate numbers. On the face of it, this looks like advertisement and does not add any value to the article.

Aethalides (talk) 15:23, 28 January 2014 (UTC)


 * The same IP added the same spam link to toll-free telephone number and direct inward dial. I've reverted both as spam and left a talk page warning. K7L (talk) 17:01, 28 January 2014 (UTC)