Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding premium telephone numbers (details supplied) [1562/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) manages and administers the National Numbering Scheme which lists all numbers and codes that are available on public telecommunications networks.

There is no obligation on companies providing services to the public to provide or display any particular type of telephonenumber. The access codes available to services providers to provide public access include

- the geographic numbering scheme where charges are incurred by the caller at a local or national rate;

- 1850 numbers which share the costs between the caller and the service provider at a fixed rate; and

- 1890 numbers which share the costs between the caller and the service provider having regard to the duration of the call when called from a fixed line number.

Mobile service providers may charge higher rates when customers access these numbers using mobile devices and those charges may vary between providers.