@NAT - Telephone Enquiries can be heavy on the pocket

118 rip-off scandal: Cost of calling directory enquiries rockets to £6 for a 45-second call - FIFTEEN times higher than the 40p it cost when the new system launched in 2003

• Price hike to directory enquires numbers means calls can cost up to £6
• Study of 118 services found calls cost 15 times as much as they did in 2003
• If caller chooses to be put through could be charged £20 for 5-minute call
• Charities have warned elderly people are most likely to be hit by charges 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3235016/Cost-calling-directory-enquiries-rockets-6-45sec-call.html#ixzz3loDOBP1R
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