Now freephone will mean free: 0800 numbers will be free to call from mobiles, says Ofcom New rules will simplify calls to 08, 09 and 118 numbers Calls to premium 09 numbers will be capped The end to the warning on adverts that 'calls may vary from other landlines and calls from mobiles may cost considerably more' Mobile phone users who dial an 0800 number will no longer have to pay for the call, thanks to an overhaul of call charges announced by the telecoms watchdog today. Until now, calls to 0800, 0808 or 116 numbers have been free to call from landlines but have incurred a cost of up to 40p a minute for mobile users. This is set to change from June 2015, as part of a package of reforms to make call charges clearer, Ofcom said. Reassurance: Phone users will know before they make calls how much they are going to cost them per minute Confusion around 0845 and other non-geographic numbers will also be addressed. Calls to 0845 numbers can cost up to 11p a minute from landlines and 41p a minute from mobiles. But unless using a BT line, callers are not told how much these numbers cost, resulting in some nasty surprises on phone bills at the end of the month. Ofcom's new rules will mean that call charges to numbers starting with 08, 09 or 118 will be broken down into the access charge, to be made clear by phone companies, and the service charge that must be specified by the organisation being contacted. The new rules will not change the cost of these calls though. It will mean the end of warnings on adverts that "calls may vary from other landlines and calls from mobiles may cost considerably more." Premium rate call charges to 09 numbers will also be capped to protect consumers from rogue operators imposing sky-high charges. Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, said: "These changes will be the biggest for UK telephone customers in more than a decade. We expect them to restore people's confidence in using phone services, and to increase competition. The rules will not come into effect until June 26 2015 to allow companies and service providers to make the changes. 0800, 0808, 116 - Calls to these numbers will be free, both from landlines and mobile phones 09 - Calls to numbers will this prefix will be capped to protect callers from sky-high charges 084, 087 - Calls to numbers with these prefixes will be split into an access charge - from the phone operator - and service charge - from the company phoned. These should be clearly advertised A nationwide communications campaign will launch next year to explain the call charge changes. The announcement come as a report from Ofcom revealed Britons benefit from cheaper broadband, mobile and landline deals than our counterparts in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the US. British consumers pay just over a third of the price for mobile phone deals that those in the US pay. For example, a typical handset with 200 minutes, 50 texts and 200MG of data costs on average £14 a month in the UK - compared with £57 in the US. Good deals: Communications services are cheaper in the UK than in Italy, France, Germany, Spain or the US, according to Ofcom The Ofcom report also looked at the amount we spend on communications relative to total household spending. The UK emerged as having the most affordable communications - with the best deals representing just 2.3 per cent of total living costs. The best deals in France, Italy and the US represented 2.5 per cent of consumers" outgoings in these countries. The least affordable was Germany, where the best deals cost consumers 3.4 per cent of their outgoings - nearly 50 per cent more than UK consumers. However not all services are cheapest in the UK. Premium television subscriptions were found to be more expensive in the UK (£66) than in other countries surveyed, and twice as costly as in Germany (£27), where the cheapest deal was offered. However, the UK package included twice as many channels, making it difficult to compare TV on a like-for-like basis.