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WhoKilledBambi?

May be some changes in the wind from BT Retail - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3909-ofcom-consults-on-changes-to-rules-for-telephone-market.html ".....scope for deals whereby you get free calls if you take the broadband and TV package along with line rental."
"BT Retail may.....set alarm bells ringing at providers who have......competed on just value for money"

Ofcom To Allow BT Bundles

maddypc

I have been offered a deal by something.org via Sky.

They are offering unlimited 8GB Broadband with Wireless modem, plus any time telephone calls to anywhere in the UK, plus free calls to 30 countries all for £19.99 per month.

Anyone used them? Comments please?

Heinz

And the additional cost of line rental is .......?

Sid_Harper

Just had a letter from TalkTalk for free weekend/evening for a year (12 month contract, no monthly fees) AND... FREE LOCAL CALLS DURING THE DAY from 1 May.

I might just take them up - Primus has got a fault whereby all numbers show as engaged; have had this all weekend and still the case today; have to use 1280 to dial via BT or 1457 to dial via them but unable to use 1899 (assuming BT access code works because my line rental is with them).

Heinz

If 1899 doesn't work (assuming you have an account with them) that suggests a BT fault, not a Primus one.

chalkysoil

another one not working Also 18185 and 18866)

Sid_Harper

That's what I'd have expected too - though Primus tell me it's at their end (?); I still use 1899 during the day with Primus as you only pay the connection charge.

carrie_anne_4

Hi, got an orchid dialler and use bt for line rental, with 18185 and 1899 for appropriate calls, but I'm re-evaluating what we've got. I've looked and I can't find recent references to Plusnet for phone line rental. Does anyone know if they allow use of the override providers since being taken over by BT? Apologies if I'm asking in the wrong place.

jhp

carrie_anne wrote: »

Hi, got an orchid dialler and use bt for line rental, with 18185 and 1899 for appropriate calls, but I'm re-evaluating what we've got. I've looked and I can't find recent references to Plusnet for phone line rental. Does anyone know if they allow use of the override providers since being taken over by BT? Apologies if I'm asking in the wrong place.

Yes according to this thread.

http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=74709.0

carrie_anne_4

Thank you for that jhp. Very helpful.