land line providers

minnie125

happy new year
Looking to change my provider I am currently with telewest which i pay £10.50 p/m line rental, £6.00 free evening&weekend p/m package I haved checked martins tips but have discovered you have to have a BT landline to make savings.I also have 2meg broadband provided at £17.99 p/m.

Edinburghlass_2

Probably best looking at this thread which links you to a number of threads where users have got NTL to reduce the price of their package and then phone Telewest with some quotes to hand that show you could get cheaper elsewhere and see if they are prepared to reduce the charges to you.

dc

And now NTL own Telewest, you may be in luck.

Also analyse your phone bill to see what kind of calls you make and when, note the patterns and see if your £6.00 is well spent, you might find you are better off knocking it on the head and finding a cheaper option of making calls.

You could go the whole hog and ditch your landline all together, saving £16.50 / month and make Voip calls over your broadband. see the threads on Voip.

hths dc

utilitybroker

dc wrote:

And now NTL own Telewest,

But they dont yet.

dc

Oh yes they do, it has been given approval by OTT sorry I meant OFT, or did I? and is a done deal. (yesterday)



http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=1199

dc :snow_grin

utilitybroker

Thanks must have missed it.Still recovering from Hols.

dc

WOW all the bonus gone.:snow_grin

They NTL would have been bigger than Sky if Barclay Knapp had listened to my "15 mins fame" advice in 1998 and bought Pace at 27p a share. :rolleyes:

But being from Ohio he didn't know who Pace was, even though he was giving a lecture on digital tv. Ahhh memories. :wall:

minnie125

Thanks guys for taking the time out to reply.The problem i have NTL are not in my area so i am restriced to whom i can use, my BBwas reduced from £25 p/m to £17.99 by telling them i was shopping around.DC mentioned viop will do some research into this.
cheers

pricefighter

minnie125 wrote:

Thanks guys for taking the time out to reply.The problem i have NTL are not in my area so i am restriced to whom i can use, my BBwas reduced from £25 p/m to £17.99 by telling them i was shopping around.DC mentioned viop will do some research into this.
cheers

If you make less then say 120 E&W calls a month you might be better off using the https://www.thephone.coop Home User Tariff calls are just 4.7p a call e&w and they will provide you with a freephone access number to use it from NTL.The other good thing about it is you dont pay any fee,so you dont get charged while your away,and you get cheaper peak rate calls,without a 6p conection charge.

Or the First Telecom Cable Saver product is another service that might suit you better.See http://www.firsttele.com/residential/residential-paymonthly-callprices-saverCabLN.html Again its delivered by a freephone access number.