NTL Telephony Price Increases.

pricefighter

Yes its in their tariffs cos it still exists and folk are still on it.But its know longer appears to be available to new users,and i wonder if they would let customers on other tariffs move to it.Their cheapest tariff now appears to be £12.50p.

Stuart_W

If you find the 6p plan is not available, try signing up to the PhoneCoop's Home User tariff - where you get off peak calls for 4.7p for up to 60 mins - and this IS available on a cable line. Tariff details:

http://www.phone.coop/residential/telephone/homeuser.html

Ultra moneysavers: If you have a Co-Op Group Dividend Card, sign up via the Co-Op Dividend site for an additional 3% cashback off your monthly bill
http://www.co-op-dividend.co.uk/index.cfm?itemid=1519
(The Co-Operative group should not be confused with local cooperative societies who may offer separate dividend schemes)

mobilegossip

Do the phone coop supply you with a free auto dialler like other suppliers do?

Stuart_W

This is what their FAQs states:

Do you offer a service to cable users as well as BT ones?
Yes we do. The access code is an 11 digit 0800 number and the calls cost the same as over non-cable lines. Cable customers cannot use the automated access or cost centre billing services but we recommend that you programme the prefix into a memory button on your handset.

So unlike onetel and FirstTelecom no dialler box is available, but as they say the freephone number can be programmed into a memory button or used with an Orchid Dialler.

pricefighter

If you only make calls locally at evenings & weekends (In some parts of Uk local call areas are huge ) you might be better off using NTL Talk Unlimited Local Call Service £12.50p a month.Combined with 1899 for peak calls.

Stuart_W

I seem to remember in the past, for "local" NTL had a different definition to BT - and "free local calls to other cable customers" in my case only meant the same STD code, whereas BT's meaning for local at the time covered a total of 6 area codes for my location.
I know this is a different tariff now, have NTL redefined "local" ??

pricefighter

Terms are here http://www.home.ntl.com/page/additionalinformation#telephone

In the area i live Cable Customers can ring all the surrounding local exchanges without exception, a list of which is published in your Local BT phone book.

The Tariff spec says here ANY local landline.
http://www.home.ntl.com/invt/talkunlimitedlocal

Welshdan

I have just been looking over some bills.

On my most recent bill I am paying just £10.50 line rental. and my total bill is around £24 per month.

On my previous two bills (before I asked to just pay line rental) I was signed up to Talk unlimited + MCP (I think it was talk unlimited I was supposed to be getting free)

Talk unlimited cost me £8.00 on top of line rental at £10.50 so £18.50 and my bills still equal around £24.

I am calling from the 01785 prefix to the 01978 prefix, I have checked the phone book and I am not calling locally.

I'm a bit confused by the earlier threads so can I just clarify a few things.

Should I call ntl customer services and ask for the 6p call plan? and this should be free?

And it sounds like I should sign up to the phoneco-op too so I am going to look into that a bit further.

chinagirl

I pay £1.75 a month for a mobile call bar. This is money well spent, as my teenage son has been very chat happy in the past and used to run up huge bills. I would definately recommend this if its not just you using your phone. ntl supply you with a code to over-ride the bar in an emergency as well.

knuckledragger

I use only 1899 with NTL. Due to a nice bit of haggling, I don't pay line rental to NTL My massive monthly spend on 1899 was £6ish. When they charged only the connection fee of 3p, it was obviously much cheaper. But I'll settle for 0.5p/minute!