BT adding 0870/0845 numbers to its call packages - discussion

billsavings

MSE_Martin wrote: »

we await to see if others will respond (talktalk's price promise springs to mind).

Do TT still offer a price promise?

mary

Clarified with BT over the weekend re 1280 and 0870.
We have BT landline and calls via Tiscali. However by default we are automatically on Unlimited Weekend Calls for BT which comes along with the line rental. Therefore, he confirmed that if we used 1280 and need to ring 0870/0845 it will be free for us at the weekend as of 16 Jan. I was weighing up whether it was worth swapping back, as calls with Tiscali are £4 p.m. and with BT would be £4.85 p.m. I trawled back through the bills and have discovered on average we spend about 80p p.m. on 0845/0870 calls (that is for those I have been unable to find listed on the saynoto0870 website. It's a fine line. I do know it does take time looking for the alternative numbers and it would be a lot quicker just to plain dial them, so BT is tempting me back.

bbb_uk

mary wrote: »

Clarified with BT over the weekend re 1280 and 0870.
We have BT landline and calls via Tiscali. However by default we are automatically on Unlimited Weekend Calls for BT which comes along with the line rental. Therefore, he confirmed that if we used 1280 and need to ring 0870/0845 it will be free for us at the weekend as of 16 Jan.

You should be warned that it may not be free if Tiscali have, like Sky, signed up to WCLI (wholesale Calls Line Independent) which effectively allows the telephone provider to override their customers (ie you) trying to use 1280 and therefore be billed by BT. Telephone providers can effectively charge you for carrying a call via BT's 1280 service. You may still be able to make the call but it may be charged not by BT but by your CPS provider.

Like I said Sky have taken advantage of this but not sure about other providers yet.

More info on SayNo here which leads you to BT's own page here.

Even if Tiscali dont do this now they probably are going to in the future because it's in their interests to stop you making calls via BT and paying BT's rates which with regards to 0845/0870 are cheaper than what they (Tiscali) charge.

mary

Last time I made 1280 calls was at the beginning of August, so probably should try it out again, to see if it lands up with BT or Tiscali.

billsavings

mary wrote: »

I was weighing up whether it was worth swapping back, as calls with Tiscali are £4 p.m. and with BT would be £4.85 p.m.

Are you sure its only £4? Tiscali anytime call package equilavent of BTs £4.85 one is normally about £4.99.

info_addict

You have got my ear, I am aware of it for Sky customers, but the majority of CPS users can access it still. This is something that was raised at a meeting I had with Ofcom and it was meant to be clarifying the situation and why - but we're still awaiting...

Martin

Can you add AOL Talk to the list please, 1280 overide does not work.

0013

i knwo that BT say that they will exclude these but do you think these guys can actually find all the various 0870 provides and exclude them from their calling plans??

Butterfly_Brain

Why are hospitals allowed to use 0870 numbers especially when it takes so long to get through to an operator? Don't they make enough out of extortionate car parking rates?

jhp

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Why are hospitals allowed to use 0870 numbers especially when it takes so long to get through to an operator? Don't they make enough out of extortionate car parking rates?

Can you name an Hospital using 0870.;)

0013

.. ever since the BT made 0870 numbers free (within their calling plans), has any one actually tried to use a dial around 0870 access number and see if they are free or being billed in their normal way?

just want to knwo as i am int he middle of deciding if i should swtch back to BT as my main landline service provider...

Thanks