Cheapest calls to Australia from UK landline?

sofaman

Hi,

I'm looking for the cheapest tariff when calling Australia via landline from the UK. Also, calling from UK landline to mobile phone.

Is there an easy to use, no contract deal out there?

Many thanks.

Darksaviour69

From what I have read, it depends who is the line provider. If its BT then you can use something like talkntalk (i have not used them), where you use a access number to call at a fixed rate like 1 min.


If its something like virgin media, its more complex (as i have found),

worried_jim

calls from a virgin line can cost 3p + for every call you make, there's a connection cost of 7p.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/phone/phoneinternational.html

Darksaviour69

worried_jim wrote: »

calls from a virgin line can cost 3p + for every call you make, there's a connection cost of 7p.

Only if you add another 1.50 per month on to your bill, + I need it for tomorrow

Heinz

sofaman wrote: »

I'm looking for the cheapest tariff when calling Australia via landline from the UK. Also, calling from UK landline to mobile phone.

http://callchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/intcallchecker/australia-mobile

N.B. Prices shown are from a BT residential landline.

Dunx69

Use BTs international freedom plan, you get inclusive anytime calls to Australia for up to 1 hour then you just re-dial for £5 per month.

There is a fair usuage policy though so dont go mad on it

bravoseven

If you've got a BT landline, then call Australia landlines for free - see the DialAbroad web site at http://www.dialabroad.co.uk/mobile/plus/

This uses an 0870 number to access the service, which are now included for BT landline customers (or if you are with another provider but get your line rental bill from BT) - see http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/0870-say-no for details

redux

bravoseven wrote: »

This uses an 0870 number to access the service, which are now included for BT landline customers (or if you are with another provider but get your line rental bill from BT)

Not necessarily

Some people will have these included by BT only off-peak or only at weekends, unless they buy the all calls inclusive package

For people paying line rental to BT but using another calls provider, they'd be able to use BT in the free off-peak or weekend periods by using a 1280 prefix. If they use their main calls provider, it will depend whether this company has also adopted having free 0870 calls

In any case, the terms and conditions state that callthrough providers are exempted from being counted free by BT, so it would probably be only a matter of time before new ones are charged


For the OP: if you have a broadband connection all the time, you might also look into VoIP, voice-over-internet. Some Australian VoIP providers, which you could choose to use from here, have flat rate calls i.e. few cents connection fee only.

Katykat

http://www.telediscount.co.uk/accessnumbers.php

Calls cost 1p min from landlines. I used it when I had NTL/Virgin & it worked fine. Now I have Skytalk so dont use it anymore.

ellielovesem

I use budgetcom which costs 0.5p perminute. I got the number from this site (thanks Martin!) so you should be able to find it here or with google. I find this is cheaper than having an International plan (I'm currently on BT).

ellielovesem

Sorry, ignore my last message, I didn't read the OP properly! Budgetcom isn't the cheapest option for landline to mobile, I use it for LL to LL.