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murphydavid

Just an irrelavant thought.
You know the real trouble with all this is the complexity. ie If I had read the relevant article from Martin when he wrote it I would have saved £100 last year, but to have found the relevant article I would have probably read many others too. All taking time. Now I have spent so much time working through this phone stuff which may or may not cost me £44 or save me £100 a year that, were I still working, I could definitely have earned more with that time. So only retired people like me can benifit and I'm not too sure about that as I still rate my time as having a high value. They are all at it Phone, Water, Savings - More tricks and variations in rules than I could have imagined a few years ago.

Heinz

murphydavid wrote:

Can you run that by me again - What exactly would you dial to get around the barring? (I presume you mean someone who has been barred by Talk Talk)

If your line rental provider bars access to the prefix-dial calls providers (1899, 18185 etc.), it is still possible to make use of them by using the 0808 gateway numbers they provide for cable customers.

However, you pay more to use those because they have to fund the provision of the freephone number.

e.g. 18185 charge those able to use the 18185 prefix 4p connection and 0p/minute to call a UK 01 or 02 number but they charge those who have to use the 08081703703 gateway access route 4p connection and 1p/minute to call the same number.

creddish

murphydavid wrote:

Just an irrelavant thought.
You know the real trouble with all this is the complexity. ie If I had read the relevant article from Martin when he wrote it I would have saved £100 last year, but to have found the relevant article I would have probably read many others too. All taking time. Now I have spent so much time working through this phone stuff which may or may not cost me £44 or save me £100 a year that, were I still working, I could definitely have earned more with that time. So only retired people like me can benifit and I'm not too sure about that as I still rate my time as having a high value. They are all at it Phone, Water, Savings - More tricks and variations in rules than I could have imagined a few years ago.

It's clever marketing. If they all kept to the same simple pricing system then it would be obvious which supplier was the best value. Then the best value company would get more of the business and eventually when the normal customer inertia had been overcome all the other companies would go out of business. Making it difficult to make comparisons plus different customers having different requirements (e.g. different call patterns for telecomms customers) discourages customers moving suppliers.

Colin

s71hj

Did I read somewhere that Tiscali are offering free uk calls and broadband for £19.99 a month?

Heinz

s71hj wrote:

Did I read somewhere that Tiscali are offering free uk calls and broadband for £19.99 a month?

Probably here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=291278

waspinagermanhelmet

http://www.madasafish.com/talk/

are offerin the following (grabbed from the page referenced above)

Call plans with line rental included from just £9.99 a month

Talk Free
Ideal if you make calls only on evenings and weekends.

Includes 500 minutes a month of free evening and weekend calls to UK landlines (numbers starting in 01 and 02).

Inclusive calls up to an hour to UK landlines are completely free. Redial before 60 minutes to avoid call charges.

Cheap international calls and competitive rates to call mobile phones.

5% off calls made to 5 numbers of your choice including international and mobile phone numbers with Favourite Five.

Surely this is cheaper than having BT Together Option 2 with free evening and weekend calls paying only line rental at £11 a month (which increases to £14.95 a month after 12 months)

Heinz

waspinagermanhelmet wrote:

Surely this is cheaper than having BT Together Option 2 with free evening and weekend calls paying only line rental at £11 a month (which increases to £14.95 a month after 12 months)

It's also £1.01 cheaper than having BT Together Option 1 (£11/month by DD).

OTOH, 500 minutes of E&W calls is not much and, as Primus Saver Option 2 CPS gives unlimited E&W UK 01/02 calls of up to 90 minutes, redial to avoid charges, for no monthly fee, I don't think I'll change.

Additionally, only BT must allow access to the likes of 18185 etc. for weekday daytime calls at 0p/minute.

hurrah

waspinagermanhelmet wrote:

http://www.madasafish.com/talk/

are offerin the following (grabbed from the page referenced above)

Call plans with line rental included from just £9.99 a month

Talk Free
Ideal if you make calls only on evenings and weekends.

Includes 500 minutes a month of free evening and weekend calls to UK landlines (numbers starting in 01 and 02).

Inclusive calls up to an hour to UK landlines are completely free. Redial before 60 minutes to avoid call charges.

Cheap international calls and competitive rates to call mobile phones.

5% off calls made to 5 numbers of your choice including international and mobile phone numbers with Favourite Five.

Surely this is cheaper than having BT Together Option 2 with free evening and weekend calls paying only line rental at £11 a month (which increases to £14.95 a month after 12 months)

This product was discussed here at great length !!!!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=242740

amberz

I cannot yet have ntl or talk talk(not in my area) someone told me there is a web site that enables you to input everything you have and they compare for you?. I have sky tv, I'm with BT Broadband and package 3. As I have teenagers at home I have mostly mobile numbers called and OFTEN(grrrrrr) I very rarely use the phone so it is usually at night the ABUSE begins lol.When I do a search there is just so many things to consider it gets hectic trying to work the best solution out. Is there such a site anyone?

page

we have a bt phone with broadband & sky tv are there any sites that you can compare all three? most sites seem to be for phone/broadband only. thanks in advance.