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What's my best home-phone option?
ANDRE1L1N
Posts: 3 Newbie
in Phones & TV
Hi everyone
Just reinforced how useless I am at finding info on the net! Here's the question:
My mobile phone package is great for me (1000 FoC mins + 100 FoC texts for £25 a month) and am moving to a new flat in Brighton where I can use my neighbour's wifi FoC.
I'd like to have a home-phone simply for making 0500, 0800, 0845 etc calls which are expensive on my mobile and not included in my FoC minutes.
But all home phone-phone suppliers seem to charge a minimum £10-ish a month line rental and the cheapest packages are for evening and weekend calls only - whereas
0500, 0800, 0845 etc numbers tend to be businesses which means calling them Mon-Fri (OK, there are some exceptions) during their working hours.
I've heard that these numbers can be called FoC via the net or mobile-phone but aren't they complicated options? And is there a home-phone supplier out there who fits my needs?
Any advice greatly appreciated!
Cheers, Linda.
Just reinforced how useless I am at finding info on the net! Here's the question:
My mobile phone package is great for me (1000 FoC mins + 100 FoC texts for £25 a month) and am moving to a new flat in Brighton where I can use my neighbour's wifi FoC.
I'd like to have a home-phone simply for making 0500, 0800, 0845 etc calls which are expensive on my mobile and not included in my FoC minutes.
But all home phone-phone suppliers seem to charge a minimum £10-ish a month line rental and the cheapest packages are for evening and weekend calls only - whereas
0500, 0800, 0845 etc numbers tend to be businesses which means calling them Mon-Fri (OK, there are some exceptions) during their working hours.
I've heard that these numbers can be called FoC via the net or mobile-phone but aren't they complicated options? And is there a home-phone supplier out there who fits my needs?
Any advice greatly appreciated!
Cheers, Linda.
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You will be able to call 0500, 0800 and 0808 numbers from your mobile's inclusive minutes if you use one of the 0200 gateways - 0200 222 0700 or 0200 222 0900.
One or other will work (but probably not both).
Sorry that won't work for 084 or 087 numbers though.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
there is a site called say no to 0870 and they give you alternate numbers , try this insteadi will be debt free, i will0
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