Call 1899/18185/18866 to charge per minute (merged)

Daniel_B

Just had an e-mail about some special offers, and noticed at the bottom this:

*Please note: from the 20th of July calls via 1899 will be billed per
minute.

Is this just for international calls - says nothing about it on their website, and the above statement would seem to be a sweeping statement - ie ALL calls made via 1899 will be billed per minute.

Dan

ginger_nuts

I dont think its for UK landline calls .

pricefighter

Clearly states on their site.
"Prices are in pence per minute. Calls are billed per minute rounded to the nearest penny, include VAT and are subject to change. 1899 calls are subject to a 3p connection fee."

So i guess that calls to 01/02 geo numbers will remain at just 3p connection for the moment.

Be_Happy

Think they've slipped in a change to the terms and conditions. Cable customers like me are charged 1p per minute. This has been billed per second with no rounding to nearest penny. (I've just looked at my online itemised charges to double check this).

Looks as if from 20 July our calls will be rounded to nearest penny. A very slight difference, but will probably mount up to a moderate price increase where calls get answered by 1571 or an answering machine. Difficult to cut off before machine answers as there is often no time for ringing tone between message of price per minute and phone being answered.

Paul_Varjak

From 20th July 2006, 1899.com are billing by ther minute (rather than per seond)

pricefighter

See also http://www.saynoto0870.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.cgi?num=1153250011

Mikeyorks

Just had an Email from 18185 with the following in small print "*Please note: from the 20th of July calls via 18185 will be billed per minute."

As (see thread above re 1899) they bill international calls by the minute currently - that has to relate to UK land lines? But nothing on their Web site.

pricefighter

Mikeyorks wrote:

Just had an Email from 18185 with the following in small print "*Please note: from the 20th of July calls via 18185 will be billed per minute."

As (see thread above re 1899) they bill international calls by the minute currently - that has to relate to UK land lines? But nothing on their Web site.

Even if they did bill 01/02 calls by the minute,as they are zero p a minute for 1899/18185/18866 access,you would still only pay the connection charge.

Cable and Mobile Users using 020 and 0808 access numbers would pay more.

Heinz

Putting this into perspective and using a recent 18185 call (1p/minute) to Spain as an example:

16m16s cost 4p connection + 16.27p = 20.27p

The length of that call will now be rounded up to 17m00s so,

17m00s will cost 4p connection + 17p = 21p

I don't think another mortgage is going to be needed!

orsonkart_2

So i will end up paying slightly more for my mobile and peak ngn calls on 18185

I guess it looks better then them increasing connection charges further.

ioscorpio

*Please note: from the 20th of July calls via 18185 will be billed perminute.