Landline to Mobile Help required

rhiannon1234

Our BT home phone contract expires in August, so I am shopping around.

Our bill averages £180 - £200 per quarter including line rental. My partner makes a lot of mobile calls, I tell him to hang up before it gets to answerphone so to save the connection charge but he doesn't always listen to me.

Wonder if any one had advise on the best / cheapers providers for landline to mobile calls?

Trying to get him to dial a pre-fix will be hard work, I also begrudge paying half the bill when I probably use about £5.00 of calls!

Heinz

Like all other landline providers, BT are expensive for mobile calls (they charge 9.9p connection + 12½p/minute for daytime and 7½p/minute evenings to call any UK mobile although adding their £1.49/month Friends & Family Mobile Add-on would get the per minute cost of those calls down to 7.2p/minute).

You could cut the cost to call mobiles at weekends by switching to Post Office Home Phone (they offer free calls of up to 60 minutes each to UK mobiles at weekends). However, their weekday charges to call UK mobiles are 9.4p connection + 13p/minute (21.53p/minute to '3' mobiles) and 9.4p connection + 8p/minute weekday evenings (16.1p/minute to '3' mobiles).

The simple solution is to use 18185 for those calls to mobiles weekdays and 1899 at weekends. That would enable you (him) to make them for 5p conneciton + 6p/minute at any time. Sorry, IMHO, 'too difficult' is not an acceptable reply in this case - large amounts of money are involved).

BTW, how many of your calls to landlines are 'off plan' (i.e. not inclusive)? Weekday daytime calls cost 9.9p connection + 5.9p/minute (to be 10.9p + 6.9p/minute from 1-10-10) or 9.9p connection + 1.5p/minute weekday evenings at the moment but would cost 5p each, regardless of duration with 18185, 1899 or 18866..

APOLOGIES FOR REPEATED EDITS. I'VE STOPPED NOW.

rhiannon1234

We have the BT Anytime package so all landline calls day & night are included in our package.

I was looking at the post office package as a option.

Heinz

rhiannon1234 wrote: »

We have the BT Anytime package so all landline calls day & night are included in our package.

I was looking at the post office package as a option.

Your problem there is the cost of calls to mobiles weekdays and the excessive cost of calls to '3' mobiles. I doubt you(he) knows when you're(he's) calling a '3' mobile.

Come to think of it, POHP don't do an 'Anytime' package similar to BT's.

OldGreyFox

The sort of money your partner is spending you would be getting a no contract mobile sim and sticking it in a unlocked mobile phone.

For £35 a month, (£17.50 ) in July you can get a goody bag containing unlimited calls to mobiles & landlines etc etc from www.giffgaff.com

rhiannon1234

The mobile reception at our house isn't great. My partner gets one bar only in the lounge, I get one bar in most of the house, but that is not enough for frequent calls.

If only we could use mobiles as my partner has a company phone.

Heinz

rhiannon1234 wrote: »

The mobile reception at our house isn't great. My partner gets one bar only in the lounge, I get one bar in most of the house, but that is not enough for frequent calls.

So do I on T-Mobile - but 4 or 5 bars on Orange, O2, and Vodafone (never tried '3').