BE and Zen announce landline products to compete with BT

Mark_In_Hampshire

Following Zen's announcement, BE are also getting in on the act:

Two new operators are entering the phoneline market today with both BE and Zen announcing their landline products to compete with BT. This will allow consumers and businesses to buy a phone line direct from their favoured broadband provider rather than having to manage separate contracts with another company.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4337-be-and-zen-announce-landline-products-to-compete-with-bt.html

aaj123

Mark_In_Hampshire wrote: »

Following Zen's announcement, BE are also getting in on the act:



http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4337-be-and-zen-announce-landline-products-to-compete-with-bt.html

What do Zen and BE charge for 0844 calls (particularly the G22 band i.e the one which costs 0.5p per min on BT and Sky)? I couldn't find this info on their website.

Mark_In_Hampshire

I'm not sure how clearly defined the packages are, at this point - seems a little like the O2 Home Phone rollout, where the announcement about the fact it was coming came a while ahead of it being available, leaving lots of eager people with lots of questions

Mr_Oink

Mark_In_Hampshire wrote: »

.. leaving lots of eager people with lots of questions

I'm not so sure - when I read the name 'Zen' I suddenly lost all interest, having had the misfortune of dealing with them in the past.

ZEN: "Yeah Guv, it's the AR7 chipset in yer modem"
ME "but it has a Conexant chipset!"
ZEN "click"
ME "Hello?"

Thanks, but *no thanks*

JustPassingBy

aaj123 wrote: »

What do Zen and BE charge for 0844 calls (particularly the G22 band i.e the one which costs 0.5p per min on BT and Sky)? I couldn't find this info on their website.

http://www.zen.co.uk/userfiles/documents/shared/voice/zen-talk-services-non-key-uk-tariffs.pdf

and

http://tg.bethere.co.uk/downloads/Landline/BE%20landline%20pricelist-DRAFT.pdf

BE is 0.0p per minute at all times for g22. Plus 10.9p for the first 60 seconds.