Thinking of changing call provider - currently with BT

Heinz

macminiuser wrote:

To avoid any confusion, I DO work for Yourcalls.net

Just for future reference, the Anytime Saver package, consisting of £9.99 line rental (obligatory) plus £4.99 Anytime calls to UK landlines is inclusive of VAT.

Heinz (or anyone else who'd like to comment) - Would you find the Anytime Saver package more favourable if Yourcalls.net offered it on a CPS-only basis, so customers would have the option of keeping their line rental with BT for free Caller Display etc?

If you want it, and I can demonstrate a desire for it to the bosses, I can make it happen - then there'll be a CPS only £4.99 (or less) Anytime UK landline call package, with no contract, on the market. What with 18185 et al putting their fixed price UK calls up to 5p a go, this may well work out better value for high-frequency UK landline callers?

As you will know, I'm one of the 'stick with BT for line rental' brigade and never consider packages which require a subsciber to transfer their line rental too.

At the moment, my opinion is that the best money-saving option for most working people (i.e. those who go out to work) is Primus Saver Opton 2 because it's a CPS service and offers free evening and weekend calls of up to 90 minutes (redial to avoid charges) to any UK 01/02 numbers for no monthly fee.

However, there are a few very good alternatives for those requiring a package which includes 'any time' UK 01/02 calls and, as you'll see at the bottom of my suggestions page, those which currently appear the most attractive from a money-saving point of view (i.e. they're cheapest) are:

1. Euphony's £5.99 per month eutalk+18 CPS package
   
2. Euphony's £7.25 per month eutalk+12 CPS package
3. Sky's £5 per month Sky Talk Unlimited CPS package

Each of those has 'added value' (a £4.99/month discount for the first 6 months and free calls to 28 specified countries with the eutalk+18 package, free calls to 28 specified countries with the eutalk+12 package and free calls to 10 specified countries with the Sky package) and 'drawbacks' (the need to sign up to an 18 month or 12 month contract with the respective Euphony packages and the need to additionally continue paying a Sky TV subscription in the case of the Sky package).

So, a £4.99 (or less) Yourcalls.net Anytime Saver CPS package would certainly have attractions.

Over to you.

macminiuser

Heinz wrote:

So, a £4.99 (or less) Yourcalls.net Anytime Saver CPS package would certainly have attractions.

Over to you.

Right you are, sir! I'll see what I can come up with for you.

:beer:

ioscorpio

I'm currently looking at Eclipse Internet Anytime Calls at £5.99 so if there is one for £4.99 I would be interested

hurrah

ioscorpio wrote:

I'm currently looking at Eclipse Internet Anytime Calls at £5.99 so if there is one for £4.99 I would be interested

Euphony eutalk 18 plus only works out at £4.33p a month for first 18 months. (18 months contract) and includes intl calls to 28 countries.

gt94sss2

macminiuser wrote:

Really? Which ones?

I was actually looking at your non Golden Destination prices.

BT now charge 5p/8p/13p minute as standard to all mobile networks (apart from 3) - the BT prices listed on your website are now out of date. (+ another 25% off if you chose their pay for their 'CallMobile' option) - though 18185 are cheaper still.

Even with the Golden Destination prices, your Orange Mobile weekend price looks more than BT's standard price.

Regards
Sunil

ioscorpio

hurrah
Only problem is it ties you into an 18 month comtract, I have my broadband with Eclipse and so if I decide to move to another package, it will be easier

Heinz

macminiuser wrote:

Right you are, sir! I'll see what I can come up with for you.

No luck convincing 'the powers that be' then?

macminiuser

Heinz wrote:

No luck convincing 'the powers that be' then?

it's coming! watch this space... we've had to make some changes to the website, to differentiate between line rental and calls and CPS only customers (for instance, not showing the "change your line services" interface if you're a calls-only customer).

conservative estimate for the new site to go live, with calls only product, is the beginning of March. Or sooner if the techies grow tired of my relentless "are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?"

Heinz

Thanks.

Please post on this thread - I've subscribed to it now.

Update 7 March 2007 - macminiuser has now posted (see post #41) progress.

macminiuser

Heinz me old mucker... sorry for not reading my PMs - I'm a bit of a noob at forums so I never think to check my PMs.

The CPS product is in final testing stages (there are quite a few changes needed to our Customer Zone interface and provisioning system to allow for WLR and CPS-only customers apparently). Sorry for the delay - rest assured I am chasing as much as I can at this end, with my limited influence - I want to see it happen so I can go, "look mum! I did that!"

When the techies are happy it's safe and reliable, it'll be deployed, hopefully by the end of the month. You'll be the first to know when it's about to go live!

Will keep you posted, and sorry again for not seeing your PMs!