Post Office HomePhone cheaper?

pinkyler

Hello everyone,

Recently I picked up a leaflet from my local post office about Post Office HomePhone service.

It claims customers of BT Together Option 1, can make great savings by switching to Post Office Home Phone.

The policy is calls are charged by the second rather than the minute, and there will be no minimum call charge nor connection fee.

Other features:

-One easy to understand bill for all calls, line rental , and additional features
-Simple call rates - no complicated tariffs to choose between
-Free 24 hour Customer Care Line staffed by real people, not machines
-Extra 10% discount on the 10 numbers you call most
-Free calls to selected friends on their birthdays and Christmas Day
-Calls charged by the second - only pay for the time you talk
-Line rental and other call features charged the same as BT rates
-A first class service from a name you can trust

Line rental is the same as BT. That's £10.50 a month by Direct Debit or £11.50 a month otherwise. And other phone features are at the same price too.

The call rates listed are as below:

UK local and national calls: Daytime 2.5p, Evening 1.25p, Weekend 1p.

Calling mobiles: Daytime 13p, Evening 9p, Weekend 5p.

International Calls: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, USA - Daytime 8p, Evening 5p, Weekend 5p.

The small text at the bottom of leaflet says:

All prices include VAT. Other charges apply to premium rate numbers, directory enquiries, all non-voice calls(including internet) and non-geographic numbers (e.g. 0845, 0870).

Daytime is 8am to 6pm, evening is 6pm to 8am, weekend is all day Saturday and Sunday. * Mobile phone pricing applies to Orange, O2, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile and T-Mobile. Switching to Post Office HomePhone requires a BT line.

Right. That's about it. Any comments/views anyone? It sounds quite a good value to me. But then again I'm using 3G mobile phone so it's not much good in that sense. Does this in any way better than OneTel or those 18899(not sure the correct numbers) services?

Thanks for all your time.

allthatmularky

pinkyler wrote:

Does this in any way better than OneTel or those 18899(not sure the correct numbers) services?

No - and no again - just read Martin's article - the 18866 and 1899 are a penny connection then free and 3p connection then free. In tandem with Onetel you'll spend very little.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=27012&page=1

BexTech

PO charge 1.25 pence per minute at evenings and 1 pence per minute at weekends.
BT charge 5.5p for 60 minutes at evening and weekends.
Talk Talk (at the moment) charge ZERO pence for 70 minutes evening and weekends.

Call 18866 charge 1 pence per call anytime of the day.

As you can see the Post Office phone service isn't good at all.