Any recommendations for land line only

hareng

Do you get charged the 10.9p connection charge Stuart?

Stuart_W

hareng wrote: »

Do you get charged the 10.9p connection charge Stuart?

No I don't. That's why it makes sense for low use and short calls - which is me. It also means those nasty 0844 numbers etc, only cost the accurate BT-equivalent per minute charge - but charged by the second - with no connection fee, just a minimum call charge of 1.2p.

It might mean a 3 minute 0845 call at the weekend costs me 3p whereas most people can get such a call for "free", but a quick daytime call round the corner may only costs me 2p rather than 20p when connection fees and first minute charging are taken into account.

Some providers have a connection fee AND charge in full minutes. I have per second billing and no connection fee. Suits me. Off peak starts at 6pm and ends 8am like it always used to with everyone else, too. Many have jumped to longer peak times.

If you are a member of The Co-operative Group (the food supermarket) there is a bonus point deal if you join via their link. (1500 points could be worth £30 depending what divi is declared). Also worth joining the phone co-op to get an annual dividend based on your spend.

The CallerPlus tariff is available to new customers, but not available with some of their bundled broadband deals, except this one which may not be price competitive with other options.

Phones4Chris

macman wrote: »

'Local' calls have not existed for many years. It costs the same to phone next door or the other end of the country.
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I have a Onetel account and until recently had line rental with it, which included inclusive local calls 24/7.
National & 0845/0870 were inclusive at the w/e.
Please note, you can no longer sign up to Onetel, you can only use their services if you have an active account, otherwise it's TalkTalk - ugh!

sbunny

As Stuart_W mentioned The Phone Coop 'Caller Plus' tarrif, I though I would say how this tariff served us well when I had Virgin Cable line. It allowed me to avoid connection charge and high Virgin Media call costs, but I still wanted Virgin Media cable broadband and came as bundle. The only draw back was having to predial a 0800 number which but we set this on the phone. We moved to a new home that could no longer got Cable Virgin but were locked into using them with BT Open reach / ADSL. We still used phone coop but code changed to pre dial 1840 on BT Openreach lines. Caller Plus is very useful to use the 0844 numbers for international calls as on msecallchecker.com
Now out of the lockin period we switched to Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) for line rental (incoming only) & broadband (using VoIP for our calls) This is not cheapest set up but I have chosen it for various reason including control & technical support, as The Phone Coop was not quite right for now, but they served me well. Do be careful with The Phone Coop (& others) to look at all deals they do as one they headline with may not be right one.

macman

Do they qualify for BT Basic?
However, if they do qualify, make very sure that your definition of 'not many calls' is correctly understood-if you go over the inclusive call allowance on Basic then it is very expensive.
We had someone on here the other day who was unnecessarily spending £45 per quarter on exclusive calls and thought that 'wasn't much' either!
Generally speaking, elderly retired people will be better off on an Anytime tariff. This is not 'the cheapest BT tariff', but may mean that their actual bill is lower, because they can make unlimited daytime or evening landline calls within their allowance. This costs only £4.99pm over the base tariff. So if they are spending more than £5 pm on exclusve calls, that will be cheaper for them.

hareng

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Rolling? Or auto renewing? The terms and conditions don't specify but seems to imply that you renew for periods of a whole year.

Over the last few weeks i intended to leave as it was a rolling contract the last few years and expressed my views on it.

I now have it in writing:-
"I can advise you that as per our previous emails, your contract will end on 27th February 2012. After this point you can leave at any time with no cancellation charges."