Top Up Discount

The_Black_Ghost

I'm just looking for some confirmation about Top Up Discount. It details as such:

1) With your mobile phone, text us the message CALL to the short number 81223. This text will cost you £5 and we will credit your mobile phone with £5 of call credit.

2) Call access number 020 8180 26 26 from the same mobile you used to send the text message (020 calls are charged at your mobile provider's standard rate).

Calls are subject to a 5p connection fee. Australia (cellular) 6p/min.

So, I'm assuming that the £5 calling credit that goes onto ones mobile phone is what enables a connection to the access number. And once that credit runs out the call ends, and the access number can no longer be connected to. Would that be correct? I'm only wishing to clarify this so I do not end up using all my actual calling credit, rather than simply the £5 calling credit which the text to Top Up Discount put on my phone. I'm assuming that credit is usable only when calling their access number, and that said access number cannot be reached without such credit.

Even if it is more than 6p/min it has to be better than what Vodafone (pay as you go) cost me, that being £3.45 for 3 minutes, 30 seconds. It was a short call for the purpose of checking the price. It's mobile, to mobile, from Northern Ireland, to Australia. I'm on Vodaphone (pay as you go).

http://www.topupdiscount.co.uk/topuptext.php?m=yes

The_Black_Ghost

Alright, to update my own thread.

I called my friend, who as said, lives in Australia. My Vodafone (pay as you go) mobile to her mobile. I used this 'Top Up Discount' to do so. I sent the word "CALL" via text message to 81223, and it did indeed take £5 of my credit, before sending me a swift return message to point out I had £5 of calling credit to use via 'Top Up Discount', and that I could do so by dialing the number shown in the return text message which I had received.

I dialled the given access number which took me to a switch over where I then had to dial the number I wished to call, then press hash (#). I then received a recorded voice message saying "6 pence a minute" before the dial tone began. It actually made a few other noises before the actual dial tone came up, but it did connected us in the end. We talked for 50 minutes. And at 6p a minute, if my math is correct, that works out at £3.00. So, I should have a further £2 of calling credit (to use via 'Top Up Discount') left over, to use another time. At least one would think.

I checked my balance after the call as I was aware that the initial access number was charged at my mobile providers standard rate. My credit was £4 less than before I made the call. I'm not sure how that worked out but, perhaps that is the going rate of an 020 number, for about a minute, as I really don't think it was any longer. Or, perhaps it was something to do with it being mobile to mobile, rather than mobile to landline. Either way, it served me better than the £3.45 for 3 minutes, 30 seconds, without 'Top Up Discount' on my first call.

utilitybroker

What you actually pay per minute to use the service from Vodafone Payg is 30p a minute for the first 3 minutes ,and then 10p a minute thereafter to access the 020 geographical number.Plus you pay Teletop from their credit 6p a minute to OZ Mobile and 5p connection.So the call costs you say approx 16p a minute after first 3 minutes.

If you call between 7.30pm and 7.30am. You can register for stop the clock http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=template10&pageID=PPP_0007&tabIndex=0
and the 020 part of the call would only cost 90p for 60 minutes,instead of £6.

The_Black_Ghost

Cheers, utilitybroker. That info. is much appreciate. I'll have to give the "Stop the Clock" option a look in. 90p rather than £6.00! Nice one!

So, does the O20 number from 'Top Up Discount' fall into the UK fixed landline bracket? If so, we're in business. :cool: