Cheapest Home Phones Provider discussion area

mechy

VendorEmptor wrote:

Shurley Shum Mishtake?
Martin wrote "So who wins 18866 v 1899?
... Better still, though, simply set up accounts with both, and use 18866 for calling landlines all times and mobiles at weekends, and 1899 for calling mobiles."
Call1899 is always cheaper than Call18866 for calling mobiles. A neat table of comparison can be seen on https://www.nowherenearthegarden.com/calls/ although it has not yet been updated to show the 2p connection charge for Call18866.

I'll secound all of that, + I've bought the Orchid auto dialer, makes life easier

dpf2005

If you make call to mobiles and also make calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers and want an easy life, do the following. Subsribe to Vartec UK talk plan. Cost £9.99 per month, includes 15 hours call per month to land lines, 0845 and 0870 numbers. Repeat, includes 0845 and 0870 numbers! You also get free 99 minutes per month to any mobile evenings or weekends. Make sure you use these minutes in the evenings to get full value for them. Register also with 1899 and use this prefix for daytime or weekend calls to mobiles. Use correctly the free mobile minutes alone are worth the £9.99 charge per month with Vartec.

andy88_2

Heinz wrote:

I think you missed the point EL.

The problem appears to be false claims for payment/involvement of debt collectors in relation to an account which does not exist.

This thread is about the relative merits of the cheapest calls providers, so it is germane to question different tariff possibilities and how assumptions of cost are arrived at.

The post by sumita is about a dispute with a particular company. We don't see all the details. Myself I don't understand the £150 assumption being followed by a £69 disputed charge, or the compensation amounts.

But it is off-subject. The moderator has politely suggested that the complaint more appropriately belongs on the Vent Board. I am aware myself of a friend of a friend having a dispute with a different well-known retailer about the salesman forging a contract; it went on for 18 months; even after the Police investigated the forgery, the company was making threats of recovery. Just occasionally, these companies get it totally wrong, but that it not a reason for the aggrieved to expect total cessation of trading.

Heinz, I think you have missed the point. It is not in question that the parties are in dispute. We naturally feel inclined to take sides. Your sympathy has allowed you to forget that EL is not questioning or attempting to suppress that there is a dispute; only earlier - assumptions about cost, and now - that there is a better place to discuss it.

Edinburghlass_2

Thank you Andy.

Back to the topic of Cheapest Home Phones Provider it would appear that the long standing offer from TalkTalk of free w/end and evening UK calls for one year is now at an end.

They now have three options for landlines which can be found here. So it looks like Onetel, who have extended their offer for a further month is currently the best on the table.

gromituk

superhoop wrote:

By the way, does anyone know why both 18866 and 1899 keep changing their 0808 numbers (essential for us cable customers)? I programmed the old numbers into my phone and they still seem to work.

Because these numbers can be cheap/free to call from mobile phones until the phone companies cotton on and bump up the prices. So the old numbers will still work, but will be expensive to access from these phones.

minim55

indigogirl wrote:

....... More info for NTL users would be appreciated

I have a copy of the Complaint of the Year letter sent to NTL by a disgruntled customer if anyone wants it. It's hilarious.

VendorEmptor

Recent uproar about PatientLine (the exhorbitantly priced bedside telephone/TV service in an NHS hospital near you) prompts the question: Neither 18866 or 1899 can accept calls to these 070*** prefixed numbers. Does anyone know how to beat the system?

Fortunecooky

andy88 wrote:

This thread is about the relative merits of the cheapest calls providers, so it is germane to question different tariff possibilities and how assumptions of cost are arrived at.

The post by sumita is about a dispute with a particular company. We don't see all the details. Myself I don't understand the £150 assumption being followed by a £69 disputed charge, or the compensation amounts.

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Sure- I have complained to the people I should have - that is Carphone warehouse and as my complaint was valid, they paid up. Don't worry if you can't understand the figures of £150-00 and £69- they were made up by CPW !!! The compensation of £200 was for the time I spent chasing this matter- if you want to know more about consumer rights and I how have managed to get compensation for my time from various companies, do write on appropriate discussion forums.

The reason I posted that on the discussion about cheap telephone calls was to make new money savers aware that small print is very important and that sometimes even asking for literature to be sent to you ( so that you can read the small print ! ) can make trouble for you ! Lets hope this is the end of all the troubled emails on this subject. Time to open that bottle of champagne !

FREEisBetterThanCHEAP

indigogirl wrote:

The article is focussed on BT users with barely a mention of which, if any,of these override providers can be used with NTL
I use 1866 for almost all calls but cant use ONE-TEL for example as I dont have a BT line. More info for NTL users would be appreciated

Telecom Plus do the equivalent of NTL's Talk Unlimited for £10.50 a month. They also allow Cable customers totally free phonecalls 24/7 to other Telecom Plus customers (members of Utility Warehouse Discount Club) All my family and most of my friends are T P customers, so get FREE phonecalls between each other. That's nice! We also get cashbacks since we use other services from the company aswell, and so the monthly membership fee of £1.76 inc VAT is well covered.

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FREEisBetterThanCHEAP

mechy wrote:

I think 18866 is the cheapest

I think FREE is cheaper than cheapest!