Tesco HOME PHONE ONLY Pay as you go - opinions?

jno

http://www.tesco.com/tescotalk/tariff/?page=talk1

Does anyone have any experience with this ?

Any comments appreciated.

Bufflowbill

Its not a good deal,and its not a good idea to move your line rental from BT.

Tesco Talk £11 rental with caller display £1.50p = £12.50p a month.

BT £10.75p (Online) rental plus virtually free caller display 11p = £10.86 p a month.

If your really interested in saving money on your bills have a read of this post.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1598074&postcount=4

jno

Where does it say £1.50p for Caller Display for Tesco?

Why not move line rental from BT apart from the 14p saving a month ?

Surely pay as you go is a good option for those who make very few local calls only during the week and never make international or calls to mobiles.

Heinz

jno wrote: »

Where does it say £1.50p for Caller Display for Tesco?

Why not move line rental from BT apart from the 14p saving a month ?

Surely pay as you go is a good option for those who make very few local calls only during the week and never make international or calls to mobiles.

There are a number of reasons to leave your line rental with BT but, in your specific case, being able to use 18185, 1899 or 18866 to make UK 01/02 calls of any duration and at any time for 5p each is probably the main one (using Tesco, a daytime UK 01/02 call would cost 2.8p per minute - 0.2p per minute less than BT).

I don't understand why Tesco describe it as 'pay as you go' - they charge for calls made after you've made them, just like everyone else does unless people pay up front for an 'inclusive' package.

Actually, Tesco charges £1.75 per month for Caller Display - by making 2 calls per month (2 x 5½p evening or weekend UK 01/02 calls of less than an hour) that'd cost 11p on BT.

JohalaReewi

More importantly, Tesco Home Phone admin is a nightmare. They move random amounts of money in and out of your bank account for no apparent reason and are incapable of providing a bill. Their billing system went belly up around October last year and AFAIK, it hasn't been sorted out yet. I would def. recommend following Heinz's advice.

Heinz

JohalaReewi wrote: »

I would def. recommend following Heinz's advice.

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