Coping with unlimited calls

jimieee

I have an "unlimited" calls package wth Sky, but of course they start charging you if you stay on the phone for more than an hour.

Some of my household are really struggling to remember to hang up and redial and I'm being charged a few quid extra on top of my standing charges every month.

I can't believe I'm the only one to have had this problem - is there some device out there to remind the user to hang up and redial?

If not what have other people done in this situation?

brightonman123

egg timer / alarm clock, from pound shop?


Most phone co's have an hour limit- think it was initially done to stop dial up internet (ask a parent!) users from hogging the network..

macman

Almost every mobile phone has an alarm and stopwatch function on it.
But TBH, if they're too dozy to realise that they've been nattering for an hour, then they're not going to bother setting it in the first place.

Bigphil1474

Had this problem with my OH. As brightonman says, get a cheap timer, the ones you might use for cooking. Set it to countdown from 1 hour - set it going before you dial, then hang up when it gets to zero. Or buy a phone with a call timer display. Or start your call at 9pm, leave the tv on BBC1, then hang up when the 10 o'clock news starts. So far this year, we've had no call charges, so saved the cost of the timer (99p).

Heinz

Ah yes, the benefit of a 90 minute call limit evenings and weekends! Even my OH can't natter for that length of time.

And 5p for a call of whatever duration weekday daytimes (using 18185).

macman

Heinz wrote: »

Ah yes, the benefit of a 90 minute call limit evenings and weekends! Even my OH can't natter for that length of time.

And 5p for a call of whatever duration weekday daytimes (using 18185).

Mine can. Came back from a trip recently to find a bill for a 1hr 49min call, grr...
That doubled my monthly call charge.