Getting around Sky Talk Evenings & Weekend charges?

ClarkeKent

Just seen the very expensive Sky Talk Evening & Weekends, up to £4 from zero!

I know it includes mobiles but we never use our landline. However if we switch to the free plan the minutes are extortionate so IF we use our phone on the odd occasion it ends up costing a fortune.

Besides haggling or moving, has anyone found a good way around the Sky Talk issue since its implementation in Dec 15?

duchy

If you use your mobiles anyway then change to PAYG for Sky Talk and stop using the landline for outbound calls.

I don't quite understand why if you "never use your landline" call charges would be an issue - but then I don't see them as "extortionate " and fail to see how "never using the landline" would bring in call charges of more than £4 a month .

Either you use the landline or you don't.

Ian011

How many of the calls that you make on your mobile are made while you are at home? It would be cheaper overall to make those calls from your landline.

Why not wind the allowance on your mobile down so that it covers only the calls that you make while you are AWAY from home?

While you are at home, use your landline. For £8 per month Sky gives you UNLIMITED calls to geographic numbers starting 01 and 02, non-geographic numbers starting 03 and mobile numbers starting 071-075 and 077-079. In comparison, £8 per month on a mobile gets you very little.

If you can avoid calling numbers starting 070, 084, 087, 09 and 118, there will be nothing further to pay. If you really have to call 084, 087, 09 or 118 numbers, these are roughly 35p per minute cheaper from a landline than from a mobile.

Landline providers have botched their marketing. They usually promote deals with inclusive weekend calls in order to keep the headline price down. Outside of the inclusive allowance (i.e. weekday daytime), calls cost about 17p per call plus about 10p per minute. This has led to the widespread perception that using a landline is expensive - it is if you have an inappropriate call plan for your pattern of usage.

Anyone making more than about fifteen minutes of weekday calls per week on their landline will be better off with an anytime call plan. Once you have this, you can make as many calls as you like (as long as each call is less than 60 minutes long) without incurring any further cost. On a mobile, unlimited calls costs a LOT more than £8 per month.

teddysmum

I'm amazed that you have only just noticed the price changes as there was plenty of publicity and discussion on here.


The simple solution is to go for the PAYG package and make no landline calls or reduce your mobile package and use the landline while at home.

billsavings

If you need to make the occassional Sky landline call to a UK 01/02/03 landline number you can use the 18185 Freephone Number.

http://www.18185.co.uk/mobilerates.php 5p connection 1p a minute