18866 3p connection charge

challisj

Taken from https://www.call18866.co.uk

"(05.09.2005) Connection fee change
Dear customer,
From the 6th of september all calls via 18866 are subjected to a connection fee of 3p per minute. All calls to landlines within the U.K. will remain 0p per minute!
Best regards, 18866"

Price change effective from tomorrow.

Do any of the other providers now beat this?
ChallisJ

pricefighter

No one beats them still on calls to 01/02 numbers from a landline.
Now 18866 charge same as 1899. 3p connection and free calls.(They are now the joint cheapest) on calls to 01/02 uk landlines.Followed by 18185 at 4p connection,free calls.

CrazyChemist_2

Oh dear It was bound to happen some day...

It's probably worth some people now switching to an unlimited plan such as TalkTalk's Talk3 plan for £7.49 (first 3 months free) if they make more than 250 daytime/evening calls per month.

Are their costs genuinely rising or is this just a push to increase profit margins? It isn't as if we have a different choice of telecoms provider though, for the moment anyway...

pricefighter

CrazyChemist wrote:

It's probably worth some people now switching to an unlimited plan such as TalkTalk's Talk3 plan for £7.49 (first 3 months free) if they make more than 250 daytime/evening calls per month.

Surely it would be better if people switched to a Free Evening/Weekend call supplier to 01/02 numbers, like Just Dial Saver or Tele 2,and use 18866 or 1899 just for there peak 01/02 calls.

Aiadi

Started at 1p/call, gone up to 2 and now 3p. Greed tends to take over once your customer base is widened. I'll stick with voipbuster for now (until they raise their tariff too). It is an absolute disgrace that they are fully capable of emailing us the invoices promptly but keep these price rises quiet for us to discover them through forums like this.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

pricefighter wrote:

Surely it would be better if people switched to a Free Evening/Weekend call supplier to 01/02 numbers, like Just Dial Saver or Tele 2,and use 18866 or 1899 just for there peak 01/02 calls.

Yeah, but do dialsaverlite charge a connection fee and if so what is it???

Umer

For someone who makes under 10 landline calls a day, it's still great value! Shame about the increase, might switch to 1899 for all my calls now.

pricefighter

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote:

Yeah, but do dialsaverlite charge a connection fee and if so what is it???

No read the thread running on this page for full details.Its Justdialsaver.

bunking_off

CrazyChemist wrote:

Are their costs genuinely rising or is this just a push to increase profit margins? It isn't as if we have a different choice of telecoms provider though, for the moment anyway...

Anyone who has experience of the complexities of telephone interconnect charging would tell you that it was pretty much impossible to make a margin at 1ppc, and highly unlikely in most cases at 2ppc. So it's certainly not a case of increasing profit margins....more a case of reducing the loss they must be making.

April2

The 18866 news item - http://www.call18866.co.uk/news.php#0 - does, indeed, state 'a connection fee of 3p per minute'.

Surely a 'connection charge' is a fixed fee and a 'per minute' charge is ....er .... the charge per minute?

I think I'll be changing to 1899 to be on the safe side.

Rikki

It is just a written mistake by challisj .
The connection charge is 3p and the call is 0p per minute.