Signing up for call1899/18866/18185

Victor_Delta

I've been using them for several years and never had any problems.

One or two people have had occasional issues but I think they have mainly been caused by payment problems eg when direct debits have 'bounced', or cards expired etc.

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louiser123

hi all,
please forgive me as i am very new to this thread and i dont understand some things, i have tried to look for answers but couldnt find any.
i am a bt customer i have home phone on bt option 3 free calls all the time to national numbers. and bt total broadband. im happy with the service but wondered if i might benefit from joining one of these companys for mobile calls. im not sure how it works or wether it will be cheaper, so just wanted any input from you experts!
thanks in advance

Heinz

Calls to any UK mobile cost 5p connection and 6p per minute via the 18185 prefix weekdays or 4p connection and 4p per minute via 18185's 020 and 0808 gateway numbers at weekends .

scooby32

Thanks to all for the very helpful replies. Joined 18185 tonigt and up and working fine. I also joined my mobile number which is with o2 to use their 0208 number if I need to make international / 0845 calls when not at home. It stated check 0208 numbers are free with your mobile provider. I checked o2 t'& c s and all calls to 01, 02 in monthly allowance , however I found a clause that said any numbers known to be call forwarding are not. Anyone used tis service with o2 or come accross them charging more for this.

gordon_k

After I dial someone using the 18185 prefix, if they do a 1471 the caller number shows up as my own.

Is it possible to mask my number by inserting 141 into dialling sequence somewhere?

Heinz

gordon_k wrote: »

After I dial someone using the 18185 prefix, if they do a 1471 the caller number shows up as my own.

Is it possible to mask my number by inserting 141 into dialling sequence somewhere?

Should be. Dial 141 first (i.e. 14118185 and then the number)

scooby32

scooby32 wrote: »

Thanks to all for the very helpful replies. Joined 18185 tonigt and up and working fine. I also joined my mobile number which is with o2 to use their 0208 number if I need to make international / 0845 calls when not at home. It stated check 0208 numbers are free with your mobile provider. I checked o2 t'& c s and all calls to 01, 02 in monthly allowance , however I found a clause that said any numbers known to be call forwarding are not. Anyone used tis service with o2 or come accross them charging more for this.

Can anyone help? thanks

gordon_k

Heinz wrote: »

Dial 141 first (i.e. 14118185 and then the number)

Success.

Cheers Heinz.

gordon_k

scooby32 wrote: »

It stated check 0208 numbers are free with your mobile provider. I checked o2 t'& c s and all calls to 01, 02 in monthly allowance , however I found a clause that said any numbers known to be call forwarding are not. Anyone used tis service with o2 or come accross them charging more for this.

I don't have an O2 mobile, but AFAIK when O2 introduced the charges (summer 2007) the 18185 prefix wouldn't work, but the 0208 number would.

Might have cracked down since then however...

utilitybroker

scooby32 wrote: »

Thanks to all for the very helpful replies. Joined 18185 tonigt and up and working fine. I also joined my mobile number which is with o2 to use their 0208 number if I need to make international / 0845 calls when not at home. It stated check 0208 numbers are free with your mobile provider. I checked o2 t'& c s and all calls to 01, 02 in monthly allowance , however I found a clause that said any numbers known to be call forwarding are not. Anyone used tis service with o2 or come accross them charging more for this.

Calls to the 18185 0208 access number which is a normal geographic number will come out of your inclusive O2 minutes.