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AIMEEJAAN

hi has anybody used the simply-fone facility they had a 077 number that let you dial an international numba and you could dial and the call would be deducted from your free minutes( im on orange) . i have used this for the past 3 weeks and today when i dialled the numba i had a prompt telling me this numba would be charged at a premium rate! has anybody used them and the same thing happened!

Edinburghlass_2

z1000000 wrote:

Rats! I missed it. Yesterday the callchecker showed the lowest cost to call Saudi as 2p with Dialwise, but today it's gone up to 3p.
No doubt due to the callchecker, I can't register with 1899 as they have run out of capacity.
Perhaps the Telco's are using the callchecker as well!

this is a common problem with 1899. try again using you mobile numer to register, if it goes through okay, go back and enter your landline numer

andy88_2

AIMEEJAAN wrote:

hi has anybody used the simply-fone facility they had a 077 number that let you dial an international numba and you could dial and the call would be deducted from your free minutes( im on orange) . i have used this for the past 3 weeks and today when i dialled the numba i had a prompt telling me this numba would be charged at a premium rate! has anybody used them and the same thing happened!

Orange seem to have changed policy on this; much more about it on the mobiles board - Free international min... thread and others

mariastella

hi.
i have been pestered by homecalls about joining their scheme @£14.50 per month included BT line rental and free calls eve and weekends.
it's sound very interesting. can the number be override by 18866, that at present i use all the time?
any other provider better than homecalls? one.tel seems ok too, what about the overriding business by these new and ever better 1p/min numbers for international calls?

thanks to whome can clirify my mind!!!

Edinburghlass_2

mariastella wrote:

hi.
i have been pestered by homecalls about joining their scheme @£14.50 per month included BT line rental and free calls eve and weekends.
it's sound very interesting. can the number be override by 18866, that at present i use all the time?
any other provider better than homecalls? one.tel seems ok too, what about the overriding business by these new and ever better 1p/min numbers for international calls?

thanks to whom can clarify my mind!!!

well i'll try.....

if you pay £10.50 line rental to BT that leaves £4 you would be paying Homecall for free calls whether you use them or not. So the Onetel offer
of a free year of evening and w/end calls along with £20 free credit is a better offer. Then use 18866 for your daytime calls. For international calls use the call checker to find the best rates. Onetel will allow you to overide for these calls, i don't know about Homecall.

If you decide to sign up for Onetel, please read Martin's thread here and if you sign up using the link in his post MSE will gain a small contribution which enables Martin to keep MSE ad-free, run the forums and donate to charity.

HTH and if you have any other questions please let us know.

AIMEEJAAN

renee wrote:

on the mobile section posts say you can call Pakistan at no cost from your mobile with simplyphone by dialling 07744974363

's gotta be the cheapest . heh. :j

is this number still in use its great ! but when i ve used it recentley i get a message saying that this is a premium number! does any1 know of any other numbers like these

thanks

danmanchester

AIMEEJAAN wrote:

is this number still in use its great ! but when i ve used it recentley i get a message saying that this is a premium number! does any1 know of any other numbers like these

thanks

I read on another thread that Orange have now decided that they consider the 07744 number as a premium rate and are charging for it :mad: , as far as I know the number still works on O2, T Mobile and BT Mobile. I'm with BT Mobile but am getting a bit worried that all the companies have got wind of this "free x network minutes" loophole and are looking to close it...grrrrrrr.
here's the thread talking about Orange and Simplyfone: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=447929#post447929

rcanter

I have been using the international call checker regularly and have also found that I am unable to get calls through, from my home line. The numbers are correct but there seems to be congestion. What I have noticed is that I can call (say Dial Around) from my mobile and get through, but calling from the home line I get the message that there is congestion. Can anyone explain this?

I also tried registering to get updates (as suggested on the message) on when the congestion will be sorted out but couldn't submit a correct telephone line, thus couldn't complete the form and write a comment to the company complaining of their lack of service.

z1000000

Thank's Endiburglass, I'll try that.

I checked the checker today, and Dialwise is missing from the Saudi Arabia list.
Dialwise's site still show 3p a minute calls on 0844 439 45 45 to KSA.
So I think it's still the cheapest.

Keeno_2

Martin maybe you could check this out for me.
I used the call checker to find out the cheapest calls to a mobile in Fuerteventura (my parents live there) Liquid Telecom came out best at 6p min. Once the account had been set up I called my parents for approx 1hr. I then went to my account at LTelecom to check the charge details and found that I had been on for 1hr 8min & 57 sec and had been charged £13.11.
Just quickly working out in my head 6p X 60 min should only be £3.60, I realised I had been wrongly charged. I called customer services to query this and was told I had called a Spanish mobile (Vodafone) which costs 19p min, I said that I had called a mobile that had been bought in Fuerteventura (which I confirmed with my parents) They then said that fuerteventura calls are prefixed 00 34 928 not just 00 34 when I asked my Mum about this she said that 928 was just the area code for Fuerteventura landlines. I also checked and confirmed this on a couple of websites. She also told me that as far as she is aware all mobiles in the canaries are ultimately owned by Spanish Mainland companies, therefore, I cant see how you can possibly call a "Fuerteventura" Mobile phone?
I told them that I felt that there price list was misleading and they should only charge me the 6p min, they were adamant that I had called a Spanish mobile (which in my account details the call was listed as to "SPAIN MOBILE - VODAFONE" )
I just think that they should have looked into this more instead of just fobbing me off with "well you did call spain"