UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v119, 31 Jan 2008

Comparisons of 161 residential and 95 business telephone tariff call 
costs, and 202 residential and 115 business call plans charged by 158
different operators and resellers in the United Kingdom, compiled by
Magenta Systems Ltd.

05pence, 0844 Calls, 123Call, 18185.co.uk, 1899.com, 21st Century 
Telecom, 4tel Communications, Abroadcall, AbroadTel, ACN, Adept 
Telecom, Alpha Telecom, AOL, Auracall, Axis Telecom, Babble, Band 
Telecom, Barablu, Beaming, BillSmart, Britclick, British Telecom, 
Budgetcom, Bulldog, Business Communications, BWN Telecom, Call 18866, 
Call2Call, Call2Save, Callserve, Callthrough.co.uk, Call Union, Care 
Telecom, Carphone Warehouse, CF1 Telecom, Cheapest Calls, Cheapest 
Chat, Cheers International, CherryCall, Clever Rates, Coms.Com, 
Connaught, CountryCall, CytaUK, Daisy Communications, Demon, Direct 
Save Telecom, DrayTEL, Dial Around, DialWise, Discount Dial, Easy-Dial, 
Eclipse, Equitalk, Euphony, EW Communications, eZe-Talk, First National 
Telecom, First:Telecom, First Number, Focus 4U, FreeCall, FreedomCall,
Gem Telecom, GoTalk!, Gradwell, HIGHnet, ICUK, Intelligent Networks,
Internet Telecom, Jajah, Jersey Telecom, Joy Telecom, Just Phone, Kent
Telephones, Kingston Comms, Lansdowne Telecom, Liquid Telecom, Lo-Call
Telecom, LycaTel, MCI WorldCom, MegaCalls, Midas Telecom, My Mondo,
NetCalls4Less, Nildram, Nomi Dial, OneBill Telecom, Opal, Orange,
PhoneBird, Phone Cheap, The Phone Co-Op, Pipex, Planet Talk, PlusNet,
Post Office, Primus, Qdial, Qualicom Aspire, Qudo, QX Telecom,
RateBuster, Resource Utilities, Saga Telephone Service, Sainsbury's 
Telecom, SchoolTel, Scottish & Southern Energy, Simply-Fone, Sip2Go, 
Sipgate, Skype, Sky Talk, Smallworld Media, Solwise, Story Telecom, 
SuperLine, Swiftcall, Swiftnet, Switch Telecom, Talkcheaper.net, 
Telappliant, Telecom Plus, Telediscount, Telesave, Telesavers, 
Telestunt, TeleTop, Telstra, Tesco Talk, Tiscali, Topup2Talk, TopUpNow, 
Toucan, UKCall, Unicom, Universal Telecom, Uniworld, Vectone, Ventelo, 
Virgin Media (ntl:Telewest), Vodafone, Voice Trading, Voicenet, 
VoIP-4U, VoIPCheap, Voipfone, Vonage, WebCall Direct, Welcome Telecom, 
Work-Phones, XFone, XLN Telecom, Yellow Telecoms, Yourcalls.net, Your 
Communications, Your Connection, and Zen Internet.
The full tariff comparison may also be viewed on-line at:

     http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/

Please note the full range of tariff information is only available to
paid members. Non-members may still view residential tariffs on the web
site, but only members can view business tariffs and download the
original spreadsheets and Acrobat (PDF) files.

Full membership details are on the web site.

Version 119 in late January 2008 adds 05pence (residential) and
Abroadcall (residential)  and updates BT, AbroadTel (residential), 
Clever Rates (residential), Gradwell (business), Internet 
Telecommunications (business and residential),  PhoneBird 
(residential), Welcome Telecom (business) and XLN Telecom (business).

BT Together 1 residential customers now have free weekend calls (for 
the first hour), previously 4.5p for the hour. 

BT has simplified the costing of international ISDN 64K data calls, so
all schemes now use the same five country bands, down from 10 on some 
schemes, some prices will have gone up, some down. There are now 98 
different directory enquiry tariff bands, the latest of which costs
£3.68 for the first minute, then £1.99 each extra minute.   

From 20th February 2008, all BT business customers with a single 
telephone line will start a new 12 month contract on BT Business Line 
Divert at the same price as a normal business line but including call 
diversion feature.  The new contract means 12 months rental must be 
paid even if the line is cancelled or transferred to another provider.  
Such customers should receive a letter in February allowing them to opt 
out of the new contract and call divert, which they may not need or 
want. 

The planned reduction in cost of 0870 calls due on 1st February 2008 
appears to have been delayed by Ofcom and BT due to disputes with 
various providers that are reluctant to forego the massive revenue such 
numbers generate, and which have not moved customers onto alternate 
numbers despite almost two year's notice of the changes.  Not a single 
operator has yet announced a reduction in the cost of calling 0870 
numbers.

> UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v119, 31 Jan 2008

The info on these pages is difficult to compare and difficult to read.  It
needs making easier to see 'at a glance'
Truely Messy IMO.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:13:03 UTC, "Martin"  wrote:

> 
> > UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v119, 31 Jan 2008
> 
> The info on these pages is difficult to compare and difficult to read.  It
> needs making easier to see 'at a glance'
> Truely Messy IMO.

Seen anything better, that's free? Thought not.

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