UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v123, 31 May 2008

Comparisons of 148 residential and 82 business telephone tariff call 
costs, and 190 residential and 103 business call plans charged by 141
different operators and resellers in the United Kingdom, compiled by
Magenta Systems Ltd.

05pence, 0844 Calls, 123Call, 18185.co.uk, 1899.com, 4tel
Communications, Abroadcall, AbroadTel, ACN, Adept Telecom, Alpha 
Telecom, AOL, Auracall, Axis Telecom, Band Telecom, Barablu, British 
Telecom, Budgetcom, Bulldog, Call 18866, Call2Call, Call Happy, 
Callserve, Callthrough.co.uk, Call Union, Care Telecom, Carphone 
Warehouse, CF1 Telecom, Cheapest Calls, Cheapest Chat, CherryCall, 
Clever Rates, Coms.Com, CountryCall, CytaUK, Demon, Direct Save 
Telecom, DrayTEL, Dial Around, DialWise, Discount Dial, Easy-Dial, 
Eclipse, Equitalk, Euphony, First National Telecom, 
First:Telecom, First Number, Focus 4U, FreeCall, FreedomCall,
Gem Telecom, GoTalk!, Gradwell, HIGHnet, ICUK, Intelligent Networks,
Jajah, Jersey Telecom, Joy Telecom, Just Phone, Kent Telephones, 
Kingston Comms, Lansdowne Telecom, Liquid Telecom, Lo-Call Telecom, 
Localphone, LycaTel, MCI WorldCom, MegaCalls, My Mondo, NetCalls4Less, 
Nildram, Nomi Dial, OneBill Telecom, Opal, Orange, PhoneBird, Phone 
Cheap, The Phone Co-Op, Pipex, 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, Sipgate, Skype, Sky Talk, Smallworld Media, 
Solwise, Story Telecom, SuperLine, Swiftcall, Swiftnet, 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, 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 tariff comparison also contains tables showing all non-geographic 
special tariff codes for mobiles, paging and information services, 
including operator, use, and tariff band, national and international 
dialling codes, access codes, and forthcoming code changes. 
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 123 in late May 2008 updates BT, 05pence (residential), 123 
Call (residential), 4tel Communications (business), Abroadcall 
(residential), Band Telecom (business), CF1 Telecom (business), Clever 
Rates (residential),   CherryCall (residential), Coms.Com (business and 
residential), CountryCall (residential), Demon (business), Easy-Dial 
(residential), Kingston Communications, and Virgin Media 
(residential).  21st-Century Telecom has disappeared and been removed. 
BillSmart, Business Communications, BWN Telecom, Cheers International, 
Connaught Telecom, Daisy Communications and EW Communications have been 
removed for old tariffs.

BT has added a new WiFi band and another directory enquiry band.  BT 
has increased the minimum call charge for BT Commitment option 1 to 
3.5p. Business Broadband Voice inland prices have been reduced to the 
same as BT Business Plan with £500 spend, so inland drops from 3.5p/min 
to 2.6p/min, capped at 5p.