UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v124, 30 June 2008

Comparisons of 147 residential and 82 business telephone tariff call 
costs, and 197 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, Andrews & Arnold, 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, GoTalk!, Gradwell,
HIGHnet, ICUK, Jajah, Jersey Telecom, Joy Telecom, Just Phone, Kent
Telephones, Kingston Comms, Lansdowne Telecom, Liquid Telecom, Lo-Call
Telecom, Localphone, LycaTel, Maxtalk, 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 124 in late June 2008 adds Andrews & Arnold (business and
residential), Maxtalk (business and residential), and Primus 
(residential) and updates BT, FreedomCall (residential), ICUK (business 
and residential), Jajah (residential), Jersey Telecom (residential), 
Just Phone (residential), Kent Telephones (business),Sainsbury's 
(residential) and Voipfone (residential). Gem Telecom has disappeared 
and been removed. Intelligent Networks (aka CPS Connections) has been 
removed for old tariffs. 

BT has added another new WiFi band and two more directory enquiry
bands, so there are now 104 different price bands. 
BT is increasing the residential call connection cost from 6p to 7p,
from 16th September 2008.

Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd  wrote 

> BT is increasing the residential call connection cost from 6p to 7p,
> from 16th September 2008. 

Thanks

Note (source BT Update dated July '08) that the call connection cost
(Call Set-up Fee) for LUS (Light User Scheme), BT Fusion, In-Contact
Plus and BT Basic remains at 3p. 

(The tariff comparisons do not contain information for legacy tariffs
such as LUS).

Also :-

Caller Return (1471+3 and 1571+0) increases from 7.5p to 10p.
Ring Back when free from 15p to 30p,
Reminder (alarm clock) from 20p to 30p
3 Way Calling from 50p to 60p

(Unlimited usage by feature rental at £1.75/mo for one or £3.50/mo for
2 to 4.)

-- 
Mike D