jackdaww wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:jackdaww wrote:.
even more importantly , such calls are charged at my mobile provider rates - circa 4p/min .
my landline call rates are circa 12p/min .
a very handy saving .
Those figures look extremely high by today's standards.
I pay less than 1p/min, for instance.
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is that from a mobile or landline/broadband provider please ?
For mobile calls, the cheapest to make phone calls is 1p Mobile (
https://www.1pmobile.com/) where calls cost 1p per minute (as do texts and each MB of data), and they use the EE network. The catch is that you need to top up with £10 every 4 months otherwise the line is disconnected. So that works out as £30 a year minimum cost, or £2.50 a month which would buy you just over 4 hours of calls a month if you didn't use any texts or data.
For those needing more, then ASDA Mobile (
https://mobile.asda.com/pay-as-you-go) sells bundles of unlimited minutes, unlimited texts and 3GB data per month for £5, and they use the Vodafone network.
Both 1p Mobile and ASDA Mobile support WiFi calling (assuming your phone offers it - most recent mobiles do).
Given calls made using BT cost 20.9p per minute if you don't have any 'free' minutes as part of the calling plan, and a 700 minute calling plan will cost £7.31 a month and unlimited calls £12.54, then it is frankly obscene the profit BT (and Virgin and Sky and all the others) is making from mainly elderly customers who tend to use landlines rather than mobiles.