Phone Lines and Low Price Calls

Today you have a bigger choice than ever for your phone lines and phone calls. If you opt for a landline, most of the time it is still a BT group company providing the line, but the calls go via a number of networks. More and more companies are opting to have their lines delivered across the Internet as it’s a cheaper if slightly less reliable service.

Line Installation and Rental

As long as you are not trapped in a fixed term agreement or with cable you can change the people you get your line and pay your line rental too, as well as having a different carrier(s) for the calls. This means in addition to saving a lot of money, when you have a fault you can call someone who understands your problem not just someone reading a screen.

	BT Standard Rates	Low Cost Landline	Low Cost IP Service
Set-Up	£106.37 per line	£67.20 per line	£10.00 per single number ported
Rental	£15.80 per month	£12.50 per month	£4.00 per month

Low Cost Calls

Call Charges used to be just pence per minute, easy to understand. Easy to find the best deal, now there are bundled offerings, capped prices, minimum call charges and connection fees. So before you do anything you need to see where you call and how long the calls, lots, often the non-itemised ones are 30 seconds or less as the person wasn’t there. Here you pay minimum call charges and connection fees making those 30 seconds the most expensive per minute call you will make, and you will make a lot of them. It’s similar with bundled call, just as with your mobile you don’t use the full bundle and you pay more than if you had just paid for what you used.

	BT Standard Rates	Low Cost Landline	Low Cost IP Service
UK Calls
"Other" Charges	10p Connection Charge	1.00p Minimum	1.00p Mininum
National	9.0p /min	1.0p /min	0.8p /min
Local	9.0p /min	1.0p /min	0.8p /min
Mobile	10.6p-22.2p /min	8.0p /min	5.8p /min
International
W. Europe	45.0p /min	3.3p /min	1.9p /min
USA	40.0p /min	2.4p /min	1.9p /min
India	90.0p /min	16.1p /min	15.9p /min