Originally Posted by mjw123 (Post 34894629)

Guys,

I've only recently move to Virgin from Pipex and in the main am happy with the service however the phone charges are disgraceful. I simply cannot believe how high they are.

We rarely use the phone and try and make evening calls but it seems to make no odds, with pipex we'd struggle to make £10 worth of calls each month, now with Virgin it's nearer £25 a month for the same type of calls :shocked:. Can anything be done, do they not offer any free calls or friends and family ?

All of a sudden the reasonable TV / Broadband deal is no longer so by their rip off phone call costs.

Are any of those prefix numbers worth a Try if Virgin themselves won't reduce the costs ?

tia,
MJW

Originally Posted by mjw123 (Post 34894629)

Guys,

I've only recently move to Virgin from Pipex and in the main am happy with the service however the phone charges are disgraceful. I simply cannot believe how high they are.

We rarely use the phone and try and make evening calls but it seems to make no odds, with pipex we'd struggle to make £10 worth of calls each month, now with Virgin it's nearer £25 a month for the same type of calls :shocked:. Can anything be done, do they not offer any free calls or friends and family ?

All of a sudden the reasonable TV / Broadband deal is no longer so by their rip off phone call costs.

It is an attempt to move people off the Standard phone tariff(Free weekends plan/M Phone package) and encourage people to move on to Talk Evening and weekends,Talk unlimited and Talk Anywhere.

If you are calling mobiles,0845 and 0870 numbers regularly but not excessively then Talk Anywhere is for you.

For £20 per which is including telephone line rental(£11) Virgin Media can give you 200 minutes of talktime to call UK landlines, UK mobiles,International mobiles and landlines as well as 0845 and 0870 numbers.

If you don't use up your minutes, they roll over to the next month.

So this plan is similar to mobile phone tariffs. So by being on Talk Anywhere 200, it is the equivalent of paying 4p per minute, thats quite good if you are calling mobiles.

So £11 line rental plus Talk Anywhere(£9) means your phone costs including line rental won't be over £20.

0500 and 0800 numbers remain free.

Are any of those prefix numbers worth a Try if Virgin themselves won't reduce the costs ?

tia,
MJW

Originally Posted by mjw123 (Post 34894781)

Thanks - the near £25 is just for calls so phone rental and calls=£36 per month which is a farce.

That talkanywhere for £9 seems interesting, is that likely to be chepaer than the 1899 prefix ?

TIA
Mike.

Originally Posted by mjw123 (Post 34894789)

Mainly local with a few mobile calls and the odd short call to Oz - try to avoid 0845 from home.

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 34894819)

I've just moved to http://www.firsttelecom.com/ as they specialise in cable phonelines.

I was with Onetel for years but their rates (and connection charge) just got silly.

Both use a box you put in series with your normal telephone line... no extra numbers to dial, etc... and you only pay for what you use after you used it.

My monthly bill used to around £4... the same calls will now cost around £2...

Originally Posted by nodrogd (Post 34894880)

This only works with a BT line, it won't work on VM.

From their website Q & A:

Can anyone register?

Yes - so long as you have a BT telephone line. If you have call barring with BT or are on their Light User Scheme please ask BT to change your service to 'standard line rental' before you register with first:telecom (call BT on 150 to do this) or alternatively switch your line rental to us and just receive the one bill.

Originally Posted by mjw123 (Post 34894789)

Mainly local with a few mobile calls and the odd short call to Oz - try to avoid 0845 from home.

Originally Posted by bonzoe (Post 34894883)

Look again, there is a Cable saver plan for VM users.

http://www.firsttelecom.com/resident...monthly-CS.htm