The 5p Talk Plan

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

Locally and nationally are not differentiated between, only geographic and non-geographic numbers.

Apart from the new 321 plan that has free "local" calls at the weekend...

[Chrysalis]

To me the 5p call plan looks a GREAT deal, since seeing the price changes I have already reccomended to 3 different sets of people I know to change over. My bill on 3-2-1 is usually approx £7-12 in phone calls with about 75% of it to mobiles so I expect a nice saving next month.

[scrotnig]

With most telco companies, not just ntl, their equivalant of the 5p plan (option 1 etc) etc is the best value plan for most ordinary users.

[HD462]

I've mentioned it to a few people at work today too. How long has this tariff been around, I hadn't heard of it until yesterday, you'd think ntl would inform customers of a better suited tariff, then again, that would earn them less money I guess.

For us, I'm hoping for a fair saving. With having kids on the phone to their mates / girlfriend on an evening it should make some savings for us. Currently my son on the phone to his girlfriend would cost 80p for a 40 min call (do all teenagers hog the phone...lol ) @ 2p a minute weekdays. One this new tariff that same call should cost just 5p.

We don't tend to make that many weekend calls, not enough to offset the potential saving during the week.

[altis]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

What exactly is a local call?

Would I have to call a number within the same Area Code as me for it to be considered local, or is this a geographical thing?

I seem to remember that, once upon a time, NTL and BT used the same definition of 'local'. If they still do then you can use this to find your local area:

http://www2.bt.com/btPortal/applicat...=uk_area_codes

[bob_builder]

I think NTL might have shot themselves in the foot with this latest price rise! When the 5p talk plan was £1 more expensive than 321, most people would not have changed to it "because it costs more" even though they would have probably been better off on it.

Now 321 has been made the same price, a lot of people will find they should change to the 5p plan and so NTL might actually lose money by charging everybody more!

[HD462]

Originally Posted by altis

I seem to remember that, once upon a time, NTL and BT used the same definition of 'local'. If they still do then you can use this to find your local area:

http://www2.bt.com/btPortal/applicat...=uk_area_codes

Yes, it's the same, I saw it somewhere on the ntl site last night when I was looking for info on the 5p tariff. It said local was calls within you own dialling code, and adjacent codes.

[paul11974]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

To me the 5p call plan looks a GREAT deal, since seeing the price changes I have already reccomended to 3 different sets of people I know to change over. My bill on 3-2-1 is usually approx £7-12 in phone calls with about 75% of it to mobiles so I expect a nice saving next month.

dont expect to much because i dont think it includes the mobile rates until the 1st of june 2005

[toots66]

Originally Posted by paul11974

dont expect to much because i dont think it includes the mobile rates until the 1st of june 2005

I believe it has the current 1p/min cheaper-than-321 mobile rates but the new ones from June 1st are significantly cheaper except for weekend calls to Orange, O2 and T-mobile which have gone up on the Talk Plan tariff, for some bizarre reason.

I just have this image of phoning someone up and them saying "Are you Local??"

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by paul11974

dont expect to much because i dont think it includes the mobile rates until the 1st of june 2005

Ahh ok thanks, but I will stick with it now anyway its only one more billing month between now and june.

[mfarmilo]

About the mobile calls. I noticed in the new pricelist that weekend calls to T-Mobile & O2 were actually dearer on a priceplan than on 3-2-1 (nearly twice as much in the case of T-Mobile). Customer Services confirmed this is the case when I called them. So if cheaper mobile calls are what you're after, that's definitely worth bearing in mind.

[Chrysalis]

Well weekend is only 2 days out of 7 so in the long run I think I will be saving money.

[paul11974]

Originally Posted by mfarmilo

About the mobile calls. I noticed in the new pricelist that weekend calls to T-Mobile & O2 were actually dearer on a priceplan than on 3-2-1 (nearly twice as much in the case of T-Mobile). Customer Services confirmed this is the case when I called them. So if cheaper mobile calls are what you're after, that's definitely worth bearing in mind.

is VIRGIN 02 ?

[HD462]

Nope, Virgin is a virtual network running on T Mobile, I used to be on there until recently. Left T Mobile, for Virgin as Virgin were cheaper, even though using the same network...lol

I believe Tescos virtual network runs on o2.