Just noticed posting by Heinz on MSE site.

Finerea have reacted to Cleverates 1p a minute promo. By offering calls to mobiles at  1p a minute on their www.discountdial.co.uk brand. 0844 861 64 64.

You just dial the the number normally using this method. You can also dial 07744 numbers!!!!

bigjohn wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2006 at 9:53am:

Just noticed posting by Heinz on MSE site. Finerea have reacted to Cleverates 1p a minute promo. By offering calls to mobiles at  1p a minute on their www.discountdial.co.uk brand. 0844 861 64 64. You just dial the the number normally using this method. You can also dial 07744 numbers!!!!

Thanks for the info - can you clarify?

Are these charges subject to my phone provider's minimum charge? Do I have to prefix 1280 to avoid my CPS to benefit?

farci wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2006 at 7:28pm:

bigjohn wrote on Jan 3rd, 2006 at 9:53am: Just noticed posting by Heinz on MSE site. Finerea have reacted to Cleverates 1p a minute promo. By offering calls to mobiles at  1p a minute on their www.discountdial.co.uk brand. 0844 861 64 64. You just dial the the number normally using this method. You can also dial 07744 numbers!!!! Thanks for the info - can you clarify? Are these charges subject to my phone provider's minimum charge? Do I have to prefix 1280 to avoid my CPS to benefit?

Yes a minimum call charge would apply,so if you did not get through/got out of range/hit voicemail you would pay approx 5p.
Most suppliers charge the same as Bt to call 0844 numbers. Unless you are on OneTel who charge 10% more then BT.So its not normally necessary to use 1280.

bigjohn wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2006 at 9:53am:

Just noticed posting by Heinz on MSE site. Finerea have reacted to Cleverates 1p a minute promo. By offering calls to mobiles at  1p a minute on their www.discountdial.co.uk brand. 0844 861 64 64.

Discount Dial charge 25p per minute to a Spanish mobile whereas Finarea's www.dialaround.co.uk offers the cheapest rates in the industry at 9p per minute.

The business logic of Finarea seems to be hook the customer on one rate for that brand while over charging them on other rates that another of their brands offers more cheaply.

used it on saturday had echo but I was able make call

trevormc wrote on Jan 25^th, 2006 at 10:02am:

used it on saturday had echo but I was able make call

Surely this mobile rate can't be sustainable in the long run?  But they have been running it for a while now so must have picked up rather a lot of callers.

Used it for a call to Thailand.  Very good line.  Haven't used it for UK mobile yet but great rate at 2p so I will be trying it.
Number on their site for UK (land & mobile) is 0844 462 2323

PeterAde wrote on Feb 7^th, 2006 at 12:01pm:

Haven't used it for UK mobile yet but great rate at 2p so I will be trying it. Number on their site for UK (land & mobile) is 0844 462 2323

I've used it at least 3 times in last couple of days for UK mobiles - no problems at all.  :)
Slight down-side of course is that any call under 2½ minutes still costs 5p BT minimum.
But I haven't seen a cheaper current rate even allowing for that.   :)

Does anyone know with Direct Dial to UK mobiles ... do you have to dial 00 44 973 *** *** or can you just dial 07973 *** ***   I've tried asking them and they say full international but I've heard you don't need to.
Thanks

PeterAde wrote on Feb 7^th, 2006 at 3:04pm:

Does anyone know with Direct Dial to UK mobiles ... do you have to dial 00 44 973 *** *** or can you just dial 07973 *** ***   I've tried asking them and they say full international but I've heard you don't need to. Thanks

07973 ****** is what you dial.   The 00 44 business was only with the cheap Abroadtel mobile deal run by Callax who only have a single European calling platform.

All Finarea's call brands like discuntdial are fully adjusted to domestic uk dialling conventions.

wrote on Feb 7^th, 2006 at 5:44pm:

PeterAde wrote on Feb 7th, 2006 at 3:04pm: Does anyone know with Direct Dial to UK mobiles ... do you have to dial 00 44 973 *** *** or can you just dial 07973 *** ***   I've tried asking them and they say full international but I've heard you don't need to. Thanks 07973 ****** is what you dial.   The 00 44 business was only with the cheap Abroadtel mobile deal run by Callax who only have a single European calling platform. All Finarea's call brands like discuntdial are fully adjusted to domestic uk dialling conventions.

I can confirm what NGM says about not needing to dial international codes for Discount Dial - as I mentioned above, I've used it successfully just dialling the normal UK format.  I think you can dial straight through as, without waiting for their announcements:

0844 xxx xxxx 07xxx xxxxxx # - NOTE THE # AT THE END.

My experience was also that you had to use the full international code 00 44 7xx with CleveRates as well during their temporary 1p deal.

trevord wrote on Feb 7^th, 2006 at 7:23pm:

My experience was also that you had to use the full international code 00 44 7xx with CleveRates as well during their temporary 1p deal.

That's because www.cleverates.co.uk is just another brand of Callax who also run Abroadtel.  Therefore you were calling the same calling platform as the cheap Abroadtel mobile deal.  You can check out who owns what website at www.internic.co.uk although some companies use intermediaries that disguise the real underlying website registrant.  Callax always seem to be registered for all their websites directly while Finarea are for some variants of their website names and not for others.

PeterAde wrote on Feb 7^th, 2006 at 12:01pm:

Used it for a call to Thailand.  Very good line.  Haven't used it for UK mobile yet but great rate at 2p so I will be trying it. Number on their site for UK (land & mobile) is 0844 462 2323

Yes thats the new 0844 number, the service having gone up from 1p to 2p a minute.

bigjohn wrote on Feb 7^th, 2006 at 11:03pm:

Yes thats the new 0844 number, the service having gone up from 1p to 2p a minute.

A 100% increase.  Outrageous. :o

But then again they are over 60% cheaper than the next cheapest alternative for mobiles in the weekday daytime.  And that next cheapest alternative just happens to be another of their own brands (www.18185.co.uk)

Yeah, well, 08644 462 2323 is now charging my minimum BT Call Charge (5p) to tout it's 0844 428 8585 @4p/min. FOR uk mOBILES  whilst Snifty List seems to be drawinn a blANK ON uk mOBILES .    IS 4P / MIN the current STATE of THE art on UK mobiles ?


Hey, Big John (Ex.) , how about reflecting this in the title to this thread , rather than the outdated headline grabbing 1p/min.    Many Thanks,  Joe.

joe65 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2006 at 8:33pm:

IS 4P / MIN the current STATE of THE art on UK mobiles ?

Well, if you're "too darn lazy" to read the threads ...

joe65 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2006 at 8:39pm:

I'm tooo darn lazy to search for it.

... then I'm too darn lazy to tell you the answer!   :-X

Awh come on.  I don't know what to search on .  

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