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dimanuel Newbie Offline Posts: 4	Cheapest way to call! Jan 10^th, 2005 at 12:12pm http://www.telecompare.co.uk its updated and compares all Simply Dial providers in a clear view. Have fun!
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joe Newbie Offline Posts: 7	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #1 - Jan 10^th, 2005 at 3:11pm Please stop giving this site cheap publicity . It is rubbish
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bill

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Cheapest way to call - NOT!
Reply #2 - Jan 10^th, 2005 at 4:05pm

And, to test that 'rubbish' statement, I asked it to direct me to the cheapest way to call a USA landline.

Incredibly, it came back with:

Tiscali SimplyDial - 3.95p/min. - Mon to Fri 6pm - 8am via 0870 xxx xxxx
7.91p/min. - Mon to Fri 8am - 6pm - via 0870 xxx xxxx
10p/min. - Fri midnight to Sun midnight - via 0871 xxx xxxx - most expensive at weekends!

Somehow, it overlooks:

Budgetcom - an 0845 number
1899 - 0.50p/min
Telestunt 1p/min
Ratebuster 1p/min
Telesavers 1p/min
CheapestCalls 1p/min
Telediscount 2p/min
call18866 2p/min
Onetel 3p/min
Simply-Fone 3p/min

So, on a scale of 1 to 10, telecompare scores a minus 187, IMHO.

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pannsoln Newbie Offline Posts: 3 Gender:	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #3 - Jan 25^th, 2005 at 2:09pm On the other hand, it did alert me to another country I often dial (Zimbabwe) for only 1p/min. So it's not all bad!
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bill Ex Member	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #4 - Jan 25^th, 2005 at 9:12pm Quote: On the other hand, it did alert me to another country I often dial (Zimbabwe) for only 1p/min. As would the completely free and unbiased moneysavingexpert.com callchecker have done.
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pannsoln Newbie Offline Posts: 3 Gender:	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #5 - Jan 26^th, 2005 at 6:48pm Thank you, Bill, I've added that to my Favourites!
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dimanuel Newbie Offline Posts: 4	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #6 - Jan 28^th, 2005 at 11:50am Well is there something wrong with my eyes all the simply dial providers are presented. I love the clear view of the website cheapest on top! http://www.telecompare.co.uk
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Tanllan Supreme Member Offline Posts: 797 Gender:	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #7 - Jan 28^th, 2005 at 12:09pm So how is 3p per minute the cheapest cost to call a UK landline number?
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bill

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Re: Cheapest way to call!
Reply #8 - Jan 28^th, 2005 at 2:08pm

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So how is 3p per minute the cheapest cost to call a UK landline number?

To be fair, although that site's best price for what they call 'UK - National' calls is 3p/minute, they also (strangely) show rates to 'UK' numbers - where 3 dial-through firms offering 1p/minute UK calls are listed and another for 'UK - London' calls (where 2p/minute is the cheapest they offer).

It ignores the 0p/minute available from 1899 and 18866 though.

In summary, a very confused site where you'd do well to find lower call rates than you can find elsewhere.

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andy9 Supreme Member Offline Posts: 505	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #9 - Jan 29^th, 2005 at 12:46pm To quote them - On this independent website you can objectively compare rates of 10 telecom providers. That's not enough detail if it omits call rates of 1p/min in favour of 3p or 4p
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andy9 Supreme Member Offline Posts: 505	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #10 - Jan 29^th, 2005 at 12:53pm Now I apologise; it compares more and shows the best 10 But try searching Belgium - Brussel (which I did, and thought it was useless), then Belgium - Brussels, then Belgium. 3, 4, 1 3 different results. I've got 3 different ways of calling from my mobile incl minutes at the moment
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andy9 Supreme Member Offline Posts: 505	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #11 - Jan 29^th, 2005 at 12:59pm Same sort of thing happens with UK;UK - London; UK - National If you search UK - Orange you get different results if you change the landline/mobile box
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NonGeographicalMan

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Reply #12 - Feb 27^th, 2005 at 5:02pm

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In summary, a very confused site where you'd do well to find lower call rates than you can find elsewhere.

The most reliable and accurate place to find the current cheapest uk call provider is here:-

www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/

Although it does of course require rather more work on your part to tour through the 14 different sets of tables

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pannsoln Newbie Offline Posts: 3 Gender:	Re: Cheapest way to call! Reply #13 - Feb 28^th, 2005 at 4:11pm Quote: The most reliable and accurate place to find the current cheapest uk call provider is here:- www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/ Hmm... I looked at this site for my usual destinations, and found too many errors. I will stick with http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/callchecker/
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