Quote:BT? what does that mean ?
That's British Telecom which provides payphones in the street. BT was the public utility which ran the phones here in the UK and is now privatised.
Quote:So basically what your saying is that it will cost her a fortune to call me from her home phone ?
No, I don't know what it will cost her. Get her to check.
Quote:I pay £0.155 pr. minutte.
A friend of mine said that she could use one of those cheaper companies, something about dialing a number before dialing mine and she would get it for 1p pr. min. is that possible when she has keycom ?
I can't say for definate, but I maybe that's from a normal landline, probably a BT one. The phones in the rooms in the halls are provided by KeyCom, so she would have to find out what rates they charge.
The thing is that some of these services you mention use 0844 numbers (and other 08 non-geographical numbers). The problem with these numbers is that only BT must provide access to them at a particular rate from a normal landline, and the rate quoted is usually the BT one. It is often [more] expensive to call such numbers from other providers, although it's best to check.
I imagine that KeyCom would be quite happy to charge an arm and a leg to call these numbers as they effectively have a monopoly in the university. That is the reason they can get away with rip-off 0870 in the first place.