farci wrote on Dec 4
th, 2005 at 5:03am:
Can you help further - I could not locate this on the Primus website? Thanks
Its Primus Planet Talk's Saver Option 2 which you can find here on the
www.uswitch.com home phones website area:-
www.uswitch.com/directory/home-phone/provider-742-primus-planet-talk.htmlUnfortunately since the website manager for Planet Talk Primus is clearly a total imbecile who has no idea what customers are looking for you cannot find details of this product or its rates on their own website. However if you go to
www.uswitch.com select Home Phone then select your Postcode and then tell them you make 4 calls a day all at the Evening and Weekend and that they are National Calls (also that you don't make mobile or international calls) then the Primus Planet Talk option will be listed as will Just-Dial Saver. The main snag with Just-Dial is that it is part of Onetel/Centrica and so up for sale. Chances are Tele2 or TalkTalk will buy it and you will lose the free weekday evening calls. So Primus Planet Talk seems a better long term bet. You will also see a listing for a TalkTalk line rental deal but this is a con as you don't get the cash back until after your first full year and have to remember to claim it. Also TalkTalk will bar you from using services like 1899 and 18185 because you switch your whole line rental to them, which allows them to impose such bars. Also TalkTalk don't provide free Caller Display so if you need this their line rental is actually more expensive than BT's.
Planet Talk Primus might sell a lot more of this product if their own website actually marketed it properly.
Actually I just checked
www.just-dial.com and I see they are doing calls to uk mobiles for 1p per minute in the evening and 0.75p per minute at the weekend (as well as free evening and weekend 01/02 calls) so perhaps this is a better bet and at least their own website is selling the service. If they are eventually taken over by another company (when Centrical sells them) I suppose whoever takes them over would be foolish to start charging a more expensive tariff if they want to keep these customers. But there again many companies do often act foolishly in commercial terms.
See
www.just-dial.com/pages/plans_saver_lite.aspI notice that if I actually pick a mobile phone company with Just-Dial they show a much higher rate than 1p and 0.75p per minute in the evening and at the weekend! Something wrong somewhere and no phone number to call to challenge them on any of this. I wonder what happens if one phones Onetel, who are owned by the same company, to ask the question?