NGMsGhost wrote on Sep 20
th, 2009 at 11:54am:
derrick wrote on Sep 20
th, 2009 at 11:37am:
They are not "free", they are inclusive, to receive them included you need to pay the line rental, therefore NOT "free"!
Free = at no cost, exempt from charge etc.
Derrick,
I am only too well aware the calls are not genuinely free as P O Homephone's line rental is about £1.75 more than some of the cheapest companies in the marketplace but all those companies have a 12 month minimum contract term that I refuse to be enslaved by (I may either move from here or let out my place within the next 12 months). Also the Post Office's best cheap deal in an area like this with no cheap LLU providers is on its combined phone and broadband package where for only £8.75 extra on top of the line rental you can have basic broadband with a 5Gb per month allowance. However I have not gone for the latter (a) because it has a 12 month minimum contract and (b) because P O Homephone broadband has a reputation for shocking quality with speeds falling to near nil at peak times.
Nonetheless the free mobile call thing at the weekend is worth quite a lot as there are a couple of people I know who are only contactable by mobile and a 60 minute call at 5p per minute is worth £3. The free evening and weekend 0845 call thing is far less valuable because the vast majority of the 0845 numbers for which no geographic alternative can be found have closed their doors to the public at 5pm or 5.30pm before the 0845 calls become free at 6pm.............
I still am at a loss to understand why P O Homephone do not also have an Anytime calls plan add on option given that everyone else in the marketplace does.
They are NOT free at all!
My gripe is people, (including the telcos), calling them free when they are not!
If they where free you would not need to pay a line rental, so stop the use of free and use the correct word "inclusive"
NGMsGhost wrote on Sep 20
th, 2009 at 12:16pm:
Coming back to the original topic of this thread I am rather disappointed by the high percentage of you who still seem to have your phone line with BT.
I am still with BT for line rental, because to change to practically anywhere else, as I have CPS and BB with Virgin, would cost me more than the £21.24 I pay in total for line rental, BB and CPS with inclusive, (not free), weekend and evening calls, because Virgin said if I moved to PO Home phone for my line rental and calls, that would mean I would no longer be on a bundle and my BB would cost me £18. per month.
I looked at moving to the Tiscali re this offer, (option 2); -
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/talk/index-talk.html?code=ZZ-NL-12WU&srccode=C... this would only save £1.25 per month after the initial 3 months offer, but am unsure about Tiscali's service, as I believe they had/have a lot of issues.