UK Telecom Tariff Comparisons at http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/ - October 2007 Update

Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd

UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v117, 31 Oct 2007

Comparisons of 159 residential and 94 business telephone tariff call
costs, and 202 residential and 114 business call plans charged by 155
different operators and resellers in the United Kingdom, compiled by
Magenta Systems Ltd.

0844 Calls, 123Call, 18185.co.uk, 1899.com, 21st Century Telecom,
4tel Communications, AbroadTel, ACN, Adept Telecom, Alpha Telecom,
AOL, Auracall, Axis Telecom, Babble, Band Telecom, Barablu, Beaming,
BillSmart, Britclick, British Telecom, Budgetcom, Bulldog, Business
Communications, BWN Telecom, Call 18866, Call2Call, Call2Save,
Callserve, Callthrough.co.uk, Call Union, Carphone Warehouse, CF1
Telecom, Cheapest Calls, Cheapest Chat, Cheers International,
CherryCall, Clever Rates, Coms.Com, Connaught, CountryCall, CytaUK,
Daisy Communications, Demon, Direct Save Telecom, DrayTEL, Dial
Around, DialWise, Discount Dial, Easy-Dial, Eclipse, Equitalk,
Euphony, EW Communications, eZe-Talk, First National Telecom,
First:Telecom, First Number, Focus 4U, FreeCall, FreedomCall,
Gem Telecom, GoTalk!, Gradwell, HIGHnet, ICUK, Intelligent Networks,
Internet Telecom, Jajah, Jersey Telecom, Joy Telecom, Just Phone, Kent
Telephones, Kingston Comms, Lansdowne Telecom, Liquid Telecom, Lo-Call
Telecom, LycaTel, MCI WorldCom, MegaCalls, Midas Telecom, My Mondo,
NetCalls4Less, Nildram, Nomi Dial, OneBill Telecom, Opal, Orange,
PhoneBird, Phone Cheap, The Phone Co-Op, Pipex, Planet Talk, PlusNet,
Post Office, Primus, Qdial, Qualicom Aspire, Qudo, QX Telecom,
RateBuster, Resource Utilities, Saga Telephone Service,
Sainsbury's Telecom, SchoolTel, Scottish & Southern Energy,
Simply-Fone, Sip2Go, Sipgate, Skype, Sky Talk, Smallworld Media,
Solwise, Story Telecom, SuperLine, Swiftcall, Swiftnet, Switch Telecom,
Talkcheaper.net, Telappliant, Telecom Plus, Telediscount,
Telesave, Telesavers, Telestunt, TeleTop, Telstra, Tesco Talk, Tiscali,
Topup2Talk, TopUpNow, Toucan, UKCall, Unicom, Universal Telecom,
Uniworld, Vectone, Ventelo, Virgin Media (ntl:Telewest), Vodafone,
Voice Trading, Voicenet, VoIP-4U, VoIPCheap, Voipfone, Vonage, WebCall
Direct, Welcome Telecom, Work-Phones, XFone, XLN Telecom, Yellow
Telecoms, Yourcalls.net, Your Communications, Your Connection, and
Zen Internet.

The full tariff comparison may also be viewed on-line at:



Please note the full range of tariff information is only available to
paid members. Non-members may still view residential tariffs on the web
site, but only members can view business tariffs and download the
original spreadsheets and Acrobat (PDF) files.

Full membership details are on the web site.

Version 117 in late October 2007 updates BT, 0844 Calls (residential),
18185.co.uk (residential), 1899.com (residential), Budgetcom
(residential), Cheapest Calls (residential), Cheapest Chat
(residential), Dial Around (residential), DialWise (residential),
Discount Dial (residential), FreeCall (residential), Focus 4U
(business), ICUK (business and residential), Kingston Communications,
PlusNet Home Phone (residential), Phone Cheap (residential), Telesavers
(residential), TeleTop (residential), TopUp2Talk (residential),
TopUpNow (residential), Virgin Media (residential), Voice Trading
(business), VoIP-4U (business and residential), WebCall Direct
(residential). Ecomtel has ceased operation in the UK and has been
removed. ICUK is now using it's own name instead of the Red Telecom
brand.

BT has increased analogue and ISDN business line rentals from 1st
November 2007. There are now 95 different directory enquiry tariff
bands.

Virgin Media has reduced it's unlimited packages (again) to the same
price as BT, increased it's inland call cost to 3.25p/min the same as
BT, removed weekend rate for mobile and 0845 calls, and increased it's
call connection cost to 7p to keep it higher than BT.

royc

I find it easy to use

and its free

roy

Lemmo

On Thu 01 Nov 2007 14:00:09, royc <> wrote:

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> I find it easy to use
>
> and its free
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> roy
>

Nice website. Lots of info there even if it is cluttered.

Michael R N Dolbear

Lemmo <> wrote

> On Thu 01 Nov 2007 14:00:09, royc <> wrote:
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> >
> > I find it easy to use
> >
> > and it's free

> Nice website. Lots of info there even if it is cluttered.

Is the LUS (Light User Scheme) still available for new supply {deleted
from the magsys pages} ?

Last I heard was :-

"Ofcom indicated that the existing schemes {LUS, In Contact} will not
be withdrawn until 600 000 customers are using the new scheme {BT
Basic}"

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Mike D