TELECOM 247

UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v120, 29 Feb 2008

Comparisons of 161 residential and 95 business telephone tariff call
costs, and 202 residential and 115 business call plans charged by 158
different operators and resellers in the United Kingdom, compiled by
Magenta Systems Ltd.

05pence, 0844 Calls, 123Call, 18185.co.uk, 1899.com, 21st Century
Telecom, 4tel Communications, Abroadcall, AbroadTel, ACN, Adept
Telecom, Alpha Telecom, AOL, Auracall, Axis Telecom, Babble, Band
Telecom, Barablu, Beaming, BillSmart, British Telecom,
Budgetcom, Bulldog, Business Communications, BWN Telecom, Call 18866,
Call2Call, Call2Save, Callserve, Callthrough.co.uk, Call Union, Care
Telecom, 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, Localphone, LycaTel, MCI WorldCom, MegaCalls, My Mondo,
NetCalls4Less, Nildram, Nomi Dial, OneBill Telecom, Opal, Orange,
PhoneBird, Phone Cheap, The Phone Co-Op, Pipex, PlusNet,
Post Office, Primus, Qdial, Qualicom Aspire, Qudo, QX Telecom,
RateBuster, Resource Utilities, Saga Telephone Service, Sainsburys
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 tariff comparison also contains tables showing all non-geographic
special tariff codes for mobiles, paging and information services,
including operator, use, and tariff band, national and international
dialling codes, access codes, and forthcoming code changes.


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

http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/

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 120 in late February 2008 adds Localphone (residential),
Simply-Fone (business) and updates BT, ACN (residential), Carphone
Warehouse TalkTalk (residential), ICUK (business and residential),
Orange (residential), PlusNet Home Phone (residential), Simply-Fone
(residential), Sky Talk (residential), Britclick, Midas Telecom and
Planet Talk have been removed for old tariffs. Pipex Business is now
called Vialtus Solutions, the Pipex brand and residential customers
were taken over by Tiscali last year.

BT has added a 99th directory enquiry band, and 11th mobile band.

From 1st April 2008, BT is increasing basic residential line rental by
75p/month but increasing the paper-free discount by the same amount.
BT is renaming most of the residential packages and reducing the
monthly cost of BT Together 3 by Ł1.25/month. Evening calls will
again be charged per minute instead of being fixed for one hour.
Full details next month.

Ofcom has proposed a new area code 01987 for Ebbsfleet in Kent, where
up to 25,000 homes are being developed.