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m419 · 06-06-2010, 10:10

Look I dunno why people keep bringing up that BT is better because 0845 and 0870 calls are inclusive.

Have you seen how much they charge for line rental, its more than Virgin Media's even with the free calls to Virgin Mobiles.

And like I said before, 0845 and 0870 numbers are disappearing and businesses are migrating to 0843,0844,0871,0872 and 0873 numbers in some cases 090 numbers to continue getting revenue share. This is just to win back customers. All phone companies will begin to offer cheap or inclusive calls to such numbers eventually.

BT will always make up for there losses and this includes:

1471+3 charging 12p everytime you press 3
Call Connection fee of just over 9p for all chargeable calls
Charging £2.59 for a calling feature
Charging £4 per month for Anonymous Caller Rejection

And when you compare Virgin Media's Talk Weekends plan with BT's offering. You are actually spending more with BT, especially if you have Virgin TV and/or broadband, taking all 3 services from Virgin will save you a packet in the long run and make up for the 0845 and 0870 calls.

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m419 Inactive Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Services: BT Broadband,BT Anytime calls,Sky entertainment extra HD,Vodafone pay monthly Posts: 1,512	Re: 08 numbers Look I dunno why people keep bringing up that BT is better because 0845 and 0870 calls are inclusive. Have you seen how much they charge for line rental, its more than Virgin Media's even with the free calls to Virgin Mobiles. And like I said before, 0845 and 0870 numbers are disappearing and businesses are migrating to 0843,0844,0871,0872 and 0873 numbers in some cases 090 numbers to continue getting revenue share. This is just to win back customers. All phone companies will begin to offer cheap or inclusive calls to such numbers eventually. BT will always make up for there losses and this includes: 1471+3 charging 12p everytime you press 3 Call Connection fee of just over 9p for all chargeable calls Charging £2.59 for a calling feature Charging £4 per month for Anonymous Caller Rejection And when you compare Virgin Media's Talk Weekends plan with BT's offering. You are actually spending more with BT, especially if you have Virgin TV and/or broadband, taking all 3 services from Virgin will save you a packet in the long run and make up for the 0845 and 0870 calls.