Cheapest phone provider

[mamhaf]

We seem to be spending more than we need on our home phone and I'd be interested to know what deal/company other mners have chose?

We currently have the line rental from BT - I need to keep this because my company provides our broadband so I can work from home from time-to-time.

And then we're with TalkTalk. That gives free evening landline calls, but charges for calls to mobiles.

Our dds frequently call mobile numbers though - including mine and dh's when they get home from school, so our average monthly bill is £22 with TalkTalk, and then £10.50 a month line rental with BT - a total of around £32.50 a month on average.

Does that sound like a lot? Are there any landline contracts which include some calls to mobiles at cheaper or reduced rates?

TIA

That sounds cheap!

I pay £30 per month from utilities warehouse for broadband, line rental and some calls. (We live in the sticks, so apparently can only get expensive broadband
On top of that add mobile and daytime calls, plus a 10% fine surcharge for not setting up a DD and then VAT, and we pay £60-£70 per month!

I think I'm being had!

Wow, that does sound expensive crankytwanky.

We get free landline calls all the time by the way, not just evenings as I put in my OP.

Dh has seen an offer somewhere that gives cheaper calls to mobiles if you dial a prefix, which we could put as a preset on the main house phone...but he was the one asking me to post here to see if other people had other ideas.

Yes, we use a call router where we dial in the prefix 18866. I'm pretty sure they're cheaper than standard phone providers. We pay £10.50 line rental, £10 for broadband and free evening and weekend calls then about £5-6 via 18866 for daytime and mobile calls. We're very much in the sticks too btw.

Thanks Daisy - we'll look into that. It would be a PITA to have to dial in the prefix every time, so we'll have to make sure it's put into every phone in the house as a preset.

I have BT landline and free eve and weekend clls with them - this costs $14.50 per month. Then I have a mobile with virgin and I can pay £10 and get 200 mins and 200 text, or I pay £15 per month and get 300 txt and 300 mins or you can pay £20 and so on. Thing is your not tied in or on a contract - you can drop it when you want - so if you are away in the summer you dont pay for it for that month.

i have only ever used the £15 per month and this we use for all mobile calls and use the call timer to check usage - I havn't gone over the 5 hours yet. I dont use the house phone for calls at all - my dd does sometimes after 6pm and to house numbers only. She uses the mobile to call other mobiles.

Could you just use an old unlocked mobile and get a libery sim for £ 5 from virgin and then get your dd to use this phone to all any mobiles and just get £10 per month to cover the calls?

TBH we struggle to use the minutes up some months but it would be different with teenagers