Does anyone here have their landline with BT

[meriad]

I am absolutely shocked... obviously I'm usually at work and would make calls either using the work phone or my mobile; but today I recevied my BT phone bill.... I cannot believe that it's cheaper for me to call my family in Germany than it is to call my neighbour on her landline

A 21 minute call to my sister in Germany cost me £1.32 but a 16 minute call to my neighbour was £2.79. Crumbs.... I always thought local calls were meant to be cheap, they're anything but.... so lesson learned; anything local use the mobile and anything international use wifi calls or the landline

Dare I say - I'm a tad annoyed; really didn't think it was that expensive to make calls (but probably more annoyed at my own ignorance)

[TheOstrich]

We have BT landline and broadband, Meriad - I guess it all depends on what contract you have with them. Our contract is for free calls at weekends (and then no call can be longer than an hour), but calls are chargeable at all other times, so we rarely use it. We use our mobiles for all outgoing calls, and the BT landline is basically for all incoming calls.

[meriad]

Thanks Ossie, it's obviously something that I had not considered as I normally am never home 'during' hours... oh well - (expensive) lesson learned

[Workingman]

I am with Vodafone and my experience is the same. Make a few landline calls and the phone and broadband bill goes through the roof. So, I am like you, Ria and Ossie, outbound is via mobile and some inbound are by landline.

[saundra]

I'm with post office for broadband and phone it started of cheahp with some free calls I paid my bill this week it was £113 with only £7-00on it phone calls it's a right rip of they all are I use messanger for everyone

[JoM]

We're with Sky and when I renegotiated our contract with them last Autumn I got their free calls anytime package, their Superfast fibre broadband and the line rental for £35 per month. I find that I get my money's worth with the calls package (which includes call to mobiles) because we're in an area with a really poor mobile signal and quite often we can't get a signal in the house (we're on four different networks and all have problems).

[cruiser2]

We are with BT for broadband and anytime phone calls.
Last bill was £44.00. Mrs.e will use the landline for calls to friends during the day. Some can be over 30 minutes.
Had a problem with Bt and they came and fitted a new master socket so I do not need splitters in each phone socket. Did not have to pay as the fault was outside the house
We have a smart phone with Tesco. Pay £7.50 a month. Use it if other people have mobiles. Never use the monthly allowance.

Am thinking of changing to Virgin to get faster broadband and their TV package.

[Suff]

My daughter is with BT, we are with Orange France, not really much else of an option as you take a significant hit in performance if you don't go with Orange (France Telecom).

I have a slightly esoteric setup. For me I have a personal Vodafone mobile which gives me unlimited UK calls and texts plus 40gb of data. I use it for pretty much all calls in the UK and some outside too. Then for Mrs S and for my second phone (I use this for contracting), we have a BT Mobile family plan with one bill, I control the account and it can have up to 5 sim cards on it. In the last Black Friday sales last year, I changed the account to 90GB data, unlimited calls and texts (all sims get this limit, it is not shared). For the two sim's it costs around £47 with a £5 discount for our daughters BT landline setup.

On top of this I have a skype package which doesn't exist any more but I can keep on paying for it. I have a combination skypeout to the EU and a skypein number. You can call my skypein (Edinburgh landline number) and my skype will ring. The pair allow me, also, to have dedicated skypeout numbers. I use these for business and also for talking to Mrs S. For Mrs S I call my skype access number ( a UK mobile number), from my mobile and it links through skype to the French landline number for no cost. So, for instance, I call my access number in the UK and it calls the French landline (over 30p per minute on my mobile plan), for free. The skype access number, being a UK mobile number, doesn't cost me.

It becomes more interesting with EU roaming. If I'm in Belgium, I call my UK skype access number, it calls the French landline and the UK leg costs me nothing (UK number EU Roaming, unlimited minutes plan), skype, of course, also costs me nothing.

I pay €100 per year for this but I save a fortune on it.

The biggest issue is trying to stop Mrs S from using the French landline for calling UK mobiles (UK landlines are free within the plan at all times).

I can have a plan which gives me free EU wide mobile calls on the landline but it is nearly double the cost and our incidental monthly calls never reach double.