Bye bye international call charges!

[weishu76]

There is a revolutionary instant dial service - JUST-DIAL, allowing you to make savings on calls to destinations worldwide, right here, right now - without the need to open an account or give any credit card details or get yet another bill through your door. All you need is a phone, the relevant instant dial access number(0870 794 3185) and someone to call!

It's so eary! You don't join anything, or pay up front - just choose your destination, and err...JUST DIAL!.

************************* How to make the Call ************************* 1) Dial the relevant access number(0870 794 3185) for the country you wish to call. 2) At the prompt dial your international destination number in full(including 00)* 3) That's it, your're connected.

• Remember you can dial your destination number at any time during the prompt.

******************************=AD************ How you pay for the calls you make ******************************=AD************ When you make a call via 0870 794 3185, you only pay for calling 0870 794 3185. It is your service provider that will charge you - not this number. So for example, if you made a 5 minute call to India from a BT phone, then next time you got your BT bill you would see a call to 0870 794 3185, a duration of 5 minutes and a charge of 50p and absolutely no other charges. Simple!

The prices shown on this site are BT's charges per minute for calling the access number 0870 794 3185 and you are charged per second from connection to the 0870 794 3185 service. If you're not with BT you need to check with your service provider hwo much they will charge for calls made to the access numbers. Some mobile service providers even bundle some of the access number 0870 794 3185 into certain free minutes packages. If you are thinking of using the access number 0870 794 3185 from your mobile phone plase first check the charges with your mobile service provider. To find out the cost of calling from a UK mobile, or a non BT landline, you should confirm the rates directly with your service provider as these may vary.

Orange - 0800 80 10 80 Vodafone - 07836 191 191 mm02 - 08705 214 000 One 2 One / T-Mobile - 08454 121 121 Virgin - 0845 6000 789

***************************** The popular destinvations ***************************** 1)Americas, Africa & Australasia Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, USA

2)Europe - East & West France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland

3)Asia & the Middle East China, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Israel, Malaysia, Pakistan

[Fred]

WARNING ITS A CON

[tony sayer]

In article , Fred writes

Course it is 1189 is cheaper than 0870 numbers anyway!.....

[Derek ^]

Going the 0870 route you start to pay the instant the call through operator answers the call. You pay while you are keying in the long international number, you pay while *they* route the call through, you pay while the called party's phone is ringing, and you still pay all this if the called party never answers. :(

Oh, and any telco except BT can charge whatever they like for 0870 numbers, and they may/may not come out of inclusive minutes packages.

DG

[RedOnRed]

Do you mean 1899? Being 1899.com?

Which would cost about 43p for a five minute call to India @ 8p a minute and a connection charge of 3p.

I've been using it for months and benefiting nicely from the totally free local and national calls, other then the connection charge - which every one charges.

My sister's just moved to Australia and that's only 3p a minute! She was in Singapore before which was only 1p a minute!

How do those crazy 1899 people do it? That's 1899.com. The one stop service for free local and national calls and very cheap international ones. Make the move now and start saving.

[tony sayer]

In article , RedOnRed writes

I believe they make great use of VoIP which costs very little. And they don't seem to have a call centre and all the other costs that go with it. If they can do it this cheap it just goes to show what BT and the cable co's and mobile telco's are making!.

In fact I use it for calls to the USA at 1 pence per min can't be bad!...

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[tony sayer]

In article , tony sayer writes

Just to add check out

or .com they have some even cheaper rates to some destinations dunno about the quality 'tho!....

[RedOnRed]

Re-routing through VOIP, is that really possible? I suppose it must be. It's an interesting point.

[tim (moved to sweden)]

They are cherry-picking the best customers by marginal pricing. It's easy to run a company on marginal pricing if your business capacity is 100% (or close to) utilised. But if you are the major player in the market and have to provide a quality service at all times you find that for large parts of the day/week your expensively created capacity sits idle. And that's before you get to pick up the bill for the loss making socially required services that only you are obliged to provide.

Telecomms is one of the easiest markets to steal the best customers in this way. Sooner or later something is going to have to be done to redress this imbalance or there is not going to be a company paying for the underlyng network on which everybody else piggy

-backs their marginal cost or even free, services. I really don't understand why it is that BT are so strongly against being broken up into separate companies, it seems the best for them in the long term.

Tim