UK Telecom Tariff Comparisons at http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/ - August 2008 Update

UK Residential Telecom Tariff Comparisons, v125, 26 Aug 2008

Comparisons of 145 residential and 70 business telephone tariff call
costs, and 197 residential and 90 business call plans charged by 135
different operators and resellers in the United Kingdom, compiled by
Magenta Systems Ltd.

05pence, 0844 Calls, 123Call, 18185.co.uk, 1899.com, 4tel
Communications, Abroadcall, AbroadTel, ACN, Adept Telecom, Alpha
Telecom, Andrews & Arnold, AOL, Auracall, Axis Telecom, Band Telecom,
Barablu, British Telecom, Budgetcom, Bulldog, Call 18866, Call2Call,
Call Happy, Callserve, Callthrough.co.uk, Call Union, Care Telecom,
Carphone Warehouse, CF1 Telecom, Cheapest Calls, Cheapest Chat,
CherryCall, Clever Rates, Coms.Com, CountryCall, CytaUK, Demon, Direct
Save Telecom, DrayTEL, Dial Around, DialWise, Discount Dial, Easy-Dial,
Eclipse, Equitalk, Euphony, First National Telecom, First:Telecom,
First Number, Focus 4U, FreeCall, FreedomCall, Fused Webcalls, GoTalk!,
Gradwell, HIGHnet, ICUK, Jajah, Jersey Telecom, Joy Telecom, Just
Phone, Kent Telephones, Kingston Comms, Liquid Telecom, Localphone,
LycaTel, Maxtalk, My Mondo, NetCalls4Less, Nildram, Orange, PhoneBird,
Phone Cheap, The Phone Co-Op, Pipex, PlusNet, Post Office, Primus,
Qdial, Qudo, QX Telecom, RateBuster, Resource Utilities, Saga Telephone
Service, Sainsbury's Telecom, SchoolTel, Scottish & Southern Energy,
Simply-Fone, Sipgate, Skype, Sky Talk, Smallworld Media, Solwise, Story
Telecom, SuperLine, Swiftcall, Swiftnet, 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, 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 125 in late August 2008  adds Fused Webcalls (business) and
updates BT, 05pence (residential), 0844 Calls (residential), Abroadcall
(residential), AbroadTel (residential), Call Happy (residential),
Call2Call (residential),  Carphone Warehouse TalkTalk (business),
Cheapest Calls (residential), Cheapest Chat (residential), CherryCall
(residential), CountryCall (residential), Dial Around (residential),
DialWise (residential), Discount Dial (residential), Eclipse
(residential), Kingston Communications, Liquid Telecom (residential and
business), Localphone (residential), Lycatel (residential), My Mondo
(residential), NetCalls4Less (residential), Nildram (residential),
Pipex HomeCall (residential), Phone Cheap (residential), Phone Co-Op
(residential), PhoneBird (residential), Post Office (residential),
Qdial (residential), QX Telecom (residential), RateBuster
(residential), Simply-Fone (residential), Sky Talk (residential),
TeleTop (residential), Telesavers (residential), TopUpNow
(residential), TopUp2Talk (residential), Vectone (residential) and
WebCall Direct (residential).  Lansdowne Telecom (business), Lo-call
Telecom (business), MCI (business), MegaCalls (residential), Nomi
(residential), ntl:Telewest (business), OneBill Telecom (business),
Opal (business), Primus (business) and Qualicom Aspire (business), have
been removed for old tariffs.

Many operators have been increasing costs to Pakistan recently due to
the Pakistan raising the tax (Settlement Rate) on incoming calls from
US$0.025 to US$0.10 per minute (about 1.25p to 5p/min).  Operators
already charging 10p/min or more for Pakistan might be able to absorb
the increased tax, but better value operators need to increase the call
cost.  Historically, most countries taxed incoming international calls
and this cost was one reason for the high cost of calling many
countries.  In recent years such taxes have been reduced (India from
US$0.10 to US$0.05) or removed, and with the use of the internet to
deliver overseas calls, costs have fallen.  It's why you can call China
or the USA for the same price (or less) as a UK call from better
operators.  Cuba is a notable exception, being the most expensive
country by several fold.

BT is increasing the residential call connection cost from 6p to 7p,
from 16th September 2008, which is reflected in this update.  The
domino effect means other operators that closely follow BT pricing will
be following, Carphone Warehouse from 1st October, and Post Office from
7th September (but only to 6p, and making UK weekend calls free).  BT
is reducing charging for the residential Mobile Saver scheme to
7.5p/min 24/7, which will be the cheapest way of calling a UK mobile
peak time (but Carphone Warehouse is dropping to 7p/min in October).
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