Post office home phone update

September 18th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

The post office home phone which was for years the darling of United Kingdom consumers has slipped recently in favor of more competitive pricing offers from companies such as Yourcalls.net, Virgin Media and Vonage. With better pricing options now including unlimited day or night calling, the lower monthly rate as initially offered in 2005 by Post Office Home Phone seems to have fallen out of favour. A recent article about this in respected consumer assistance website for home phone analysis homephonechoices.co.uk remarks on the obvious benefits of unlimited calling plans. The trend for any time any day calling has become so popular as to cause the landslide of UK consumer home phone switching.

Those consumers rushing to change home phone companies can hardly be faulted considering that even BT landline users have available a £4.95 charge for unlimited calling. One hopes that this is a signal that the integrated eight pence minimum connection charge per call is ready to take its last bow. Home Phone Choices notes that UK consumers are no longer complacently paying the league each month for needed services such as home phone and broadband without giving close examination to the price they pay. Indeed with companies such as Primus offering completely free nights and weekends service and Vonage offering exceptional pricing for international long distance calling, companies such as the post office once considered to be innovators will now be playing catch up.

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The BT landline monopoly seems to be ended

July 12th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

British Telecom is mightily fighting to hold onto its share of the UK home phone service marketplace. With competition encroaching from all sides, BT is offering all kinds of new incentives to regain customers lost to companies such as Primus and Vonage. Recent offers include unlimited calls for nights and weekends and free broadband for three months. It all may sound super but British Telecom still insists that every customer pay £11.25 for the rental of a BT landline. This last is BT’s mainstay, as they charge every home phone service company in the nation save one for use of their copper cables. How then is the BT grip coming to an end? Two affronts are gradually placing BT in a position where they will eventually have to lower their base pricing. The first is the bundling of home phone service with low cost providers of broadband.

Companies such as the Post Office Home Phone and Primus are undercutting BT’s rates even with the added expense of having to pay BT for use of lines. Still the bigger threat to BT’s landline monopoly comes from Virgin Media and their shiny new grid of fibre optic cables.

These super speed communications lines eliminate the need for any BT association whatsoever. And because fibre optics carry data much faster, Virgin can even bundle home phone and broadband with TV. For a more complete explanation of the new low prices for home phone service visit homephonechoices.co.uk. All information from Home Phone Choices is free of charge as part of the Consumer Choices Network.

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