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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