Handy price comparison

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Name Tel. no. Cost for 1 min Connection charge Call cost Min. charge
Dir. Enqs. UK 11 88 00 19p Nil 19p/min 19p
11 88 88 11 88 88 20p Nil 20p/min 20p
One 11 88 11 30p Nil 30p/call 30p
Telco 11 88 77 35p 30p 5p/min N/A
One.Tel 118 111 35p Nil 35p/call 35p
(free for One.Tel customers until the end of 2003)

Here are the royal rip-offs:
Orange 118 000 49p Nil 49p/min 49pYellow Pages 118 247 40p Nil 40p/min N/A
Telewest 118 180 55p 25p 30p/min N/A
192.com 118 119 55p 25p 30p/call N/A
BT 118 500 55p 25p 30p/min N/A
11 88 66 11 88 66 58p 49p 9p/min N/A
The Number 118 118 58p 49p 9p/min N/A

 

Scary

I personally use BT's Website (& click on the Directory Enquiry button - 10 free hits per day but often quite busy

Or for a business, Yell - very good service

No cost at all then

 

I'm pi$$ed off with all the advertising that is going on at the moment.... they think they are being really clever ingraining numbers into our heads, but they don't make any comparison of why their service is any better than any of the others!

 

I thought the 118118 crowd were shouting that they were half the price of the BT service?? Not true? Or just in some twilight zone "sometimes"..?

 

if they did then it passed me by!

 

The ripoff/conspiracy is even bigger than you realise [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

BT delivered my new phone directory yesterday. It is now a combined residential and business one, but there is a subtle change!!

The (separate) residential listings for last year were only the North half of Birmingham, but the business ones covered the whole area.

This year, surprise surprise, the business listings are only for the North - indeed they don't even cover the city centre

Thus, i don't have easy access to business numbers in the majority of Birmingham - so i am forced to have to use directory enquiries [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Oftel must be getting back-handers off BT

mb

 

My mistake, it was 118888 that claimed to be half price. But looking at the numbers above, that's a false claim. Another slanging match as per the gas/electricity people in the making it seems...

 

Apparently several of the companies offer a FORWARDing service, they find the number for you, then ask if you would like to be put through to your found number - trouble is the 118118 is 30p per minute all the time you are using their service - you get charged their 30p rate all the time you are on their forwarded call.

Betcha they dont run an advert telling you that little beauty