UK Telecom Tariff Cost Comparisons - Cheap UK & International Phone Calls

Comparisons of 142 residential and 69 business telephone tariff call costs, and 335 residential and 195 business call plans charged by 133 different telecommunications operators and resellers in the United Kingdom, compiled by Magenta Systems Ltd, including direct and indirect access, CPS, VoIP and call through (two stage dialling) schemes. The comparison lists the cheapest telephone calls for both business and residential users.

05pence
0844 Calls
123Call
1301
18185.co.uk
1899.com
24Talk
4tel Communications
Abroadcall
AbroadTel
ACN
Adept Telecom
Alpha Telecom
Andrews & Arnold
AOL
Auracall
Axis Telecom
Band Telecom
Barablu
British Telecom
Budgetcom
Call 18866
Call2Call
Call Happy
Calls Discount
Callserve
Callthrough.co.uk
Call Union
Care Telecom
Cheapest Calls
Cheapest Chat
CherryCall
Clever Rates
Coms.Com
Continental Telecom
CountryCall
Crazy Cheap Calls
CytaUK
Daisy Communications
Demon
Dial Around
DialWise
Direct Save Telecom
Discount Dial
DrayTEL

Easy-Dial
Eclipse
eZe-Talk
First National Telecom
First:Telecom
First Number
Focus 4U
FreeCall
FreedomCall
Fused Webcalls
Gold Telecom
Gotalk
Gradwell
HIGHnet

Hive Telecom
ICUK
IDNet
Jajah
Jersey Telecom
Joy Telecom
Just Phone
Kent Telephones
Kingston Comms
Liquid Telecom
Localphone
Lycatel
Mootel
My Mondo
NetCalls4Less
O2
OneBill Telecom
Opal
Orange
PhoneBird
Phone Cheap
The Phone Co-Op
Phonestar
Pipex Homecall
PlusNet
Post Office
Primus
Qdial
Qudo
QX Telecom
RateBuster

Resource Utilities
Saga Telephone Service
Scottish & Southern Energy
Simply-Fone
Sipgate
Skype
Sky Talk
Smallworld Media
Solwise Telephony
Story Telecom
SuperLine
Talkcheaper.net
TalkTalk
Telecom Plus
Telediscount
Telesave
Telesavers
Telestunt
TeleTop
Tesco Talk
Tiscali
Topup2Talk
TopUpDial
TopUpNow
UKCall
Unicom
Universal Telecom
Uniworld
Ventelo
Virgin Media (ntl:Telewest)
Vodafone
Voice Trading
VoIPCheap
Voipfone
Vonage
WebCall Direct
Welcome Telecom
Wizards
Work-Phones
XLN Telecom
Yellow Telecoms
Yourcalls.net
Your Connection
Zen Internet

Please note that Magenta Systems Ltd does not sell or recommend any of these tariffs, you need to contact each company specifically. Magenta Systems simply publishes this price information for comparison purposes. Nor do we take any money from these companies to list their information, it is totally impartial. Sorry, but we can not provide advice about the best tariffs for any individual or company, you must compare the prices and make your own choices.

Multiple tariff costs are shown for some operators, for others discounted tariff costs are calculated. The spreadsheet version allows the discount costs to be changed for differing spend levels. The level of detail varies between operators, some supply everything, others just the more common tariff costs. The comparison is updated at least 10 times a year, with operator tariffs being checked every three to six months, the better operators inform us of changes monthly, as they happen. Residential prices all include VAT at 17.5%, unless otherwise stated.

Non-Members may view the residential tariffs as web pages, but to download them in spreadsheet format or access the various code tables you need to become a paid member. The business pages look identical to the residential pages, they simply contain different companies and figures.

Access to the Business Members Site and Residential Members Site requires a logon name and password, which is emailed once the Membership Form on the secure server has been completed and payment received. Details of information available to Members and the prices is available in the Site Overview. Business members may view and print the tariffs, numbering and operator information from an Acrobat (PDF) file.

State of the Industry attempts to give an overview of recent changes, which operators are being taken over, which have ceased offering services and those in financial difficulty.

Site News

The presentation of the UK Telecom Tariff Cost Comparison web site has substantially changed this month, to improve clarity and offer improved comparison between the hundreds of telephone tariffs listed.

Extended CodeLook now lists all numbers found, instead of one at time using next and previous, provided at least two or three digits are entered. The new list allows clicking for full details of each number, also the charging band and operator. The number and charge band pages show the cost of calling that number both as detailed call cost bands and sample costed calls of various lengths on different days and times. Calls may be costed by any residential or business package (around 500 at present) selected as the Charge Costing Package. Because CodeLook now returns multiple numbers, the previous daily limit of 100 free look-ups has been reduced to 20, after which a membership login is needed. We are however offering free membership for non-commercial use by the various authorities that use CodeLook to trace telecom operators.

The operators page shows the company address and telephone number and web link (if available) with details of Ofcom 'licenses' and numbers of number codes allocated. When looking-up localities, all the exchange codes in a locality may now be listed. These various pages that previously listed telecom operators and links have been consolidated into a single common new format, with extended information including many more external web links, with new links being added added each month,

Business and residential tariff packages may now be listed alphabetically, or compared by different categorisation such as bundled free calls and broadband. For any package, the complete list of call costs may be viewed. Line rental costs may be compared. Call costs may be compared for 350 different charge bands (instead of six before), with sample call costs shown for various call lengths between 30 seconds and 1½ hours. Various other reports are planned for future weeks.

Numbering and Database Products

A number of UK telephone Numbering and Database Products are available, including:

Online Extended CodeLook, lookup partial numbers, tariff bands, localities and call prices on a web page
Magenta UK Numbering Database is designed for those that need to fully integrate telephone numbering, tariff band and locality information into their own systems. This membership offers comma separated variable text files of the numbering database information. Sample extracts can be provided on request. The numbering database is a snapshot of current numbers and tariff bands, usually updated weekly.
Magenta SQL Telecom Database offers a Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 database with both numbering and tariff information, containing stored procedures to access the content, exactly the same database that drives this web site. For use with other SQL databases, CSV files are also be available. The SQL database is historic, containing old and current numbering and tariff information allowing telephone calls to be costed as at a specified date.

ComCap - Magenta Serial Port and Network Capture Utility

ComCap is a Windows application designed to capture data received on PC RS232 serial communications ports or using network TCP/IP and UDP streams and save it. Captured data is shown in scrolling windows and is written to text files, and may also be printed, written to SQL database tables or echoed to other PCs using network protocols or serial ports. Captured data can have text added such as date and time, a serial number and remote IP address. Data from up to 500 serial ports and network streams can be captured simultaneously, in separate files, with various file rotation schemes to start new files periodically. ComCap will capture to files on two separate disk drives for redundancy and will send email and SMS alerts if problems occur. ComCap is both a system tray and background service application that can be set to start automatically when windows starts, and remain unobtrusive. When using the background service, captured data may be still be viewed as it arrives. .

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