now at www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk
Comparisons of 131 residential and 62 business telephone tariff call costs, and 187 residential and 118 business call plans charged by 126 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.
Tariffs Version 141
29 Jan 2010
Numbering Database
03 Feb 2010
Site Last Updated:
29 Jan 2010
View Residential
Tariff Costs (free)
Online CodeLook
Lookup partial numbers,
tariff bands and localities
on a web page
Business
Members Site
(requires password)
Residential
Members Site
(requires password)
Numbering
Members Site
(requires password)
Application
Members Site
(requires password)
Overview and
Membership
Information
Membership
Order Form
(secure server)
What's New This Month
(Site History)
January 2010 Changes
(members only)
Operators and Notes
(listed on this site)
Operator Address List
(listed on this site)
Operator Carrier
Pre-selection List
(from Ofcom)
Reseller Carrier
Pre-selection List
(with address details,
from Ofcom)
Other Magenta
Sites
CamCollect
view and save
webcam pictures
CodeLook
lookup telephone
numbers and cost
ComCap v4
data capture utility
DUN Manager
broadband and dial-up
networking enhancement
Update Windows
Registration Details
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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 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 UK Telecom Tariff Cost Comparisons web site recently moved from Magenta Systems Ltd main site at http://www.magsys.co.uk to it's own http://www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/ domain. The new site uses a different back end server, which will ease many improvements planned for the next three months. The only obvious difference at the moment is all pages with ASP URLs are now HTM instead. For members, the login system has been improved so you will be remembered between visits and will only need to login once instead of separately for different parts of the site. The main index pages now show if you are logged-in and allow log-off if the PC is shared. Logged-in members now have unrestricted access to Online CodeLook bypassing the daily usage restriction.
Numbering Products
A number of UK telephone Numbering Products are available, including:
- CodeLook, a windows application to look-up partial telephone numbers to find the locality and tariff band, and look-up localities to find the code, this is free to members
- Online CodeLook, lookup partial numbers, tariff bands and localities on a web page
- Magenta UK Numbering ActiveX DLL is designed for those that want to integrate the functionality of CodeLook, looking up partial telephone numbers to find the locality and tariff, and looking up localities to find the code, into other applications or web pages
- Magenta UK Numbering Database is designed for those that need to fully integrate telephone numbering, tariff band and locality information into their own systems
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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