PAYG has improved a lot in recent years.

Contract mobiles give landline deals a run for their money.

eg. I pay O2 £13 a month for 800 minutes to any mobile, and unlimited 01/02/03 calls (not taken out of minutes).
O2 also have a new deal which is £20 a month for unlimited to landlines and mobiles but doesnt include 0845 0800.

So mobiles do currently lose on 0800 and 0845 no doubt but 0800 will be free soon as ofcom are changing the regulations. So it will just be 0845 left which often can get alternate numbers for. Indeed I now only use my landline for 0845/0800 rest is mobile.

PAYG is pricier per minute but factor in it has no line rental. For people who are low users PAYG should be cheaper than any line rental based product. I have a PAYG number which I havent made an outbound call on for nearly 2 years which I use for inbound calls. So not bad I got a number to use for no cost.

Edited by Chrysalis (Fri 22-Feb-13 00:45:26)

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

nope its still £50, its even listed on that document ignition posted a couple of days back.

That's the same document I linked to at the start of this thread. As I said in #1 it shows both a £50 and an £11 FTTC migration charge, depending on whether it's BTW --> BTW or not.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

So mobiles do currently lose on 0800 and 0845 no doubt but 0800 will be free soon as ofcom are changing the regulations. So it will just be 0845 left which often can get alternate numbers for. Indeed I now only use my landline for 0845/0800 rest is mobile.

Download BT SmartTalk to any smartphone. Apparently works away from home as well but I haven't tried that.

I pay £12 a month for 600 minutes and 1GB of data, wife pays £7.50 for 250 minutes and 250MB of data IIRC.

Both contracts were taken out with very good cashback deals, which I used to do each year, but now the monthly charge is low I can't be bothered with the hassle.

interesting although I have to take into account I need to make 2 calls every month only my BT line to get the caller display free which is something else to make a note off on landlines. VM/BT etc. have a habit of treating things like caller display, call waiting and ring back as extra chargeable features which are standard on my mobiles.