Cheap phone calls

[Bushy]

I received this e-mail today, has anyone else received anything like this and more importantly does it work?

 

The UK has one of the largest number of telephones of any country in the

World. As a nation there are now also more mobile phone customers than

landline customers with over 50 million mobile phone subscribers and 35

million landlines installed the UK. This means there are now more phones

than people in the UK!

 

Over 1.5 billion text messages are now sent every month, amounting to one

message per day for every mobile customer in the UK. This costs customers

about £150 million per month or £1.8 billion per year!

 

The average mobile customer makes about 90 minutes of calls per month. This

means people in the UK now make a staggering 4.5 billion minutes of calls

per month from their mobiles. About 1 billion hours per year!

 

About 63 million minutes of calls per month are made to international

destinations, amounting to about 764 million minutes per year!

 

The average customer now spends about £50 per month on their mobile phone.

 

If you thought mobile usage was high, take a look at landline usage!

 

The average landline is used to make nearly 800 minutes of calls per month.

This means landlines in the UK are used to make 27.3 billion minutes of

calls per month. This amounts to 5.46 billion hours per year!

 

About 650 million minutes of calls per month are made to international

destinations from landlines.

 

Of course with so many calls being made, there are many big companies making

large sums of money from so many calls. The mobile phone companies are

earning about £8 billion per year from call charges alone, resulting in

huge profits.

 

BT earns over £5 billion per year from call charges with cable companies

earning another £1 billion. It does however show that mobile companies are

still charging an awful lot more for calls.

 

About £90 million per month is spent by landline users just on international

calls, resulting in just over £1 billion per year!

 

If landline and mobile expenditure is combined, it results in the UK

population spending more than £15 billion (£15,000,000,000!) per year on

making phone calls! There are however many companies which allow discount

calls to be made, often at less than half the normal price on both mobile

phones and landlines. Just imagine how much extra cash people would have if

everyone did that! Why not find out how you can start saving up to 90%

on phone calls without having to change your existing phone company or even

subscribing to any new service! Take a look at http://www.pd-dial.com

 

The figures in this email are based on data from recent Oftel statistics.

 

[Don]

basically it works on the principle of the more people using it, the cheaper it comes (economies of scale).

The set up is like one-tel and planet talk. You pay for your normal landline connection, and before you dial a number, you have to put in a prefix and your account number. You are then billed by two companies - BT/NTL etc for the connection charge, and then the other company for the cost of the call. The second company have low overheads, hence the cheaper calls!

[MadBec]

most of those txt messages are prob mine!im terrible txter!most sent in one month 1201!!!!

[Bushy]

I thought that but on the site it says that we are not billed by them! if you check the link at the bottom of the mail, it states in their site that they dont charge us nothing!

 

[DJ Elemental]

i know how to make free phone calls off Nokia mobiles, problem is it only works with one number...shame

[Bushy]

I used to know a code to put into nokia phones which apparently gave free calls, and when you input the code it comes up on the screen 'sim clock stop allowed' my mate reckons he had a clean phone bill once, never worked for me though!

 

[Pepsi]

I used to know a code to put into nokia phones which apparently gave free calls, and when you input the code it comes up on the screen 'sim clock stop allowed' my mate reckons he had a clean phone bill once, never worked for me though!

 

My mate entered one of those codes into her phone and a little message saying 'sim clock stop allowed' came up on her phone. She still got charged but then a few months later the phone company gave her back £50 cos they said they had over charged her on one of her bills

[Bushy]

Bonus!!! Didnt fekin work for me though!!!

[Tresh]

My mum pays my fone bill so I don't care!

[Bushy]

Spoilt brat!

[Tresh]

And wot?!?!

[Bushy]

jealous i guess!

 

[Tresh]

So u shud be!

[Bushy]

i am!

 

[Tresh]

Good!