http://www.onetel.co.uk/index.php?no...ktalk&x=13&y=5

hi everybody,
i recently moved back to Bt from telewest on the Bt standard package option1, although i would like to still be able to take advantage of Onetel(who i am with also)
weekend free calls, but not using select or phonepal, but prefixing the numbers with 1877.

i have looked at the onetel website which now says
free weekend calls only available to customers using select only.

can anyone shed any light on this

cheers

Tom

The exact wording is "available to select customers only"

I wonder if this means that you can only get the free calls if you're seven foot four and born on christmas day!!!

On a more serious note... If its only open to CPS customers you can prefix your dialed number to divert back to BT can't you?

Its a pain, but they are running a business so I can't blame them. It's quite a shrewd thing to do, but I can see others following down that avenue soon.

Yes select means you need to be CPS'd to OneTel. Your line rental remains with BT, but calls are automatically routed at the exchange to go over OneTel.

To over-ride OneTel and place the calls back onto BT you dial 1280.

You could also over-ride OneTel with 1899 and make calls to UK landlines for 3 pence per call.

You could CPS to http://www.just-dial.com/pages/jd_saver.asp (Recently bought by OneTel, who have just been bought by TalkTalk(CPW) These offer for no monthly fee, free evening and weekend calls to 01 & 02 numbers, and also capped calls to mobiles off-peak, then you could use 1899 for the daytime calls, and if you wished 18185 for daytime calls to mobiles at 5p/min.

http://www.planet-talk.co.uk/saverpr...x?source=saver another CPS service that offer for no monthly charge free evening and weekend calls.

hi guys before i was with BT i was with telewest & used my phonepal, as you cannot get CPS with cable co, & i was getting free weekend calls at the weekend.
So for all people with cable, does this mean if you have a phonepal, your free weekend calls are over ?

I would say yes, the free calls are over. I take it they have realised cable customers were only using them for the free weekend calls, and then using someone like 1899 for other calls.

personally i wasnt, as my phonepal was connected all the time and my other daytime call went thru them, so i was using them for calls.

But how would they be able to tell the diff, if you were a light user

I don't think they would know, but they would have noticed that a lot of people (granted not all) were only making use of OneTel at weekends for the free calls, and not making any calls outside the free ones.

An awful lot of people on cable+OneTel, were only using OneTel for the free calls, and using 18866 and or 1899 for daytime calls, as they have been offering cheap calls, that OneTel couldn't compete on, at one point even cable customers using 1899 could get calls for just 3p no matter how long you were on the call for, however 1899 now charge via their cable access number 0.5p/min (via BT 0p/min) +3p connection, whereas OneTel charge 2.7p/min daytime.

if you didnt want to use THE CPS service and wanted to remain with BT for some calls , is there any companies out ther now who allow you to just use prefix numbers to access there network of freecalls at weekend and cheap daytime calls

Forget one-tel, for weekends is what I say!

This is what I have done: I have signed up with these people who I am sure you recognise!

They send you a dialler box which pres your dialled number with 1602. (The help line people didn't know the number, I had to find it out with my digit-grabber!)

Anyway just use the service at weekends - I do. They send me a bill every month with £0.00 !

I hope my post has been of use

Have a look through the other posts, as you can get free evening and weekend calls for no monthly fee.