If your phone charge is running over the monthly budget, you can reduce the costs by choosing the right plan and get broadband, line rental, unlimited evening and weekend calls and cheap calls to mobiles, saving a massive 60% per annum.

Usually the cheapest provider for normal calls may not be cheap for calling mobiles. Yet, there are some specialist providers for calling mobiles by dialing some special numbers. So choose the cheapest main provider such as BT and make use of special providers.

Many landline providers offer special discounts for opting to get bills through e-mail rather than post, For example, BT’s normal line rental is £12.50/mth, but with online method and direct debit payment, it drops to £11.25/mth.


Tiscali’s Option 1 ‘free broadband’ offer broadband, line rental and free calls at weekends, plus some international calls for £14.99/month. For a year’s contract, that goes at £17.49/month.

TalkTalk’s Essential package offers line rental, connection, broadband internet and unlimited evening and weekend calls for £19.41 over its 18 month contract, which includes the connection fee. The advantage of this over Tiscali is free calls to UK landlines at weekends, as well as local daytime calls.

TalkTalk has announced that it will be buying out Tiscali. If you are a Tiscali customer you should not worry as they have promised that the service and terms will stay the same for those currently with Tiscali.

Like many phone providers the ‘free calls’ are time limited. Yet it’s easy to defeat this, just put the phone down and redial the same number before that.