Cheap Phone Calls UK

Cheap phone call services in the United Kingdom.

Country code (international dialing code) for the United Kingdom (Great Britain): +44

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If you live in the UK you can make big savings on your phone bill by using Telediscount. What’s more, their service is very easy to use – there is no registration, no need for a credit card, simply dial their access numbers and you will be billed via your BT invoice. Find some of the cheapest international calling rates with Telediscount.

Many over-ride access providers need you to register online in order to initiate their service, not so with Telediscount. Make cheap international phone calls simply by dialling an access number for the country you want to call. You can use this service on landlines, mobiles and payphones and the service works with BT, Telewest and NTL.

Many calls to overseas landline numbers are 1p per minute, including Australia, Canada, China, Spain and the US. You can also call mobile phones at cheap rates too.

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3 have launched free Skype calls from your mobile for anyone within the UK who has a 3 SIM card and a compatible handset. This service is valid from 1st May 2009 and means you can call any Skype user for free from your mobile phone.

You have to have a compatible phone in order to download and run the Skype mobile software, but having done that you can call any other Skype user for free from your mobile / cell phone - and that’s millions of Skype users! It works both for people with 3 contracts and pay-as-you-go users.

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1301 (used to be called ZeroP) is a service for dialling from the United Kingdom only which uses access numbers to give free phone calls! No need to change your telephone provider simply dial 1301 from a BT line or 0808 142 1301 from any other line (including a mobile) and you can access cheap rates and to certain countries free call time. A small connection fee is applied to every call made.

There is no sign-up fee, and you simply register the phones, landline or mobile, that you want to make calls from on the 1301 website.

Note that the 1301 system will not work if you are subscribed to BT Light.

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Poketalk used to offer free phone calls to landlines because the calls were sponsored by advertising. However, recently their service has changed and they are not longer offering free calls. However, they offering very cheap international phone calls.

Poketalk offer cheap phone calls to landlines, and in some countries to mobile phones too, using your existing telephone. You start the call online by entering both the number you’re calling from and the destination number and PokeTALK connect you.

You must first register at the PokeTALK website, which is free. There are no connection fees and no downloads.

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FooCall is a cheap international calling service from your mobile phone. Keep your existing mobile device and mobile number and access cheap calling rates by registering at the FooCall website. There is no software to download and no pin numbers to remember. When you register you get 15 minutes free international call time.

To use the FooCall system you need an internet enabled mobile / cell phone. Once you have registered online, which is free, you can then login to the FooCall mobile website using your mobile phone browser. From there you enter the telephone number that you want to dial, however, when you hit the call button, the FooCall system dials a local telephone number first. That local number then connects you to the international number you first entered and you are connected using local call rates.

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A VoIP application that lets you make cheap international phone calls from your mobile phone. Vopium boast savings of up to 90% on calls. To use the service, you must first register your mobile phone by signing up online or sending an SMS to Vopium. You will then receive a link to visit in order to download the application. On signing up you get 30 minutes free call time, after using your free minutes, you need to purchase credit in order to continue.

Vopium is available in over 50 countries including: Australia, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Malta, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and US.

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18185 is an over-ride telephone provider that lets you make cheaper telephone calls to UK and overseas numbers when dialing from the UK (you cannot use this service if you live outside of the UK). You have to sign up to use the 18185 service and have a debit or credit card so that they can bill you. Once you have registered you simply dial 18185 before the telephone number.

Because you have to set up an account to use 18185 you only need to remember one access number – 18185. You always dial this same access number whichever country you’re calling, so this service is very easy to use.

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