Virgin Media is to offer free landline to mobile calls, but don't get
too excited...

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/02/01/virgin_media_landline_to_mobile_tariff/:

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Virgin Media is to offer customers free calls from their Virgin
landlines to their Virgin mobile phones. As always, strings are
attached.

Strictly free calls are reserved for the upcoming weekend-only 'Size
M' plan. Add weekday evenings into the mix for 'Size L' and you pay
£3.45 a month. For the 24/7 'Size XL' tariff you pay £7.95. Line
rental for all three tariffs is £11.99 a month.

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I wonder how it will charge for calls to Virgin Mobile numbers that
have been ported to another network?
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"Martin Jay" wrote in message
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Virgin Media is to offer free landline to mobile calls, but don't get
too excited...

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/02/01/virgin_media_landline_to_mobile_tariff/:

----- Begin Quote -----

Virgin Media is to offer customers free calls from their Virgin
landlines to their Virgin mobile phones. As always, strings are
attached.

Strictly free calls are reserved for the upcoming weekend-only 'Size
M' plan. Add weekday evenings into the mix for 'Size L' and you pay
£3.45 a month. For the 24/7 'Size XL' tariff you pay £7.95. Line
rental for all three tariffs is £11.99 a month.

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I wonder how it will charge for calls to Virgin Mobile numbers that
have been ported to another network?
Martin Jay


Most probably as on network, so included.
Could well be worth porting a Virgin mobile number into ones mobile account

Assuming you know someone on Virgin media who wants to call
your mobile a lot at weekends

Steve Terry
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Steve Terry wrote on 01/02/2010 :
Most probably as on network, so included.

I'd doubt it. It's (fairly) trivial to know what is on-net or
off-net...as opposed to knowing what network a number is actually on.

In uk.telecom Jono wrote:
I'd doubt it. It's (fairly) trivial to know what is on-net or
off-net...as opposed to knowing what network a number is actually on.

But since Virgin are a mobile telco too, they'll have a database of which
number is on which network. It 'just' requires plugging into the landline
billing infrastructure.

Theo

On 02/02/2010 00:24, Theo Markettos wrote:
In uk.telecom wrote:
I'd doubt it. It's (fairly) trivial to know what is on-net or
off-net...as opposed to knowing what network a number is actually on.

But since Virgin are a mobile telco too, they'll have a database of which
number is on which network. It 'just' requires plugging into the landline
billing infrastructure.

Theo

It's states that ported numbers will take up to 72 hours to be
recognised by Virginmedia.

"BC" wrote in message
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On 02/02/2010 00:24, Theo Markettos wrote:
In uk.telecom wrote:
I'd doubt it. It's (fairly) trivial to know what is on-net or
off-net...as opposed to knowing what network a number is actually on.

But since Virgin are a mobile telco too, they'll have a database of which
number is on which network. It 'just' requires plugging into the
landline
billing infrastructure.
Theo

It's states that ported numbers will take up to 72 hours to be recognised
by Virginmedia.


The important thing is unless Virgin media have changed billing systems
charge by the prefix, not correctly by the network.

Steve Terry
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