Calling a mobile phone from a landline is significantly more expensive than calling other landline numbers.
BT currently quote rates of between 10.66p per minute and 22.2p per minute for calling mobile phones.
This is in addition to their call set up fee which is currently 8p per call (and due to rise soon).
Therefore a 1 x minute call to a mobile phone would cost at least 18.66p.
There are discount packages available from BT and other providers, but as a general rule it is difficult to get mobile calling costs much below 10p per minute.
I’m on a train from Birmingham to Edinburgh trying to use my 3G wireless dongle to browse the internet and check my emails.
I’m not having much success.
The train is moving fast so I am going through areas of good coverage, poor coverage and no coverage.
This makes the connection unreliable and so far I have had to restart my computer 3 x times because the 3G application has locked up.