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 have just had a call from a local entrepreneur who has been a customer for almost 20 years.
He wanted advice on whether a proposed new digital cordless phone would work on his office phone system and in particular whether the SMS text message function would work.
My customer had his eye on the Siemens Gigaset SL785 digital cordless phone.