Calls to mobiles — one honest rate, every UK network

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Pick up a business phone bill and run a finger down the itemised calls: the lines that sting are almost never landline-to-landline. They're calls to mobiles. Customers answer on mobiles, suppliers answer on mobiles, your own engineers and reps are on mobiles — and retail providers price accordingly. We route those same calls at wholesale rates instead: from 8p per minute to every UK mobile network, billed per second after the first minute, on the same lines and phones you already have. UK Wholesale has supplied business telecoms since 2005, on the same Openreach infrastructure the big retailers use — without the retail margin, and with experts you can actually speak to.

What calling mobiles costs

• One flat rate to all UK mobile networks — from 8p per minute. EE, O2, Vodafone, Three, and the virtual networks that run on top of them, all priced the same.
• No 'all major networks except…' small print. If it's a UK mobile number, the rate applies. You never need to know which network the person you're calling happens to be on.
• Per-second billing after the first minute. A ninety-second call is billed as ninety seconds — not rounded up to the next whole minute.
• Heavy mobile caller? Capped and inclusive packages take it further — calls capped at 20p for up to an hour.

Why calls to mobiles quietly dominate business phone bills

Landline-to-mobile is where retail call pricing does its quiet work. Three things stack up against you:

• Mobile rates carry the biggest margin. Calls to mobiles cost providers more to terminate than landline calls — and retail tariffs add their own healthy mark-up on top. That mark-up is the part wholesale routing removes.
• Most of your calls now end on a mobile. The way Britain answers the phone has changed: customers, tradespeople, couriers, sales contacts — the number you're given is a mobile number. A rate that only looked "occasional" a decade ago now prices most of your outbound calling.
• The pricing hides in the small print. Rounded-up minutes, different rates for different networks, "inclusive" allowances that exclude the calls you actually make — retail mobile pricing is built to be hard to compare. One flat per-second rate is built to be easy.

None of this needs a new phone system to fix. It needs the same calls routed over wholesale agreements instead of retail ones — which is the entire service.

Retail mobile pricing vs one wholesale rate

The honest caveat, as always: "up to 72%" is measured against standard rates, and your exact saving depends on your call mix. That's why we'd rather re-price a real bill than wave a percentage at you — send us one and you'll see the difference line by line.

Same lines, same phones — different rates underneath

There's no trick to explain away. Your calls travel over the same Openreach network they always have — the same lines and the same engineers the big retailers use. What changes is the agreement your calls are billed under: wholesale rather than retail, with the middleman's margin taken out of every minute. That's why the discount can be this large without anything about how you work changing.

• No engineer's visit, no downtime. Nothing physical is touched. Your lines, phones and numbers stay exactly as they are.
• One bill you can actually read. Itemised and accurate, with mobile calls priced at the rate we quoted — not a rate you discover afterwards.
• Experts on the end of the phone. A team in Poole and Hyde that answers its own calls and can actually fix things — no ticket ping-pong.
• It's one piece of a smaller bill. Mobile rates sit alongside our other business call charges — UK landline calls, and international calls if you ring abroad — all priced the same wholesale way.

Where "from 8p a minute" actually lands

Think about who your business rings in a normal week. A builder chasing suppliers and homeowners. A recruiter working through a list of candidates. A surgery confirming appointments. A sales office doing follow-up calls. In every one of those, the overwhelming majority of numbers dialled are mobiles — so the mobile rate isn't a footnote on the tariff, it's effectively the price of your outbound calling.

Move that calling from a marked-up retail rate to 8p per minute, add per-second billing so short calls stop being rounded into long ones, and the saving repeats on every call, every day, indefinitely. Against standard rates, call charges come out up to 72% lower — and because nothing about your setup changes, there's no cost or disruption to offset against it. The saving is simply the margin you stop paying.

If your team makes genuinely long mobile calls — support lines, account management, anyone who settles in for a chat — a capped call package goes further still: calls to mobiles capped at 20p for up to an hour, so a forty-five-minute call costs the same as a five-minute one. And if you'd rather have a fixed monthly figure than any per-minute rate, inclusive-minutes packages roll your calls into one predictable price.

Pair the calls with wholesale line rental

Call charges are half the bill; the other half is the line itself. Business line rental with us is £13.99 a month — typically a 42% saving, on the same Openreach line you have now — and if you find it cheaper elsewhere, we'll beat the price and add a month free. Put wholesale line rental under wholesale call rates and the saving compounds on every single bill. See the full range of business phone line services — including SIP trunks if you're heading towards internet calling — or start with the line you already have.

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