I am using the current WorldOnline/ Screaming/ LocalTel service which costs about £5 a month on top of the standard line rental for 24/7 access. I am afraid that I can not reccommend this service to others as the service has been pathetic recently. It looks like they have sorted what ever the problem was now but I have experienced having to make over 20 attempts to get a connection and there seems to be what I can only guess is a routing problem - as an example, there have been many occasions when Mudcat is slow/ page not available messages using this service when logging on my other account (FreeUK) has given me fast access to this site - the problem can only lie with my ISP.

I tried to get my mother on the FreeServe Time 24 hr deal when I visited her which must have been over a month ago. Although she has a usable account with them, they still have not "proccessed" her application and she is still on metered internet calls. I am a little upset over this as although I new they were only taking on limited numbers per month, there was no indication that they were accepting the accounts and keeping people paying for metered calls. If I had of known that was what they were doing, I probably would have set her up with either the Line One or the BT deal.

Jon