Home phone comparisons - now updated (... and again)

I screwed up some things for last time, so...

• call caps now included
• calls are now at 30min intervals (please see comment at end of post)
• TelstraClear's other free calling plans/products are included (see info below)

Also, I have included Vodafone home phone plus national plan, just as a comparison for a $40 home phone product which is dotted in the graphs to completely differentiate it from everyone else as I don't think it's a fair comparison, but it still shows that huge savings can be made from a comparably priced phone service.

TelstraClear with it's average calling plans were pretty expensive, so I've included Talk 24/7 and also the dial in Z-talk too, as they're still free, they still count towards the "standard" home phone service.


Do note that the minutes below a graph are a total of all calls, inclusive of local calls, as I've used a call volume table presented by Telecom which includes local to distribute minutes. This means each component (national, international, mobile) will be a portion of the minutes shown.

Everything is averaged as per the last post.

Compared plans:

	Company			Plan
1	Compass Communications			Homeline (Wellington 04 calling region, Christchurch city and most suburbs)
2	Compass Communications			Homeline (in all other areas)
3	Orcon			Homeline
4	Slingshot			Homeline
5	Snap Internet			Snap Voice - Christchurch/Wellington
6	Snap Internet			Snap Voice - Rest of NZ
7	Telecom New Zealand			Homeline (Wellington 04 calling region, Christchurch city and most suburbs)
8	Telecom New Zealand			Homeline (in all other areas)
9	Telecom New Zealand			Anytime (Auckland city, Wellington 04 calling region, Christchurch city and most suburbs)
10	Telecom New Zealand			Anytime (in all other areas)
11	Telecom New Zealand			Anytime Plus (Auckland city, Wellington 04 calling region, Christchurch city and most suburbs)
12	Telecom New Zealand			Anytime Plus (in all other areas)
13	TelstraClear			Homeplan Phoneline Basic
14	TelstraClear			Homeplan Phoneline
15	TelstraClear			InHome Phoneline
16	Vodafone New Zealand			Home phone (in some regions)
17	Vodafone New Zealand			Home phone
18	Vodafone New Zealand			Home phone Red
19	Vodafone New Zealand			Home phone plus (local plan)
20	Vodafone New Zealand			Home phone plus (national plan)
21	TelstraClear			Homeplan Phoneline Basic + Talk 24/7
22	TelstraClear			Homeplan Phoneline Basic (using Ztalk dial in service)
23	TelstraClear			Homeplan Phoneline + Talk 24/7
24	TelstraClear			Homeplan Phoneline (using Ztalk dial in service)
25	TelstraClear			InHome Phoneline + Talk 24/7
26	TelstraClear			InHome Phoneline (using Ztalk dial in service)

Standard home phone services graph, up to 1800 minutes:



From cheapest to most expensive at 1800 minutes:

1. 20
2. 24
3. 23
4. 26
5. 25
6. 4
7. 1
8. 19
9. 11
10. 2
11. 12
12. 16
13. 5
14. 18
15. 17
16. 6
17. 22
18. 3
19. 21
20. 9
21. 10
22. 7
23. 8
24. 14
25. 15
26. 13

Standard home phone services graph, up to 12000 minutes:



From cheapest to most expensive at 12000 minutes:

1. 20
2. 4
3. 11
4. 12
5. 1
6. 2
7. 24
8. 26
9. 19
10. 23
11. 16
12. 18
13. 25
14. 17
15. 5
16. 22
17. 6
18. 3
19. 21
20. 9
21. 10
22. 7
23. 8
24. 14
25. 15
26. 13

(Sorry for the bad colours - all of them are auto-selected by Office)

I hope my new graphs solve the viewing problem.

I have used colours to represent company (except TelstraClear, which is both light blue and blue) and different dot/dash styles offered by Office.


I have used a call of length 30 minutes for each call. Is that good or not? (I'm not sure what the average call length is) - I can easily just change this and instantly make new graphs.

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