Can I cancel a switch to another provider?

Yep Octopus aren't alone in not having a weekend regular phone number. 

Although you can contact them by phone for emergencies only outside the core hours

For example EDF is Monday to Friday. More common for text telephone offer to be freephone 

1. I do not have a mobile phone contract and only use it to call family/friends if I need to when out and about.

2.  My landline has inclusive minutes for weekends only.  I can’t afford to pay an additional £8-10 per month to have weekday calls included when I only need it once in a blue moon. 

3.  The fact that some other companies also use 0330 numbers does not make it right.  No one should have to pay to contact a company customer service department with a problem, or when setting up a new account when the company will profit from that customer.

You do also have the option of Live Chat via https://help.ovoenergy.com which doesn’t cost anything.

As a matter of interest can anyone tell me which telephone landline provider does not charge for calling 0330 numbers.  And I’m not talking about included minutes because the customer pays for that anyway.

Making 03 numbers completely free outside of inclusive allowances would also require every 01, 02, 077, 078, 079, 071, 072, 073, 074 and 075 number also be permanently free… And then bye bye profit margins for all phone networks…. Which would result in the entire system collapsing.

This may seem ironic, but it’s actually cheaper to call 03 numbers from a BT Payphone than it is to call them from a regular landline. https://www.bt.com/pricing/current/Call_Charges_boo/3545_d0e5.htm#3545-d0e5

10p gets you 900 seconds apparently, which works out as 15 minutes. 750p/£7.50 worth of coins gets you 675,000 seconds or 11,250 minutes or 187.5 hours of call time to any 01, 02 or 03 number in the UK if you call it from a BT Payphone.

As I said. OVO doesn’t charge you to call an 03 number and receives none of the money from doing so. It’s your phone provider that charges you to call those numbers and they receive all the money from it. It’s no different from you making a National Rate phone call from say, London to Glasgow. It’s a National phone call, so you pay National Rate charges.

That’s all I have for you.

In case it helps. 

1. Do you have broadband at home? 

2. How much do you pay for your weekend call package? 

2. You could try something like this. This is one of the current Money Saving Expert recommended mobile providers.

Money Saving Expert is quite good for looking for offers. 

Only a rolling one month contract so you can cancel at any time. It is only 49p a month for the first 6 months.

I don't know how much you spend on your weekend landline call package and your mobile calls to friends and family and your daytime calls on your landline to the likes of OVO, but it will definitely be over 49p a month just for the weekend call package on your landline

Am only posting in case you want to consider something like this, you will find other deals with no contracts. You may not be interesting in saving money by regularly switching, i appreciate not everyone likes doing it especially as you get older , my 79 year old mum has become a regular switcher to save money on lots of things. 

I don’t think I suggested that OVO charges for the call.  What I am saying is that any company should have a freephone number.  Not a lot to ask in my humble opinion.