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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Evaluating 191 reviews, reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers consistently praise the staff for being friendly, knowledgeable, patient, and efficient, often highlighting their helpfulness in resolving issues. The customer service is frequently described as top-notch, with many appreciating the quick response times and the smooth process from start to finish. People found the service excellent, with easy setup and a user-friendly experience, making transitions straightforward and hassle-free. However, some customers experienced significant delays in getting their service operational, leading to extended periods without a working phone line. A few people also reported issues with the answering machine service, stating it never worked and resulted in lost business due to unreceived messages. Additionally, some reviewers mentioned problems with call quality, experiencing frequent cut-outs that made conversations difficult.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I can’t recommend Phonely highly enough. Their service is excellent — but what really sets them apart is their customer support, which is genuinely second to none. A huge thank you to Zoe King fo... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We recently moved ISP and as our new provider didn't offer a landline we discovered Phonely. The whole process went smoothly and any queries were answered quickly and inn a friendly manner. Phone... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I recently signed up with Phonely. Customer service and keeping me informed has been excellent. Today was my switchover day and there was a slight technical problem. I was able to get through within a... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I currently have BT phone and broadband as well as 5G internet as BT speed is pathetic. Took the decision to try Phonely but wanted to test Phonely sysytem before transferring my home phone number. Sy... See more

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  1. Telecommunications Service Provider

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Phonely with CallGuard is an easy-to-switch VoIP home phone system that protects those who feel vulnerable, against fraudulent and scam callers. Phonely's comprehensive suite of features goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring that you and your loved ones can communicate with confidence.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I had my query dealt with promptly in…

I had my query dealt with promptly in a pleasant and helpful manner.

2 June 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for your kind review. We're delighted to hear that your query was handled promptly and that you found our team pleasant and helpful. Providing fast, friendly support is something we work hard to deliver, so it's great to know we met your expectations.

Thank you for choosing Phonely.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Quick response

Quick response, problem sorted quickly

2 June 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for your review! We're delighted to hear that our team was able to respond quickly and get the issue resolved for you. Providing fast, effective support is something we take pride in, and we appreciate you taking the time to share your experience.

Best wishes
The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Have needed technical support

Have needed technical support, reason for issues were highlighted and because of limitations at my end Phonely were able to assist with a price adjustment. Chat web worked well.

2 June 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for your review! We're glad our support team was able to identify the cause of the issue and work with you to find a fair solution.

It's also great to hear that our chat support worked well and helped make the process smoother. We appreciate your feedback and your trust in Phonely, and we're always here if you need any further assistance.

Best wishes
The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Customer service amazing from start to…

Customer service amazing from start to finish

Landline number transferred to Phonely on the date scheduled. Any queries I called the customer service team, nothing was a problem.
Downloaded the app and now can make and receive calls on my mobile as well as my landline.

Would recommend Phonely to anyone wanting to change their landline provider.

26 May 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you so much for your wonderful review, we’re delighted to hear that your experience with Phonely has been excellent from start to finish.

It’s great to know your landline number transferred smoothly on the scheduled date and that our customer support team were able to assist you whenever you had a query. We always aim to make the process as simple and stress‑free as possible, so your feedback means a lot.

We’re also really pleased you’re enjoying the flexibility of the Phonely app, allowing you to make and receive calls on your mobile as well as your landline. It’s a feature many customers love once they start using it.

Thank you for recommending Phonely, we truly appreciate it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

Excellent. It works. And customer service is excellent. Minor problems were immediately sorted out

28 May 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you so much for your kind words, we’re delighted to hear you’ve had an excellent experience with Phonely. It’s great to know everything is working well for you and that any minor issues were resolved quickly by our support team.

Providing friendly, and effective customer service is something we take real pride in, so your feedback means a lot to us.

If you ever need anything in the future, we’re always here to help.

Best wishes,
The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great customer service and easy to use dashboard

Setup was easy but once I'd connected everything, I was getting "number not recognised" trying to dial in. Spent a while on the chat to Katie explaining things and getting some photos of the connections. She tried a few things and after a few minutes things started working - not sure if things took time to sync up or something else. Anyway problem solved and I really like the dashboard which is easy to understand.

27 May 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We’re really glad to hear that you found the setup straightforward and that you’re enjoying the simplicity of the dashboard.
We really appreciate your patience during the troubleshooting and your kind words about our customer service. If you ever need anything else, our team is always here to help.

Best wishes
The Phonely Team

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great service.

Been a Phonely customer for almost 2 years now and the service has been great with absolutely no issues.

No nuisance callers just a great service, I would give 5 stars, but I am frustrated Phonely don’t offer 3 way calling as well as some other VoIP services which I previously had with Vonage.

22 May 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, and for being a Phonely customer for almost two years. We’re really pleased to hear that your service has been reliable, hassle‑free, and free from nuisance callers. That’s exactly what we aim to deliver.

We understand your frustration around the absence of traditional 3‑way calling. However, we do offer a unique “Trusted Person” Live Call Joining feature on our CallGuard packages, which allows pre‑nominated friends or family to join a call to assist with suspicious activity or help verify a conversation.

I’ll pass your feedback on to our technical team to see whether 3‑way calling is something we can look to include in the future as we continue improving our service.

Thank you again for your review and for choosing Phonely.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

So far experience has been poor and slow

Since asking to port over to Phonely we are still waiting since the 30th April. Stated max of 14 days. Also as of today apparently service is suspended. unable to make any calls. Offices are only open Monday until Friday. its a saturday. So far not a good or reliable service in any shape or form.

16 May 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We're sorry to hear about your experience and understand how frustrating the delays and service disruption must have been.

In your case, the porting process was unfortunately delayed because the original provider advised that the number was not held with them. This meant we had to carry out additional investigations and submit a different type of porting request to identify the correct provider and progress the transfer. While this is an uncommon situation, we appreciate that it extended the timescales beyond our usual expectations.

We also recognise that you were impacted by a service outage that occurred over the weekend. Although our technical team was able to identify and resolve the issue within approximately 90 minutes, we understand that any downtime can be disruptive, particularly when it affects your ability to make calls.

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused and appreciate your patience while these issues were being resolved. If there's anything further we can do to assist, please don't hesitate to contact our support team.

Kind regards
The Phonely Team

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

I signed up with Phonely mainly due to…

I signed up with Phonely mainly due to the fact they could port over my old landline number when I wished to stay with my internet provider who sadly no longer provided a landline/ VOIP.

I paid the annual cost to get the free adapter.

Since becoming a Phonely customer at the end of January till the end of April my phone service has been extremely poor.....despite contacting Phonely by chatbot,email and phone my service has remained extremely poor! I've been told its my internet providers fault,I've done latency and jitter tests etc etc Whilst the folk I've spoken too,contacted etc have been pleasant to put it bluntly they've been bloody useless!!

That is until I got some one called Katie at the end of April. Katie was able to diagnose my problem ( no waffle) knew exactly what the acronym meant that id been quoted ( some had no idea what the letters meant they'd quoted to me) was the problem Katie provided tha answers and rectified the problem Its a shame I dont know her surname as after 3 months of hassle she was able to correct it within a fairly short phone call.She should be commended. I think your call staff require further technical training.

On a positive note thank you Katie

Diane Neale

27 April 2026
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have been putting in numbers from…

I have been putting in numbers from my phone that had called me on phonely & had left a comment on phonely about an unknown number & had left a comment on it too.

Now everytime i put a different number that had called me in on google to search for the different number the new number pops up sometimes with the comment on phoney that i had just left of the first different number to say i have jusr left of the second number i tried to find out from anyone who had the number how can this be.

Maybe phonely are scammers as of to use it to get customers too as of to pay for their services to track numbers & to give you any information about it on which might not be legitimate help too.

Would i pay for their services even though thw website looks good & legitimate too no i wouldn't as i had left one comment on one number only & as it said i had left a comment on a second number i was trying to find on google of it on there was something just wrong about it on which tells me the company is false & maybe the reviews are false too.

If in doubt you can do without it on so look for a better company to track calls on where they have called from even though they are a nuisance to find & a waste of time & precious energy to find them out for ourselves & sometimes with no results too. They will all get their comeuppance one day, so don't be like them too.

30 April 2026
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

if you have to have voip phonely is a plug and play simple solution

like many uk people i m very unhappy about loosing a phone line to the digital inferior voip system. our village has no mobile signal frequent power cuts in the winter and so going digital is loosing an emergency phone line.

i tried a well known competitor whose nAAme i wont mention, spent hours trying to get the service to work, spent hours trying to get them to stop charging me for calls that were not being made, took hours to try and cancel the "service" not to even mention the brisk and almost dismissive tech support.

so Phonely, by comparison was a delight, where my previous non voip provider couldn't configure the box and ended up blaming starlink Phonely confirmed it would be fine, and immediate connection no problem.

do i want voip no, do i think phonely are a good provider, it very much seems so thus far.

15 April 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thanks for sharing your experience Stephen, we really appreciate it.

We understand the concerns many people have around the switch to digital landlines, especially in areas with limited coverage or power reliability. It’s great to hear that you found Phonely quick to set up and working smoothly straight away, even where others couldn’t get things configured properly.

We put a lot of focus on making our service genuinely plug-and-play, with clear setup and responsive support, so it’s really encouraging to hear that came through. If we can be of any further assistance, please do get in touch.

Best wishes,

The Phonely team.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Answering machine service has never…

Answering machine service has never worked, and I have well over 100 messages over the past several months that I am unable to listen too.

I am aware that this has cost me business, and I am also aware that Phonely have done nothing to rectify the problem.

So paying for a service I am not getting, lost business, and a company that has no explanation for the constant issues regarding their, I will assume cloud based answering phone services.

It has never worked, it is annoying me, and I will need to find another provider altogether, one where I am receiving the messages, and not losing business.

Phonely, there is no need to reply to this review, I will not listen to you, and you have not dealt with the problem since I first brought it up with you about 7-8 months ago.

Personally, I should just sue you, because the lost business is substantial, just from lost messages that I have never been able to pick up. This to some companies will look like they are being ignored.

Thanks Phonely. An overwhelming positive amount of reviews, TrustPilot has advised, regarding you.

I am astonished that you have such an "Overwhelming" amount of positive reviews, considering my experience with your glitches, costly ones too.

Do not respond here, because I am unable to respond. If you are allowed to respond, then the individual leaving the review about you, should also be able to reply to your comment. So do not bother, you cannot convince me. UK business in general is not very convincing and will take your money and run.

That is the impression I get from UK business in this era.

15 April 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very easy to deal with

Very easy to deal with . Laura has communicated with me and helped me at every step . 1st class company with 5* staff . A company is only as good as it’s staff
I have changed my mother from the worst company I have ever dealt with ( talk talk ) to what appears to be the best ( phonely )
Well done

1 April 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you so much for your kind words! We’re delighted to hear that Laura was able to support you every step of the way, we’ll be sure to pass on your feedback to her.

It means a lot to us that you’ve trusted Phonely with your mother’s service, and we’re committed to continuing to deliver the high standard you’ve experienced so far.

Welcome to Phonely, and thanks again for choosing us!

Best wishes

The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

excellent

very helpful and friendly people to talk to helped me with a phone problem I had now all good

1 April 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for the great review!

We’re really pleased to hear our team could help sort your phone issue and that everything’s working well now.
If you need anything in the future, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Best wishes,

The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

from my initial enquiry to yesterday's…

from my initial enquiry to yesterday's completion. I have been treated with frienliness and profesionalism. I have had elongated conversations with Mark and Shaun. Both are assets to the company and indeed to themselves. Following their guidance I have signed up with Phonely.

31 March 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for such a thoughtful review!

We’re delighted to hear that your experience from initial enquiry through to completion was both friendly and professional. Mark and Shaun will be especially pleased to receive your kind words, we agree they’re a real asset to the team.

We’re so glad you chose to sign up with Phonely and look forward to supporting you going forward.

Best wishes

The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Laura

Had to call for a technical issue was sorted in minutes by Laura,, absolute diamond great customer experience

27 March 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for your fantastic feedback!

We’re so pleased to hear Laura was able to resolve your issue so quickly, we’ll be sure to pass on your feedback, it’ll make her day!

Best wishes,

The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very helpful

24 March 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you for your review, Dina.

We’re really pleased to hear you’ve had a positive experience with the team so far. If you need anything, we’re always here to help.

Best wishes

The Phonely team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Thank you PHONELY and KATIE .

I was not aware until today when we switched to Virgin Media FTTP , that it was possible to keep our normal handsets / Answering machine AND our telephone number .

Thank you PHONELY , for offering such a great service .

Katie dealt with my online chat , and after I asked her , she kindly took care of our order for us .

Katie explained everything to me and was patient whilst I looked on line at the different options offered .

Thanks to Katie we will now be keeping our “ old “ number and handsets etc .

Thank you PHONELY for offering such a unique and important service , and employing such wonderful staff .

Thank you Katie for all your helpful friendly and professional service .

You are a credit to your employers .

Kind regards

Mr Girvan Lyons .

23 March 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thank you so much for your thoughtful and detailed review, Mr Lyons. It truly means a lot to us.

We’re delighted to hear that your switch to Virgin Media FTTP went smoothly and that you were able to keep your existing number and handsets. That’s exactly what we aim to make possible, so it’s great to know the service made a real difference for you.

I’ll be sure to pass your kind words on to Katie, she’ll be thrilled to hear how much you appreciated her support. We pride ourselves on taking the time to make everything clear and straightforward, so it’s wonderful to hear she delivered that experience.

Thank you again for choosing Phonely and for taking the time to share your experience. If you ever need anything in future, we’re always here to help.

Best wishes,

The Phonely Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Just joined the company as a customer

Just joined the company as a customer, very positive experience, everyone courteous, polite and knowledgeable, patient.. so far so good

20 March 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thanks so much for your kind review and for choosing Phonely!

We’re really pleased to hear you’ve had such a positive experience with the team so far. If you need anything as you get set up, we’re always here to help.

Best wishes

The Phonely team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Had a problem making outgoing calls

Had a problem making outgoing calls, contacted support by mobile phone, call was answered within 2 minutes by Laura, who recommended power down and reconnect, which resolved the problem. Meanwhile Laura had connected my landline to a different server, all now working. Very good and efficient service!

17 March 2026
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Reply from Phonely

Thanks so much for your review!

We’re really glad Laura was able to get everything sorted quickly and keep things running smoothly for you. We’ll be sure to pass on your kind words to her.

Great to hear everything’s working well again, and as always, we’re here if you need anything!

Best wishes,

The Phonely team

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