I read this week that B.T intend to increase cost of some of their packages and landlines.
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Better to look around and see what's out there before it's time to renew if you have a landline package coming to an end. I have free calls anytime, which I rather think has been a good deal for me the past couple of years. I also paid upfront for a year for my landline.This suited me very well. I don't know what package would give comparable value for free anytime calls. I have broadband separately with plusnet and think they are very good also so I would only be needing a good phone package.
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BT have only in October increased their prices on line rental and other costs.
They have a huge pensions blackhole, which they seem to think their customers should fill. Sadly the shareholders seem to be exempt from buffering this!!
I also suspect that BT are losing customers to their rivals and this also requires them to fill the shortfall in their earnings by increasing their costs.
I genuinely feel sorry for those whom live in areas where there is not choice and BT are the only provider, they are being forced to subsidise the business.
Hi Instinct, good to see you around
We're BT customers which although the deal we have is OK we have very little choice as we live out in the sticks.
I'm interested in one of the Virgin packages but no luck there as they don't tend to cater for us countryside dwellers, well not yet anyway.
I guess it's the penalty for living in the midst of nowhere, still I hope one day BT will have more competition in our area.
I've got the same problem Lillie, and it bugs me that my broadband costs are the same as everyone elses when my top speed is 0.9mg..feel really spoilt when I stay with my friend in another part of the country who gets 18mg (and pays the same as I do!!)
Our speed is only a little better than yours Jazzj and yes I do agree that we shouldn't have to pay quite as much as those who have super speeds.
I would like to see more competition in our are in a hope that it would force some sort of price comparison.
Simple solution dont stand for it change suppliers.
Go to www.homephonechoices.com and if you book through them you get line rental for only £6.48 a month with Primus.
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Hi instinct i have sky for the lot i.e high speed broadband sky entertainment package excluding the movies as i prefer to go to the cinema and have the unlimited card and my phone line is with them and all the calls to landline 24/7 free i pay £60 a month for the lot which i'm told by my friend that works in bt is a very good package. I did have virgin before it and prefer sky and the sky customer services. I hope that helps you..
I'm with O2.
Landline, free offpeak calls at evenings and weekends and unlimited 'up to 20Mb' broadband (seems to be around 8Mb when I've tested it) all for £18.75 a month.
Oh, and they have freephone numbers to UK based call centres too. And I've never had to wait more than 2 minutes before my call's been answered.
I can't say a bad thing about them!
Thank you for that G-man, but do the calls outwith the offpeak times not put the cost right up?
I tend not to call between 6am and 5.59pm, so I've not had to pay for a phone call for a long time! I think the all-inclusive package is only an extra £2 a month though if you do make daytime calls.
What you can do is get a separate phone line and then get truly unlimited calls using www.vonage.co.uk which is very cheap - no having to hang up after an hr - you can talk til yr ears turn blue! lol
Other then that there are providers which allow you to make calls using yr phone/internet connection - more info on www.moneysavingexpert.com
I've just rejoined BT after a disasterous time with Talk Talk. I paid £120 for 1 year rental up front [it rises to about £14.30 pm. on 4th. Dec] I pay £20 p.m. for Broadband and Anytime calls. Add to that I get £10 p.m. off for the first 3 months.The service so far has been great; real people to talk to no automated lines which then crash after 20 minutes, and it is faster too!
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thank you Parchester, that is enlightening.
Hi instinct,
If you want to save on your calls, the cheapest line rental is with Primus as long as you do it via www.homephonechoices.co.uk at £6.49 per month, and then sign up to www.18185.co.uk - all UK calls (other then the 5p connection fee) are FREE!
And their international call rates are very competitive for eg calls to USA landline and mobile phone are only a half pence a minute.
Or use a skype enabled mobile phone from 3 network (they're pretty cheap these days and even cheaper on gumtree.com) so that anyone can call you or you them for free anywhere in the world, just as long as they're on skype; once yve bought the phone you dont ever have to top up again.
Other then that Skype offer unlimited package for £5.49p