the main telephone company for the UK, has some lovely Price Increases:


From 1st August 2004, new prices will be introduced for the following services:

Ring Back - pay per use service will increase from 10p to 15p. With Calling Features, you can have unlimited use of Ring Back for just £1.75 a month.

Speaking Clock - cost of a call to the Speaking Clock (123) will increase from 10p to 20p.

Enhanced 1571 with Personalised Greeting or Message Alert - monthly rental fee will go up to £1.50

From 1st August 2004, a 6p fixed fee to the Call Return element of 1471

Light User Scheme
From 1st July 2004, the rental that Light User Scheme (LUS) customers pay will increase to £31.50 per quarter. Existing LUS customers will continue to receive a rebate where eligible.

Home Highway
From 1st July 2004, monthly rental for BT Together customers with Home Highway will increase by £1. This includes Standard Line Rental customers who will become BT Together Option 1 customers.

Lovely news !

Home Highway just wasnt expensive enough in the 1st place

However, BT Together Option 1 and BT Option 2 will go down £1 a month. Also it will go down from 6p per hour to a local or national call in the evening to 5.5p on Option 1.

BT Together 3 will go down £3 a month

So it's not all bad news is it!!!!!

Funny how you only mentioned the negative changes ain't it???
Last edited by john_hunter : 19-04-2004 at 20:11

Yeah i know about that , but you take the £1 off, then work out how much you end up paying for everything which has went up , you'll end up paying more than in first place!

Have you got statitics to prove this?

Say in a month:

You used 1 calling feature, thats 25p more

Use Ringback 3 times 15p more

Use 1471+3 3 times thats 18p

1571 with personal greeting 50p

Thats £1.08

So not really saving much, there price decrease aint to woderful!

People who just want a cheap line will be forced to have together option 1. This aint fair. many other companies offer calls cheaper e.g. Talk Talk

Im considering moving to IT Plus £5.75 line rental per month.£24 leaving fee from BT.There should be a lot more companys offering deals soon so im amazed by BTs recent price rises.I can only assume BT know that the majority of its customers will accept the rises and not even consider moving.

hmm, that seems quite good, anyone know of any other companies offereing the same service ? (or any reason why I shouldn't switch to itplus)

I don't make or receive any calls on my bt line, its just there for the adsl connection, according to the savings calulator I'd save £49.32, so its certainly worth switching

Ive not found any other companys yet but im sure others will follow.Only downside of joining is 12 month contract,£24 leaving fee from BT and you cant use prefix numbers for cheaper calls.