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I'd much sooner have BB only , there's also a choice of VOIP providers who are considerably cheaper if you need a phone number.
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It's going up double that for line rental saver though. Up to £159.84 from £141. An increase of 13.4%.
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It's going up double that for line rental saver though. Up to £159.84 from £141. An increase of 13.4%.
http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=31936 Line rental will increase from £15.99 a month to £16.99 a month. Line Rental Saver will increase from £159.84 to £169.90. Friends & Family International will increase from £1.15 to £1.20. International Freedom will increase from £5.85 to £6.20 . Calling Features will increase to £3.70 (1 feature), £7.45 (2-4 features) or £9.95 (5 features). Set up fee for landline calls will increase from 15p to 15.97p. Call price per minute for landline calls will increase from 9p to 9.58p. Internet packages are also going up between £1 - £1.25 per month |
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It was increased earlier this year to £159.84 and will be £169.90 from 01/12/2014 - a 6.49% increase
http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=31936 I was going by this thread posted last week:- http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1999128 with this link:- http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6...-talktalk.html "BT Consumer has increased its saver option from £141 to £159.84 (monthly equivalent was £11.75 and is now £13.32). Standard monthly line rental is £15.99 per month." |
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Now I'm confused.
I was going by this thread posted last week:- http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1999128 with this link:- http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6...-talktalk.html "BT Consumer has increased its saver option from £141 to £159.84 (monthly equivalent was £11.75 and is now £13.32). Standard monthly line rental is £15.99 per month." What is confusing? |
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I think we should be putting pressure on our MP's etc to lobby Ofcom about these never ending increases, Sad thing is most of us will just roll over like little puppies.
BTW, this "call set up fee" the telcos worked for decades without seemingly not affecting income, how can they justify this as anything else but a money spinning scam? I can now be charged nearly 25p if I call someone on the landline and it goes onto voicemail. Thank god for my mobile. |
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BTW, this "call set up fee" the telcos worked for decades without seemingly not affecting income, how can they justify this as anything else but a money spinning scam? I can now be charged nearly 25p if I call someone on the landline and it goes onto voicemail.
Thank god for my mobile. For example 3 PAYG is 1ppm with NO setup costs
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It seems to cost me >25p for the shortest calls from a landline now......so (unless it is a free call time) I have taking to using my mobile - as it is FAR cheaper!!
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I can now be charged nearly 25p if I call someone on the landline and it goes onto voicemail.
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For example 3 PAYG is 1ppm with NO setup costs
![]() The current one is 3p/minute with no set up fee. |
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Use 18185 and a call to a landline costs just 5p regardless of duration !
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I used to use something like that but as I say I use the mobile. I am with TalkTalk and I am sure they don't allow that sort of thing anyway.
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Is that an old tariff?
The current one is 3p/minute with no set up fee. |
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My fault sorry! I mis-remembered what the 3/2/1 tariff bits applied to! You are correct at 3ppp!
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I'd be tempted to go 4G only, but I'd need to buy a freeview recorder to replace my BT Vision box.
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I think we should be putting pressure on our MP's etc to lobby Ofcom about these never ending increases, Sad thing is most of us will just roll over like little puppies.
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BTW, this "call set up fee" the telcos worked for decades without seemingly not affecting income, how can they justify this as anything else but a money spinning scam? I can now be charged nearly 25p if I call someone on the landline and it goes onto voicemail.
Not a scam at all, it's the direct effect of legislation and Ofcom.Phone companies used to charge based on distance, local calls were cheap, trunk calls more expensive, international calls cost a fortune (£5-£10 per minute just to call another European country). That maybe had some justification in the days of old mechanical switches and operator-controlled calls, when long distance calls used more equipment. With modern electronic systems everyone, including the phone companies, knew that most of the cost of a phone call is in the equipment at each end, and the signalling used for call setup. The actual difference in cost to call, say, Glasgow-London, or Glasgow-Paris, is only pennies more than a call from Glasgow-Edinburgh. The phone companies continued to charge more for long distance, which was used to keep local call costs down, until Ofcom and EU legislation banned them from such cross-subsidies. It's no longer legal to use the high charges from long-distance calls to offset the cost of local equipment and line rental, each part of the service has to pay its own way. End result: line rental goes up to align with the actual cost of maintaining the lines, long-distance and international call prices drop so much that there's no longer any point in charging different prices for local and long-distance. Instead each bit of the system will be charged for according to it's use, hence the break-out of line rental, call setup, etc. No scam, just the practical result of banning cross-subsidies. Of course people that never made long-distance or international calls don't see any benefit there, they just see the other end of the seesaw. Quote:
Thank god for my mobile.
That'll be going up soon too, now that they can't use the "international roaming" scam to charge you a fortune when you're abroad, and subsidise national calls. Roaming costs almost nothing, so the extra charges are now capped by EU law.
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I think we should be putting pressure on our MP's etc to lobby Ofcom about these never ending increases, Sad thing is most of us will just roll over like little puppies.
BTW, this "call set up fee" the telcos worked for decades without seemingly not affecting income, how can they justify this as anything else but a money spinning scam? I can now be charged nearly 25p if I call someone on the landline and it goes onto voicemail. Thank god for my mobile. |
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Cant say in surprised. It's the same every year. BT, Sky, Virgin, whatever mobile provider you're with. Every year a price rise to 'improve services' that never improve. At least VM tend to offset price rises with a speed increase.
I got rid of BT last year. My mum was on BT basic but I paid for it and I just forgot to cancel it after she passed away. They neglect to tell you when you take BT basic that if you don't make calls you get charged a set charge for not calling anyone. When I did cancel it it took over 4 months and in the end I had to email the CEO just to get it cancelled. There was error after error and their CS were a few steps down from useless. I use voipfone now. Pay them £2 a month for a local area number for others to ring and have topped up a total of £10 in the year I've had it. I just use mobile for making calls. And VM for Internet. |
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Well finally making the switch, activations the 15th September, im going from a BT line, with Skys LLU broadband that only gets me 6Mb, and costing £31 a month (all in), to, a Sky line, + 40Mb Sky Fibre (where im estimated to get between 32-39Mb, with a guarantee of no lower than 27.3Mb) at only £25.40 (all in) for the first 6 months, then £35.40 (all in) after that.
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Well finally making the switch, activations the 15th September, im going from a BT line, with Skys LLU broadband that only gets me 6Mb, and costing £31 a month (all in), to, a Sky line, + 40Mb Sky Fibre (where im estimated to get between 32-39Mb, with a guarantee of no lower than 27.3Mb) at only £25.40 (all in) for the first 6 months, then £35.40 (all in) after that.
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That won't affect me, as my phones on my other line, this ones just for my BB.
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That won't affect me, as my phones on my other line, this ones just for my BB.
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I see BT are to start a new Line Rental Plus service from 1st December.
http://www.broadband.bt.com/line-ren...linerentalplus They are also to stop the processing fee for customers that don't pay by direct debit but do make up for the stopping of the processing fee most of the BT packages and calls are going up in price. My BT contracts will be almost up my the end of the year. Darren |
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I see BT are to start a new Line Rental Plus service from 1st December.
http://www.broadband.bt.com/line-ren...linerentalplus They are also to stop the processing fee for customers that don't pay by direct debit but do make up for the stopping of the processing fee most of the BT packages and calls are going up in price. My BT contracts will be almost up my the end of the year. Darren
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Sky line rental going up by £1 from 1st December, no changes to BB prices though, so ill only be paying 10p a week more than i was paying on BT, and then when their price increase comes in, also on the 1st december, i'll be paying 60p a month less
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