new BT line - minimum contract period

When I got mine in March they said 3 months, I have successfully cancelled it this week (think you have to give 7 days notice) so it can't be a year. The house already had a line installed though.

These charges imply that there may be: (from new terms from 1st Oct)

35. The charges for ending any BT Together service for either a new line or a line that you take over are as follows:

* for a new line where you end the service within the first nine months, £18.00;
* for a line that you take-over and where you end the service within the first month, £13.00; and,
* for a line that you take-over and where you end the service within the second month, £5.00.

These charges do not apply for a customer moving to more expensive options i.e. from BT Together Option 1 to Options 2 or 3 and between BT Together Option 2 and Option 3.

Maybe you should stick with telewest and give them a call to see if they can do you a deal like a lot of other moneysavers:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=77342
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=62656

I moved into a brand new flat and has a New Bt line installed and had to sign up for a 12 month contact!!
BTW your find that in order to get telewest telephone you will require a BT phone line (well you do here anyway)

bbb_uk wrote:

You would save money if you moved just your linerental from telewest to BT and used the many, many other cheaper providers that can be accessed via a BT line and you can still do this during your minimum term with BT.

The only thing you are prevented from doing is moving your linerental away from BT but you can, from day one, move just your calls to any of the numerous and cheaper providers out there. All of which are cheaper than telewest/NTL. In fact, even BT are cheaper than Telewest/NTL!

In the longrun, you'll most likely find this cheaper than sticking with expensive telewest/NTL.

Or get rid of digital TV and get freeview and get rid of the landline all together and use VOIP for calls so all you'll have to pay telewest is for broadband. Get a free sipgate telephone number and use something like VOIPdiscount for free calls - topup 10 euros every 120 days. This is our new plan with ntl, just need to get an adapter that allows the use of both sipgate and VOIPdiscount now to connect our old phone to the router so we can turn off the pc.

Then keep calling telewest for deals to keep the cost of broadband down.

So could you get a new phone line installed, then give them notice to cancel it, maybe pay £11 for the first month and pay £18 = £24?

Wouldn't have to pay the entire contract (£11 x £12) + £18 = £145?

I had to do this with BT broadband once - few years ago now. Had signed up for a 12 month contract, after a few months my financial circumstances dramatically changed, I had to move and go and stay with family for a while as I couldn't afford to continue renting. My family already had BT broadband themselves. So I phoned them up and asked what my options were, they said I had to pay the remainder of the year if I wanted to cancel (was around £250 i think), I asked if I could transfer it to another phoneline (a friend or something) they said I could only transfer it to a BT line in my name! They didn't care at all, all they wanted was their money for the remainder of the contract. I just burst into tears as I just couldn't afford to pay it and it upset me as they weren't even the slightest bit understanding or helpful, and I was lost for words and at a loss of what to say or do. Was at my boyfriends (ex now) parents at the time, think his mum felt sorry for me and took the phone off me, had a go at them and then paid it for me.

- sorry got carried away on that story .. lol