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BT to increase Minimum Call Charge for Residential Customers
gt94sss2
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The BT minimum charge per call for residential customers is to increase to 4.6pence (ex VAT) from the 1 April 2006.
It is currently 4.2pence (ex VAT)
The Minimum Call Charge of 4.6 pence (ex VAT) will apply to all Residential calls except for the following call types, or unless otherwise stated in the relevant section of the Price List.
* Freefone calls.
* UK Evening and Weekend geographic calls where the pence per minute (ppm) rate has been set to zero for the first hour of each call (or to such calls which start within the uncharged period but end after the uncharged period).
* Fixed rate UK calls on BT Together Option 1.
*Fixed fee calls.
*Calls Charged by Time duration which start with a Fixed fee.
Regards
Sunil
It is currently 4.2pence (ex VAT)
The Minimum Call Charge of 4.6 pence (ex VAT) will apply to all Residential calls except for the following call types, or unless otherwise stated in the relevant section of the Price List.
* Freefone calls.
* UK Evening and Weekend geographic calls where the pence per minute (ppm) rate has been set to zero for the first hour of each call (or to such calls which start within the uncharged period but end after the uncharged period).
* Fixed rate UK calls on BT Together Option 1.
*Fixed fee calls.
*Calls Charged by Time duration which start with a Fixed fee.
Regards
Sunil
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I've not heard of this before Sunil - do you have a link?
Their excuse will probably be 'rationalisation' because, in effect, it increases their daytime minimum call charge (currently 5p incl. VAT) to equal the 5.5p/hour evening rate for an 01/02 call of up to an hour.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
Heinz wrote:I've not heard of this before Sunil - do you have a link?
Here is the one from the BT Price list
(Sadly, I don't have as much time to post as I once did....)
Regards
Sunil0 -
BT are really taking the mick this time! I am amazed that they've got the cheek to do this after increasing the line rental for BT Together Option 1 customers by 50p per month from 01/01/06. Looking at the above price list, the minimum charge for business customers is going up to 5p plus VAT, even higher than residential customers. By doing this, they are also taking an extra half a penny every quarter from each customer having free caller display from BT Privacy but CPS the calls elsewhere. It all adds up!0
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I notice that BT are increasing residental min call charge from 1/4/2006 . From 4.2p to 4.6p ex vat
The cost of local and national business geographic calls is also going up, but not Ngn 0845 and 0870 calls which remain the same as present. So local will be 4/1/1p from 3.36/0.85/0.85 and national 8/4/1.5p from 6.73/3.36/1.27p. These changes also apply to discount schemes which are a percentage of the basic rates, such as BT Corporate Choices0 -
That's 5.41p inc VAT!gt94sss2 wrote:The BT minimum charge per call for residential customers is to increase to 4.6pence (ex VAT) from the 1 April 2006.
Why is it that month after month there are increases? Why is it that the Office of Incompetency keeps allowing price rises? Overall, are we any better off than when BT had a monopoly and there were no other providers to 'choose' from?0 -
BT now round up their call charges to the nearest half-penny.
So i assume you must round up the ex-VAT cost to the nearest half-penny, so for any call incurring just the minimum charge, 4.6p becomes 5p ex. VAT, which then becomes 5.9p inc. VAT0 -
So the current minimum charge which is 5p (inc VAT) isn't 5p then?!utilitybroker wrote:BT now round up their call charges to the nearest half-penny.
Excluding VAT it's 4.2p, which is, presumably, rounded up to 4.5p. Add VAT and you get 5.29p.0 -
Since the 1/10/05 probaly not.
The BT Call Pricing guide says i quote:
"The call pricer is a guide only to calculating the cost of a call. Call prices are rounded to half a penny.
From the 1st October 2005, the calculation for determining the call charges for selected call types will be changed from rounding up to one tenth of a penny, to rounding up to half a penny."
So if i am calculating it correctly since the 1/10/2005 it looks like the min call charge inclusive of vat is 5.29p.0 -
But on my latest bill (29 December) the cost of calls are shown to the nearest tenth of a penny. The total cost of calls is also shown to the nearest tenth of a penny. So when does this rounding take place?utilitybroker wrote:The BT Call Pricing guide says i quote:
"The call pricer is a guide only to calculating the cost of a call. Call prices are rounded to half a penny.
From the 1st October 2005, the calculation for determining the call charges for selected call types will be changed from rounding up to one tenth of a penny, to rounding up to half a penny." 0 -
I will call the BT call pricing dept tomorrow and see if they can clarify this.0
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