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Current cheapest option for 0870 calls
Hi, Yesterday I picked up one of the BT VP1000 home monitoring alarms, for the bargain price of £14.97 from PC World. To make use of the free trial subscription to the BT monitoring facility, I have to connect the control panel to my phone line - and it dials an 0870 number to report any alerts. I have a standard BT phone…
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Pipex Technical Help Issues? Does anyone have a Landline number?
My DD and I (different houses) are both in the process of changing landline, phone call and B/band providers. At the moment DD has everything with Pipex, while I have a BT line, Pipex calls, and Orange B/band. We signed up to the new provider on 17th Dec, and were immediately given an 'expected date' of 11th Jan for the…
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Advice needed please on phone/TV/broadband deals
I currently have a contract with Virgin Media which includes 'free' evenings/weekends calls, unlimited broadband and a basic TV package. This costs the exorbitant sum of £47 per month! I would like to take advantage of one of the much cheaper deals available, but there are some problems, and I must confess to being…
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Does she need a BT Line to switch from BT???? lol
Hi All. My mum is moving house. The house is currently empty and doesn't have an active phone line. The line was switched off when the previous owner left. She is moving in. in a month and wants to sort the phones out, she is a big fan of talk talk and wants to go over to them, Will she need to activate the line with BT…
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Help Post Office homephone are trying to charge me again for installing phone line!
Any help would be apprieciated here. Basically i signed up with post office homephone in a brand new flat which did not have a landline so they charged me £110 to install the line for me. I decided i would prefer to go to talktalk as i wanted broadband and it was cheaper so i phoned up post office to cancel as in there…
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Any advice please?
We are currently with BT for our phone and broadband, the contract is due to expire February so I am starting to think about a better deal. We are paying approx £50-55 a month to BT, this is for the phone (eveningand weekend calls free)and the broadband. We make quite a few calls to mobiles which bumps up the bill, and…
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CPS - What do PrimusSaver (or others) tell BT?
I wonder if anyone can help. I am organising my parents and want to take advantage of lower call charges by using PrimusSaver which we understand is a CPS and no long term contract. Question is, how do PrimusSaver contact BT and what paperwork is involved? Would it matter that the CPS (PrimusSaver) would be in a different…
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Check your BT bills for line rental - 4 months charge in one go
Dear All I am paperless on BT (on a calling plan which is free evenings/weekends which I took out 12 months ago on an 18 month contract) We have quite happily gone along for the last 12 months, paying £15 a month, which covered the line rental and the very few calls we make each month. Received the online bill today and we…
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BT not sticking to their payment arrangements
Allow me to rant here about stupid BT. It seems there are no phone lines in entire Aberdeen because every time I had to move flat in 2008 (twice, once in May and then September, ah, destiny of a private tenant), BT insisted on charging me the full line connection fee of £124.99. Anyway, I don't want to get into that issue…
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Switching between line rental providers on a BT line
A brief history: I've used various third-party call providers for many years, ending up with Talk Talk several years ago. I've never really had a problem with them. When BT started charging for 1571 I tried making a few calls via 1280, but decided last April to switch line rental to Talk Talk as well. All fine so far. Over…
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can i stop certain incoming calls on landline
is there any waY TO STOP CALLS INCOMING FROM "unknown " numbers and 0800 numbers its getting on my nerves im with tiscali for line rental and have caller id so dont bother to answer the phone when they ring....but i know on my mobile i can block any number so can it be done on a landline phone or is there a phone i can buy…
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Second line - move old number?
Hello, I'm looking for some advice. I've been living at my house for just over 3 years, but will be moving in with my boyfriend shortly. I hope to rent my house out (but that's for another thread!). His property is a farm so the phone line is a business one. Mine is a residential line. What I would like to do is install a…
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Cheapest landline for incoming calls
Hi there, What's the cheapest way of having a landline (020 for London) number if you're not planning to make calls from that line but may need to receive calls on it? Thanks!
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Cancelling BT rolling contract after 12 months
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has cancelled their BT 12 month rolling contract after 12 months, and if so how you went about it, do you have to write them a letter or can you just phone them up? I'm about 10 months into a rolling contract and want to cancel and go back to a package with no free calls, just in case…
