Cheapest Home Phones Article Discussion

Doc_N

thisisgil wrote: »

Does the recent BT price hike consitute an opportunity to request a release from a contract penalty free?

flexiblefish wrote: »

Now that BT have raised there prices from October, am I entitled to leave them without charge?

A good question. I'm sure Heinz knows the answer.

I'm torn at the moment between paying BT upfront for a year, which gives a monthly equivalent of £9.49, or waiting to see if there's another £3pm off deal going when my current contract expires in January.

JustPassingBy

Doc_N wrote: »

I'm torn at the moment between paying BT upfront for a year, which gives a monthly equivalent of £9.49, or waiting to see if there's another £3pm off deal going when my current contract expires in January.

Don't forget you lose the paper-free discount. Or you could decide using the bird i' th hand principle.

Doc_N

JustPassingBy wrote: »

Don't forget you lose the paper-free discount. Or you could decide using the bird i' th hand principle.

Thanks. Yes, the net amount I'm currently paying is £8.54pm after all discounts and with free evening/weekend calls.

This would increase to £9.49pm if I paid for a year ahead, or, if I wait until renewal it could be:

£13.29 less £3 (discount), less £1.25 (ebilling) = £9.04pm

On balance, probably worth waiting to renew in the normal way, and seeing what they're prepared to offer.

scroogess

Hello - when considering a cheap home phone remember the difficulty you might encounter when it goes wrong. We are with Yourcalls and our phone went out on Friday teatime. Noone works till Monday and it was Monday afternoon before they came back to us and it is now Tuesday afternoon and still nothing. No offer of transferring the calls to another number or help of any sort.
For £4.50 a month extra we could have a better repair service but that would defeat the object of the exercise of a cheap phone wouldn't it? Any suggestions for a cheap reliable phone system would be gratefully received preferably with inclusive daytime calls.

Malcmandy

Please be very careful if you switch to Primus. They are ok, as long as you don't have a problem.
THEN !!!! Customer Services is APPALLING. Lies are told. They wait for you to keep chasing them. You would be lucky to see a telephone engineer for 10 days - we are still waiting !

Very good on the apologising, and '' How else, may I help you?''
( ''SCREAM ! Just get my phone fixed ! '')

We have now started the transfer to another provider, based in England.

Sorry if this should be in the Vent forum.:mad:

JustPassingBy

scroogess wrote: »

For £4.50 a month extra we could have a better repair service but that would defeat the object of the exercise of a cheap phone wouldn't it? Any suggestions for a cheap reliable phone system would be gratefully received preferably with inclusive daytime calls.

Where does the £4.50 come from?

Moving to BT's Weekend/Evening 12 month renewable contract Plan would give you a £2.40 saving over Yourcall's Inclusive Plan. Two daytime calls a day with 18866/1899/18185 is £3. Is 60p a month worth it for reliability?

happy_gelfling

I've just changed my home phone to O2. (Previously had an 18 month lock in to BT to benefit from a discounted line installation - had to get away from Virgin!!)
You need to be an O2 mobile customer to get a competitive deal and you need to buy (or already have) the broadband, which they're currently offering 3 months free for new customers. (£7.50/month as standard for O2 mobile customers.)
I'm an existing broadband customer (since Oct 2008) and they have given me the 3 months free broadband discount for signing up to the phone package (one-year contract).
So I'm saving about £5 per month on BT just by comparing the line rental (free evenings & weekends calls packages + online billing in both cases), and that's before the free 3 months of broadband.
I have to say that the O2 customer service for the broadband has been great, so I am expecting the same from their phone line service. Worth paying an extra 50p per month (in comparison with Primus)?

RoxyK

I'm considering moving my home phone to O2 to as I use them for my mobile and broadband and find both excellent. Let us know how they do. I think I have a little bit left on my BT contract to go. BT would keep more customers if they didn't have stupid rules like making 2 calls a months to qualify for free 1571 and caller display!

hjsalts

Hi all,

I've not scrolled back through the length of this chain so apologies if it's already been covered but I'm looking for the best landline/broadband deal that doesn't require a 12 month or 18 month sign up term.

I'm about to move into a property that I may move out of in 6-8 months and wouldn't be able to take any deal with me--hence wanting to escape signing myself into a deal with in-built penalties now.

Thanks for your help,

hjsalts

Heinz

Post Office Home Phone.