How to Cancel BT Home Phone Contract??

messytechie

Hello all, first post!

I've used the search but I couldnt find anything...

I've been in a BT Home Phone 12 month contract since March 2008, but I'm going travelling in October and so need to cancel the contract.

Phoned BT and they've told me that I can either pay up the rest of the contract (86ish pounds) or transfer the contract to another house (still in my name tho!), which will then start another 12 month contract.

Obviously I don't want to pay this, and I cant transfer it to another house. Also they said I can't transfer it to another name.

My plan is to cancel the direct debit and then go off travelling for a year. Are there any implications of this? Obviously they'll try to get the money off my but I'll be long gone on a beach somewhere.... :beer:

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

P.S. if anyone's gonna reply with "well you signed up to a 12 month contract so you should pay the full amount" I'd like to remind you that BT run a monopoly over the UK phone network, and the place I moved into had to have a line installed, so I HAD to go with grubby BT.

Farway

An obvious pitfall will be a black mark on your credit record for 6 years, this will show on credit reports & searches if you apply for credit or loan, mortgage etc

However if you are going for years and can sleep knowing you are dishonest, then go right ahead

littleboo

messytechie wrote: »

P.S. if anyone's gonna reply with "well you signed up to a 12 month contract so you should pay the full amount" I'd like to remind you that BT run a monopoly over the UK phone network, and the place I moved into had to have a line installed, so I HAD to go with grubby BT.

They don't, and so you didn't.

Heinz

As littleboo says, BT no longer has a monopoly. You could have chosen any of the 'line providers' now in the market to connect the line. Ofcom insist that Openreach provides that service to all of them.

OTOH, only one of them doesn't similarly require customers to agree to a 12 month contract AFAIK so you'd have had to have done some research initially if you knew at that time you were off travelling.