BT Basic Line Rental: Get a landline for £4.50/month

KimYeovil

(Stupid thanks button beside the quote button)

SwissToni wrote: »

What happens if you use a BT payment card to pay your bills, will it still cost the same £4.50/month or be more?

If you keep the payments on time, no, it does not cost extra. There is a surcharge of £3 (whether paying by card, cash or cheque) if you do not pay in time.

achnaalba

Well I am a full time carer looking after my 87 year mother who lives with me and I get carers allowance + Income Support element as it is called. I have signed up to this deal as it will save us money when having to get hold of the non existant doctor to discuss her medications. The Phone Number you have on the original information was not much good as I got someone in a foreign country who did not understand English and took me a while to understand her but eventually I got the direct phone number from her which is 0800800864. I spoke with a very helpful man who checked my account to assertain if it was whorth me switching to this deal and it is based on the calls I make. By the way Zumo please do leave the UK but before you go where is the free food and fuel avaialable because we do not get any and would to receive free food and fuel so kindly paid for by so called tax payers!

volunteerworker

Dear All, (DOES NOT APPLY TO SDA or DLA)

I have just been on the phone to BT to try to help some of my 'members' (Adults with Learning Disabilities) to get on this new tariff. One of my members was on Income Support but was taken off & put on Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA). BT do not consider her eligible for this deal. When we tried to add her husband to the account as he receives Income Support - we were unable to do this, we were told we would have to cancel the account & reconnect. However, we were told that the couple were on a contract until April 2009, under the BT rolling contract scheme. If you don't reply to a letter sent out a month before renewal, then heah presto you are signed up to ANOTHER year contract. How do adults with certain learning disabilities across the country read these?? Let us pray they have family/council/charity supporting them!

BT are a joke! BT Payment Services Limited - they are the people who process payments made by the poorest in the land. Those who pay by cheque/payment card/in the post office etc are entitled to pay a modest payment processing fee of £4.50 (VAT is not applicable to this fee, HAPPY DAYS). This is an insult to all those around the country who cannot use/have direct debits coming from their savings accounts etc. Why do the poorest people get hit by unnecessary charges all the time (e.g gas meters, electricity pre-payment cards etc)? Having worked in finance prior to moving to the voluntary sector I can tell you it does not cost £4.50 to process your payment.

So if you are disabled & only have a savings account - then you can thank BT for not allowing you on the cheaper deals but also thank them for charging you £4.50 for processing your payment. There is absolutely no justice, BT are robbing us.

Kind regards, ON

p.s to all those carers and support workers. Keep up the good work. Without you this country would collapse in on itself quicker than if there was another baning collapse.

I have just read something by ZUMO. Do some work with people with learning disabilities and you will realise what people are up against. I have never claimed any benefits in my life but that is not to say the poor, old, those incapacitated through illness do not deserve benefits. Phone lines are an ESSENTIAL part of many peoples lives who live on benefits. Please go back to listening to John Gaunt (not everyone on benefits is a dole-bludger, work-shy, tax dodging blagger!) Has Zumo even heard of Severe Disablement Allowance or Disability Living Allowance! Your OWN parents may even claim benefits (the shame!!! all your taxes going on helping the sick, elderly and your own parents!) such as attendance allowance.

superhans

Just called on the 0800 783 1675 number and got indian call center "would you like to change your providings", got the proper number from them, 0800 800 864, I wanted to check if it would work with broadband, and it only works with BT's broadband, not any one else's, I asked if it would work with O2, they said no, I also have a stopped line, with BT, if it has been stopped for more than 3 months there is a chance you may incurr the £124.99 connection fee, as after 3 months they remove the hardware from the phone exchange, she said you may get charged or not, she couldn't tell until the order went through, so you can only get broadband with the £10.50 BT package.

SwissToni_2

zumo wrote: »

What a cheek !.....Why should people on benifits get cheap BT.
Dont they get enough already.What about all the hard working tax payers.
Next it will be free food and fuel....in fact i think they do.
Think i might leave the country, come back with a different passport and claim the lot !
I wont go on any more, this makes me so angry.

Hey you're welcome to my life of crumbled joints, destroyed spine and constant extreme pain, all acquired from true hard work, any day of the week mate. I'd swap it in an instant. Count yourself damn lucky, life's far too short to be so bitter over so very little. You must really think most of the true claimants live the life of Riley. I personally hardly claim a damn thing, it's bitter individuals like you that want to make me blow my brains out just not to listen to your me me me uncaring crap anymore. Tell you what send me your address and I'll mail you a f*cking fiver each damn month just to shut you the hell up.:mad::mad::mad:

Graham1

For the BT site terms and conditions and pricing etc. for BT Basic the link is:

http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/Public/current/Cust_Opts_Res_boo/FrameworkImpl55289.htm#FrameworkImpl55289

It is interesting to note that once the £4.50/quarter inclusive call allowance to 01 and 02 numbers is used-up calls to 0845/0870 numbers are significantly cheaper than calls to 01 and 02 numbers.

mau408

Just a thought - you could use this with say www.18185.co.uk. With a connection fee of 5p each if you phoned UK landline you'd get 30 calls per month (90 per quarter) for an hour (I think - maybe 90minutes). Well that amounts to approx 6 calls a week for an hour. Almost one a day.
Dunno whether this would work but if it works could anyone let us know.

Mi_bargains

mau408 wrote: »

Just a thought - you could use this with say www.18185.co.uk. With a connection fee of 5p each if you phoned UK landline you'd get 30 calls per month (90 per quarter) for an hour (I think - maybe 90minutes). Well that amounts to approx 6 calls a week for an hour. Almost one a day.
Dunno whether this would work but if it works could anyone let us know.

If you go onto this package ALL calls must be through the BT network, i.e. 10p per minute after you have used your £1.50 per month. You will not be allowed to use any other companies to re-route your calls. BT have introduced this package for very low users (15 minutes or less per month).

ChemicalJasper

:mad: Sleath Taxes! :mad:

Its all well and good the government encouraging utility companies to provide social tariffs and free insulation etc to certain members of society, but I see this as nothing more than a Stealth Tax.

These big companies are not giving these things for free and I don't think the share holders will be paying - it it us the full price paying customers who are footing the costs.

I would rather be taxed at source so that it was up front and obvious rather than this new stealthier steath tax!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

littleboo

volunteerworker wrote: »

Dear All, (DOES NOT APPLY TO SDA or DLA)

With reference to the DLA, it's not a means tested benefit. You can be a company director on mega bucks, or an average person earning a reasonable wage, and still be in receipt of DLA for yourself or child. It clearly wouldn't be right in that case to then be eligible for a subsidised phone deal. Many people on DLA may be on a low income, but you can't say that anyone on DLA should be eiligible for this, as many people who don't have a genuine need for it would still benefit.