BT line rental - any other options?

mikeriley_2

Hi

We have just received our quarterly BT bill - for 3 months the bill was approx £42 but the cost of the calls was a mere £2 - the balance of approx £40 being for line rental.

As we mainly use mobile phones for calls (got loads of free mobile minutes) my understanding is that we just keep paying the line rental so we can have broadband (we are currently with orange paying £10 a month for our internet)

Is there any way in which we can opt for a package to get cheaper line rental or get this through someone else - it would appear that i am just throwing approx £12-£15/month to BT just so that i can get internet connection!
Thanks in advance
Mike

Heinz

Your BT line rental will be £10.50/month if you opt for paper-free billing (£1.25/month discount) and pay by Direct Debit (£1.50/month saving).

Please see the HERE link in my signature below too.

Steph998

Ive just discovered the Post Office for rental with no contract. (We wanted to reactivate a line for broadband only in my son flat. Some broadband companies offer deals where you rent the line from them...but BT charge a penalty to get out of their rental contract and swap providers.)

So, instead of renting from BT and being tied into a contract, we are reactivating the line and renting through the Post Office with no contract, then taking the Talk Talk option at £13.95 per month (for three months, then it goes up to £16.95.) This is the TOTAL cost we pay, it includes line rental. Obviously phone call costs would be on top of this, but my son uses his mobile and will not actually have a phone plugged in to the line.

Beware...BT dont like it if you swap line rental to someone like Talk Talk...they will make it difficult for you apparently, in way of penalty costs.

The Post Office are £10.95 for the line rental with NO contract, and lots of extras. Have a look at these websites

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/products/broadband/talk-global-evening-weekend

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/jump1;jsessionid=RUHCUQSDKMXK4FB2IGVUSPQUHRA0UQ2K?catId=68600711&mediaId=19300217

billsavings

Steph998 wrote: »

Ive just discovered the Post Office for rental with no contract. (We wanted to reactivate a line for broadband only in my son flat. Some broadband companies offer deals where you rent the line from them...but BT charge a penalty to get out of their rental contract and swap providers.)

So, instead of renting from BT and being tied into a contract, we are reactivating the line and renting through the Post Office with no contract, then taking the Talk Talk option at £13.95 per month (for three months, then it goes up to £16.95.) This is the TOTAL cost we pay, it includes line rental. Obviously phone call costs would be on top of this, but my son uses his mobile and will not actually have a phone plugged in to the line.

Beware...BT dont like it if you swap line rental to someone like Talk Talk...they will make it difficult for you apparently, in way of penalty costs.

The Post Office are £10.95 for the line rental with NO contract, and lots of extras. Have a look at these websites

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/products/broadband/talk-global-evening-weekend

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/jump1;jsessionid=RUHCUQSDKMXK4FB2IGVUSPQUHRA0UQ2K?catId=68600711&mediaId=19300217

If Talk Talk are such a good phone service why want they reactive lines?

The Post Office will soon get fed up with the likes of Talk Talk cherry picking their customers,and introduce an early cancellation fee as BT have done already.

Quentin

If they do that they won't get the customers!

Their current usp is no minimum contract.

Steph998

billsavings wrote: »

If Talk Talk are such a good phone service why want they reactive lines?

The Post Office will soon get fed up with the likes of Talk Talk cherry picking their customers,and introduce an early cancellation fee as BT have done already.

Who said they were 'good'?

But they're definitely cheap! OK, maybe they lack the technology to reactivate phone lines, but they seem to run a decent, comparable broadband and home phone service. As for rental...at the moment, I personally am taking advantage of the fact that the Post Office have no penalty fee and no contract. As for cherrypickers....that's their lookout, and they obviously know what goes on.

I've paid enough to 'Mr Monopoly' BT over the years to have absolutely no qualms about playing the system, as Martin Lewis himself encourages us all to do.

billsavings

Steph998 wrote: »

But they're definitely cheap! OK, maybe they lack the technology to reactivate phone lines,

Cheap is not always best you only have to read some recent threads about them.

They can reactive phone lines they just choose not to.

OldGreyFox

Steph998 wrote: »

Who said they were 'good'?

You did but have now removed it.:D

Steph998

billsavings wrote: »

Cheap is not always best you only have to read some recent threads about them.

They can reactive phone lines they just choose not to.

Personally, I'm not looking for 'best'. I'm looking for 'cheap'. Cheapest possible internet connection for a student. And actually, Talk Talk get a great write up, and is top of the list on Martin Lewis's top pick for broadband providers.

What's 'best' anyway? I've been with Orange for ten years, and they are crap in my opinion, an they are not cheap. Been offline more than I've had hot dinners.
( Admittedly until they brought back UK call centres, then things improved.)

Please provide a link to your comment ' They can reactive phone lines they just choose not to'.

Thanks!

Steph998

OldGreyFox wrote: »

You did but have now removed it.:D

I beg to differ!! I did not at any time say they were good, I may have edited my post for spelling reasons, but that is all.

So there.

:rotfl:

OldGreyFox

Steph998 wrote: »

I beg to differ!! I did not at any time say they were good, I may have edited my post for spelling reasons, but that is all.

So there.

:rotfl:

So your saying that i was imagining that you used the word good before you changed it . If only someone had quoted your original post before you amended it.:D