High BT Bills

highguyuk

Hi,

Looking for a bit of help. I live at home with my parents, and contribute towards the phone bill. I have tried several ways to get the phone bill reduced, such as simple things like trying to get her to set up a DD saving £12 a year from BT or paperless billing etc to no avail. I see people talking about other numbers of prefixs they use to get discounted rates - there is no option to switch to another provider.

The last bill was:
Cost of Calls £38.89
Your benefits -£1.79
Service charges £29.36
One-off charges £5.00 (Late Payment, tut tut)
VAT £11.63
Total now due £83.09
And this is on BT Together Option 1. 50% of the calls were to mobiles (my calls mostly)

This was our worst for a while. The previous bill broke down like this:
Cost of Calls £20.77
Your benefits -£0.54
Service charges £29.36
VAT £8.68
Total now due £58.27
71% of calls to mobiles.

I also use AOL for my internet, which I alone pay for.

Is there anyway to reduce these bills basically? I would need quite a bit info on these and how they work etc because the "big bosses" would need persuading ... but any help would be much much appreciated.

Heinz

If they don't want to help themselves by using MSE advice (use CPS or prefix) why bother trying to convince them?

IMHO, the no-aggro solution is for YOU to sign up for 18185, use that prefix yourself - for your calls to mobiles - and then pay that bill yourself.

Your parents are then left with what is ... er ... left - without your calls to mobiles.

Having said that, I'd have one last try - signing up for Primus Saver 2 would give free UK 01/02 calls every evening and weekend - no codes to dial, just a DD to set up. They charge 2p/minute for weekday UK 01/02 calls and, as BT charge 3p/minute, that's an instant 50% saving on those calls too.

highguyuk

Well, I have signed up for 18185. I have no clue how they can do this, or make money, but we shall give it a go!

Thanks for your help