no 1280 access ? BT to start charging for the prior FREE 1571 service

diamonds

On top of the charge for BT Privacy, you'll now be charged almost £1 a month for 1571

" BT Answer 1571 makes sure you don't miss a call – whether you're away from home or on another call.

You'll know there's a message waiting for you because you'll hear an interrupted dial tone when you next pick up the phone. To check your messages just dial 1571.

Records messages up to 2 minutes long
Stores up to 10 messages at a time
Keeps messages for 20 days
Warns you when your message box is nearly full
We've upgraded BT Answer 1571 so you can return a call when you've received a message. Simply press the 0 key when you've listened to the message and we'll call the person back straight away.*

BT Answer 1571 won't cost you anything extra, but you need to sign up for it. You can either do this now online in Your Account, or dial 1571 from your home number (the one you wish to use for BT Answer 1571) and an automated service will talk you through the order process.

* This feature will not be available if the person leaving the message has chosen to withhold their number or if the call was from an international number. Customers who use Call Barring should note that calls to 1571 will be barred under outgoing Call Barring option 1, this is because calling 1571 may lead to a chargeable call. A facility fee of 9.79p (inc VAT), will also be charged for the call set up attempt. 1571 Call Return will be on all messaging services except BT Answer with Personalised Greeting.

Customers who do not make chargeable or inclusive calls with BT will be charged for BT Answer 1571 standard service. Customers who are billed monthly must make at least two chargeable or inclusive calls with BT in that month (excludes calls made with BT Broadband Talk) or BT will charge (incl. VAT) 98p a month for the standard BT Answer 1571 service. Customers who are billed quarterly must make at least six chargeable or inclusive calls with BT within that quarter or BT will charge (incl. VAT) £2.94 a quarter. "

Keep BT Privacy/1571 FREE, read here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1417897

Drunkstar

Its been charged if you dont make the calls for ages, several months at least.

diamonds

Are you not going to tell people thats a definate charge if your on new BT Wholesale ? ( sky etc...) thats almost £3 every quarter BTDrunk*, because US the consumer [STRIKE]have[/STRIKE] had no choice, follow linky linky in bottom of post above folks

Drunkstar

I dont work for BT anymore fella. All I can tell you is that before I left (1/12/08) for several months the 1571 was chargable if you didnt make calls with BT, and it had been mentioned several times on here by others. As for the 1280 issue, I think it sucks that this situation has arisen as it seems anti competative to me.

Oh, the linky link doesnt seem to work.

jhp

1571 has been chargeable on BT for quite a while if you dont make 2 chargeable or inclusive calls a month via BT.

diamonds

Well I have never been charged, im Primus'd up on CPS ?, I never use the landline ( no phone plugged in ) https://www.orange.co.uk/unique ended my landline calls a year ago, its there for broadband only


apologies Drunk* I thought you were mis-representing a FREE product on behalf of your previous employer ( bet them last 2 words sound good ! ), thanks for informing me = linky now fixed

Drunkstar

No worry fella. No harm no foul.