OneTel Increase Line Rental Prices.

paul_h

Does anyone use this company for line rental?

http://www.itplc.com/Pricing/line_rental_features.asp

£8.50 per month for LR, caller display another £1.37 if you want it. Billing for evening and weekend calls is per minute, at 1p per min.. They do, however, charge £14.99+VAT to transfer your line and I believe thay have a minimum 12 month contract term.

If anyone uses them, do they prevent use of access codes?

pricefighter

paul_h wrote:

Does anyone use this company for line rental?

http://www.itplc.com/Pricing/line_rental_features.asp

£8.50 per month for LR, caller display another £1.37 if you want it. Billing for evening and weekend calls is per minute, at 1p per min.. They do, however, charge £14.99+VAT to transfer your line and I believe thay have a minimum 12 month contract term.

If anyone uses them, do they prevent use of access codes?

Read the thread posted below and then read all their T&C and rates very very carefully, 4.7 covers your question i quote

"4.7 Under no circumstances is the customer allowed to use an alternative Telecom supplier to override or bypass IT services either through the installation of equipment or through the BT local exchange without the prior consent in writing of IT. Any such unauthorized changes or by-passing the IT network or services may result to suspension/termination of services without notice to the customers or extra charges maybe added"

Also consider they operate per minute billing,and you have to add vat to most of the prices quoted on their site. EG Call charges.


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=90691&highlight=itplc+cheap+line+rental

Steve_xx

pricefighter wrote:

Read the thread posted below and then read all their T&C very carefully,4.7 covers your question i quote

"4.7 Under no circumstances is the customer allowed to use an alternative Telecom supplier to override or bypass IT services either through the installation of equipment or through the BT local exchange without the prior consent in writing of IT. Any such unauthorized changes or by-passing the IT network or services may result to suspension/termination of services without notice to the customers or extra charges maybe added"


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=90691&highlight=itplc+cheap+line+rental

There you see, BT really is the goose that lays the golden egg. Why do people resent it so much that they'd like to kill it?

paul_h

Thanks for the link pricefighter, I was sure they had been discussed (and dismissed) on here before - I was just wondering if anyone had actually used them.

Steve_xx wrote:

There you see, BT really is the goose that lays the golden egg. Why do people resent it so much that they'd like to kill it?

Mainly for the reasons I quoted...

Seriously though, I wouldn't want to kill BT, but if we are going to have a fully open and competitive telecoms market, there needs to be a level playing field between BT Retail and third party operators. IMHO BT Wholesale should have been separated from BT Retail. As they have to open the wholesale network up to other operators, BT keep wholesale prices high to ensure the maximum profit from third party operators and at the same time making competition more difficult...

...and OFCOM let them do it.

redux

That new era of cut-throat competition from BT that some article recently heralded is really having an effect in decreasing prices

Steve_xx

paul_h wrote:

Thanks for the link pricefighter, I was sure they had been discussed (and dismissed) on here before - I was just wondering if anyone had actually used them.


Mainly for the reasons I quoted...

Seriously though, I wouldn't want to kill BT, but if we are going to have a fully open and competitive telecoms market, there needs to be a level playing field between BT Retail and third party operators. IMHO BT Wholesale should have been separated from BT Retail. As they have to open the wholesale network up to other operators, BT keep wholesale prices high to ensure the maximum profit from third party operators and at the same time making competition more difficult...

...and OFCOM let them do it.

Good, I'm glad you don't want to kill BT, because that would be a disaster for the UK. BT pays taxes on its profits, and that means that unlike in the old days when BT was state run, you and I do not have to support it and its rather lacklustre workforce via our taxes.

I agree that as an entity that BT is not perfect, and at the point of deregulation more ought to have been done to promote competition, especially in the area of local loop unbundling. This is of course with the benefit of hindsight.

OFTEL were pretty good at regulating telcos and particularly BT. The problem we have now with OFCOM is that it is has much wider responsibility and this has not boded well for regulation of telecoms in my view.

But on the whole the UK telecoms deregualted model looks well. I think that in reality we are all benefitting greatly from it. Most people have at least some choice.

Nicholas

pricefighter wrote:

Yes.I did a rain check of all the remaining competitors who offer line rental earlier today,to check their offers Toucan,Homecall!!!,PostOffice Etc Etc , and for medium to high users as far as costs are concerned you cant beat the BT Line Rental,1899/18185/Primus Saver combination.So much for competition.

Who exactly is Primus saver? I take it they are not part of the talk talk group of companies. I'm just holding on that little bit longer with Onetel for the moment as I still have over £14 left of the £20 credit they gave me for joining online last June. (Whether I lose it or not later on remains to be seen)

Also, is the Primus option 2 ie free weekend and evening calls a limited offer or is it here to stay?

Steve_xx

Nicholas wrote:

Who exactly is Primus saver? I take it they are not part of the talk talk group of companies. I'm just holding on that little bit longer with Onetel for the moment as I still have over £14 left of the £20 credit they gave me for joining online last June. (Whether I lose it or not later on remains to be seen)

Also, is the Primus option 2 ie free weekend and evening calls a limited offer or is it here to stay?

Here are the details of who Primus are:

http://www.planet-talk.co.uk/About.aspx?menuselection=5

On their website it does not say that the evening/weekend free calls are for a limited period only. But no doubt within their terms and conditions they will retain the right to amend their services.

kazd

Well if they read this site and find out that people are only signing up to get the free evening and weekend calls they might decide to change their pricing!

Nicholas

kazd wrote:

Well if they read this site and find out that people are only signing up to get the free evening and weekend calls they might decide to change their pricing!

Bit of a catch 22 then. If not for this site, I would never have heard of Primus (or 18866,1899,18185..........:shhh: