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Cost of BT fixed line handset rental?

JPSC
JPSC Posts: 30 Forumite
Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
in Phones & TV
I have been searching the BT website without success, does anyone know the current BT charge for handset rental, please?

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  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Please don't hand them money by renting a telephone instrument. You can buy them In Argos for less than £5.
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • JustPassingBy
    JustPassingBy Posts: 710 Forumite
    JPSC wrote: »
    I have been searching the BT website without success, does anyone know the current BT charge for handset rental, please?

    http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/public/current/maintoc.htm

    Section 4.
  • JPSC
    JPSC Posts: 30 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Heinz wrote: »
    Please don't hand them money by renting a telephone instrument. You can buy them In Argos for less than £5.

    Thanks, but I haven't rented a handset for so long I cannot remember when I stopped. I'm actually trying to decipher my elderly mother in law's BT bill from 400 miles away as she has complained about the cost. I have been trying to persuade her to change to monthly DD and buy a handset for several years, but she has not been willing to change up to now. I'm just hoping that this bill might change her mind!
  • BT_company_representative
    BT_company_representative Posts: 1,861 Organisation Representative
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi JPSC,
    I can help you with the bill. Email your mother in laws account details to btcare@bt.com. Include your forum username and also a link to your thread so that I can identify you.
    Many Thanks
    Donna
    BT Support
    “Official Company Representative
    I am the official company representative of BT. MSE has given permission for me to post in response to queries about the company, so that I can help solve issues. You can see my name on the companies with permission to post list. I am not allowed to tout for business at all. If you believe I am please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com This does NOT imply any form of approval of my company or its products by MSE"
  • Buzby
    Buzby Posts: 8,275 Forumite
    Don;t force her into a DD. Just because you think it OK to give 3rd party's access to plunder your bank account, doesn't mean she'd welcome it.
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