BT inclusive text messages

GaryS

Anybody use the free text message service from BT.
Just bought a set of SMS enable phones - 200 free texts per month on Option 3.

BexTech

Option 3 is a lot of money to pay for 24/7 inclusive calls and for 200 texts.

GaryS

What makes you think that its a lot of money ?

24 hour calls included.

Line Rental included.

200 text messages included.

25% off calling UK mobiles.

All for £20.95 per month.

With most other suppliers you will still need a BT line anyway. (£11.00 per month)

BexTech

You can get evening and weekend calls for free - that is by only paying the £11 line rental, so you you think paying £9.95 each and every month just for the extra benefit of daytime calls included and a few text messages is good value?

Then BT were correct when they said they were sure they will be able to convince people that even though they spend more with BT they will be able to get customers to pay more and not go elsewhere.

25% off calls to mobiles? Yeah that's great!! Not, when they charge you way too much in the first place 25% still makes it dearer than what you can get, for example dial 18185 before each mobile calls and pay 2p/min weekends and 5p/min daytime.

Now if you make over 331 daytime calls each and every month, or sends loads of text messages, then it may be OK, for most, it's just a waste of money, plus others have a mobile phone with loads of text messages anyway.

BT Line Rental £11
Primus 2 £0 per month and free evening and weekend calls.
1899 £0/month - UK calls for 3 pence each (make no calls pay nothing)
18185 £0/month - UK Mobiles 5p/min weekday, 2p/min weekend. (make no calls pay nothing)

Granted the only thing in it's favour is the text messages, if you send a load of text messages, but you'd get good deals for text messages on a mobile phone.

All depends if you think an extra £9.95 every single month whether you use it or not is worth it, just for the added benefit of some inclusive texts and daytime calls being free (evenings /weekends you can already get free for no money)

For most people they would be better off with the free evening and weekend calls and just pay the 3p per call during the day, as some months they only make 50 calls during the day, so that would only cost them £1.50 that month, with the inclusive call package it would have cost them still £9.95.

mobilegossip

GaryS wrote:

What makes you think that its a lot of money ?

24 hour calls included.

Line Rental included.

200 text messages included.

25% off calling UK mobiles.

All for £20.95 per month.

With most other suppliers you will still need a BT line anyway. (£11.00 per month)

£20.95 -£11.00 =£9.95 a month this will give you over 75 calls to 01/02 numbers a week on 1899.Do you honestly make that number of calls.Plus you can get Free Evening and Weekend calls with Primus Saver 2.Also you dont pay for the service if you dont use it.

You can make calls to UK Mobiles for 5p peak/evenings 2p weekends using 18185

Guess it depends on how much you value the not so free text messages.:cool: