BT Payphone "stealth" price rise to 60p

rapido

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mrtom21

Then have you considered a cheap pay as you go mobile if you are not willing to pay the cost? You can just pay per minute on a mobile.

Farway

mrtom21 wrote: »

Then have you considered a cheap pay as you go mobile if you are not willing to pay the cost? You can just pay per minute on a mobile.

And if you get an ASDA networked one then it is just 8p a minute, so the 30 second call time you mentioned would only be 8p

ACDeag

Pretty expensive if you get answered BT Answer 1571.

rapido

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shark_2

mrtom21 wrote: »

A 30 minute call to a day time landline for a BT land line customer on the weekend plan would cost £1.17 (30 x 5.9p) + the 9.9p set up fee. At a payphone you are still getting it at around half that price which to me still works out cheaper. If the majority of payphones are not making any form of money then you have to question why they are even there. You should consider it lucky BT still have the obligation to provide them at a loss in most cases.

> the cost is actually £1.77 (30 x 5.9p) for 30 mins + set-up fee from a BT landline.

KimYeovil

rapido wrote: »

A call from a payphone is normally something like 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.

I doubt if even 10% of calls are over 3 minutes.

-rapido

I doubt if even 10% of calls are under 3 minutes.

rapido

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iniltous

If there was any profit in payphones then Talk Talk and Sky etc would be installing them, but they dont, because they lose money, given that BT shoulders the burden of providing a 'community' service when no other Telco has to, then 60p a call isnt bad, there was one payphone in some remote location that took about £3 in a year....yet the locals were up in arms when BT wanted to remove it,

rapido

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