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BT Getting Too Expensive.

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  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
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    spyhunter wrote: »
    BT Vision usage is not part of the download allowance for the broadband package.
    Nevertheless, it fails the value for money test IMHO.
    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.
  • poppasmurf_bewdley
    poppasmurf_bewdley Posts: 5,946 Forumite
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    edited 20 July 2011 at 1:07PM
    I went onto BT Broadband at the end of last year when I moved house. I was using Virgin Broadband at £7.50 per month but BT offered me Option 1 Broadband for £5 per month over an 18 month contract, which was and still is unbeatable. I will not continue at their full rate at the end of my contract but will attempt to negotiate.

    I have to say that the BT Broadband service is far more reliable and stable than Virgin (National not cable), which I had used for 4 years.

    I do not use BT for phone calls, except free ones. Their calls are far too expensive and when combined with their incredibly expensive call connection charge make them prohibitively exhorbitant. I use 18185 for all inland calls at 5p per unlimited duration call, instead of BT's 13p connection charge and up to 8p per minute.
    "There are not enough superlatives in the English language to describe a 'Princess Coronation' locomotive in full cry. We shall never see their like again". O S Nock
  • jhp
    jhp Posts: 2,342 Forumite
    I went onto BT Broadband at the end of last year when I moved house. I was using Virgin Broadband at £7.50 per month but BT offered me Option 1 Broadband for £5 per month over an 18 month contract, which was and still is unbeatable. I will not continue at their full rate at the end of my contract but will attempt to negotiate.

    I have to say that the BT Broadband service is far more reliable and stable than Virgin (National not cable), which I had used for 4 years.

    I do not use BT for phone calls, except free ones. Their calls are far too expensive and when combined with their incredibly expensive call connection charge make them prohibitively exhorbitant. I use 18185 for all inland calls at 5p per unlimited duration call, instead of BT's 13p connection charge and up to 8p per minute.

    If you make more then 18 calls geographical calls a week BT anytime call bundle is worth considering.
  • shaz77_2
    shaz77_2 Posts: 1,881 Forumite
    OK back to basics, I'm not going to bother about BT Vision, however is there anything else I should be trying to reduce before agreeing to this BT contract of £26.80?
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