Home phone tariff - no internet connection, please!

adrian49cc

Can anyone advise, please? I have an elderly neighbour. She spends £80 a month on her BT 'phone bill. Can you believe it? £80! She doesn't have much money too and is too old-fashioned and uninformed to know how to get on a better tariff. I have tried but all I can find when I look for better deals are Internet-only offers or bundled-with-Internet-and-TV deals.

Does anyone know of a basic Talk-anytime tariff, but with NO internet or TV-linked options to it. Basic, basic, basic!

Thanks in advance. I just want to save her money.

Adrian

macman

Just switch her to BT Anytime. This assumes that the £66pm or so currently billed for calls is mainly made up of UK landline daytime calls (not premium rate nos, mobile nos, etc)? She'll get those unlimited for £5.99pm.
BT are not the cheapest supplier, but that's the least painful and quickest way to save her money-about £60 per month.
Every provider around offers an Anytime package-no add ons required.

jhp

macman wrote: »

Every provider around offers an Anytime package-no add ons required.

Except for Post Office Homephone.;)

macman

Which would not be on my shortlist anyway...

DVardysShadow

Before you jump in with both feet, you need to know WHY her bill is £80/month. Then you will know what kind of tariff to look for - or even if there is something very wrong which needs to be put right. Possibly she has been sold some internet and TV package which she does not use and does not need? An attempt to shift her to a different supplier could then bring down contract exit charges and a whole lot more trouble.

adrian49cc

All good suggestions. Thank you all. BT Anytime. Will look into. Hopefully it's just a phone deal. Thanks. Am now away for 7 days but will come back after my break.

Thanks all again.

Adrian

Heinz

BT's Unlimited Anytime calls plan is currently £4.70 month and that gives unlimited UK 01/02/03 calls of up to 60 minutes each and inclusive 0845/0870 calls up to a maximum of 1000 minutes or 150 calls per month.

Basic line rental (currently £13.90/month) has to be paid in addition to that.

ukcarper

BT anytime is a phone only deal if she is making lots of calls to mobiles, overseas or 0871etc in might not be very useful. The other things to watch are don’t use 1471 then dial 3 to connect the call and make sure you don’t stay on the line for over an hour.