Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus) Discussion

Cardew

janninew wrote: »

Can somebody be kind enough to answer a couple of simple questions about BT?

1. If I was to sign up with BT would I be locked into a contract?
2. How much is BT line rental, i'm not bothered about caller display, answer machine service etc. Just bog standard line rental.

Thanks!
Janninew

£11.25 monthly.

No contract?? required for free(inclusive) weekend calls(unclear)

12 month contract gets you evening and weekend calls for the £11.25

An additional £4.95 gets you unlimited calls 24/7 with a 12 month contract

Details here:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayCategory.do?categoryId=CON-HOME-PHN-R1&s_intcid=con_intban_overview_calls_home

Quentin

keggs wrote: »

1. Yes for at least 12 - 18 mths

2. About £11 if I remember rightly - about £50 more than UW's HomePhone line rental

This is a misleading reply from a uw rep.

BT = £11.25/month for paperless billing (includes free weekend calls with 12 month contract, or free evening and weekend calls if you renew your contract every 12 months)

uw = £12.63/month (includes compulsory club membership fee and minimum monthly call charge). Includes free calls to other uw members only.

Get keggs to give a "proper" answer on why he claims the uw is £50 less!

Cardew

keggs wrote: »

"However to use the UW internet phone away from the house – for instance in the Halls of Residence – surely you will need your own telephone line and a Broadband service as the system only works by plugging the phone into the router. – this of course is the point ypaymore was making."

Sorry Cardew you are wrong here. You do not need your own broadband a/ line line service when you take it around with you. That's the whole point. You plug it into any compatible router that is available. So if there is a broadband connection in a hotel for instance then you simply plug in the adaptor. End of story.

Hope that helps

Hotels with routers available to plug in adapters? Are you serious?

When did you last stay in a hotel?

Have you not heard of Hotels using wireless?

You need access to a router to use UW's internet phone! Where in a Hall of Residence do you find a router?

keggs

Cardew wrote: »

Hotels with routers available to plug in adapters? Are you serious?

When did you last stay in a hotel?

Have you not heard of Hotels using wireless?

You need access to a router to use UW's internet phone! Where in a Hall of Residence do you find a router?

I give you facts as I know them. I used hotel as an example - it doesn't matter. If a router is available you can use an IPL. If no router available then you can't use it.

OK. Satisfied.:p

keggs

If anyone new or old to this site who want genuine answers to questions regarding the services the Utility Warehouse offers without the hot biased anti debate whenever an ID answers a question please pm me or one of the other IDs on here who will give you the link to a proper forum.

If there is something we can't answer straight away we'll find out for you.

jimexbox

keggs wrote: »

If there is something we can't answer straight away we'll find out for you.

Why are UW 19% more expensive than mu current tariff? Just a straight answer would be nice.

Cardew

keggs wrote: »

If anyone new or old to this site who want genuine answers to questions regarding the services the Utility Warehouse offers without the hot biased anti debate whenever an ID answers a question please pm me or one of the other IDs on here who will give you the link to a proper forum.

If there is something we can't answer straight away we'll find out for you.

If anyone 'old or new' has a question about UK they would be well advised to ask it on this forum and get a frank and honest answer.

Go to the UW salesmen's 'proper forum' if you want sales patter.

Quentin

keggs wrote: »

If anyone new or old to this site who want genuine answers to questions regarding the services the Utility Warehouse offers without the hot biased anti debate whenever an ID answers a question please pm me or one of the other IDs on here who will give you the link to a proper forum.

If there is something we can't answer straight away we'll find out for you.

1. Keggs breaks the rules by abusing the pm system to pass on links like this.

2. Anyone interested in getting a correct answer to a question note the unexplained bias in this answer from keggs regarding the cost of line rental frpm BT:

kelly wrote:

About £11 if I remember rightly - about £50 more than UW's HomePhone line rental

This £50 saving with the UW doesn't ring true (the monthly uw line rental and minimum call charge plus compulsory membership fee is £1.38 more expensive than BT's on line billing tariff - but we still wait an explanation from keggs on why he wrote the UW was cheaper.)

keggs

Cardew wrote: »

If anyone 'old or new' has a question about UK they would be well advised to ask it on this forum and get a frank and honest answer.

Go to the UW salesmen's 'proper forum' if you want sales patter.

Are you kidding or what:rotfl:

Why do you think someone has already got in touch. He dosen't believe he or she will. All they see is people like you arguing the toss whatever IDs say on this forum. The AUWF are so predictable.:rotfl:

Quentin

keggs wrote:

Why do you think someone has already got in touch. He dosen't believe he or she will.

This forum has regularly been visited by uw reps to give false and misleading info regarding uw's prices etc.

You only have to look at keggs misleading reply today regarding the comparitive costs of uw v bt line rental (to a uw customer and supporter) for an example!

Anyone thinking they will only get the truth by visiting the uw's reps website is truly ideal fodder for the reps!