BT line for new build property

Heinz

scrooge82 wrote: »

As far as leaving BT once line is installed you can, but its £18 at any point during first 12 months.

I'm not sure whether that £18 'get out' is still available but, in any case, if you paid to have a BT line installed, there'd be no point in moving because others charge almost the same - sometimes more - for the line rental and your options for routing your calls would be greatly reduced.

OTOH, you don't have to put your calls through BT at all (even within the first 12 months).

gt94sss2

BritBrat wrote: »

Is that the Sunil sud from newsgroups?

Sunil Sood but yes..

Regards
Sunil

gt94sss2

Heinz wrote: »

I'm not sure whether that £18 'get out' is still available

Stops on the 1st May..

Regards
Sunil

billsavings

scrooge82 wrote: »

As far as leaving BT once line is installed you can, but its £18 at any point during first 12 months.

Not after the 1/5/2007 see:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=342453

But they have now waived £5 admin fee.:D

hurrah

scrooge82 wrote: »

Been looking into other options - I think but i'm not positive - Bulldog will install a line for you at £99 -

They can offer more then that :eek:


See: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=427050&highlight=bulldog

Allanon

scrooge82 wrote: »

BT ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THERE IS NO OVER OPTION.

If you realised just how much it costs to install a telephone service on a new build housing estate it would make your toes curl. Trenching, ducting, cabling etc., etc., can run into hundreds of thousands of pounds quite easily. The builder will usually run the cables in the house but BT have to pay for that. You may think that £125 is expensive for a couple of hours work processing your order and pushing a couple of buttons in the exchange, but BT have to pay for all the infrastructure first before that can happen.

Cable cant be installed on new estates until they have been completed for 2 years!

That's just not true. I was a cable jointer on BT and while I was sat in a manhole on a new estate jointing our cables, jointers from Telewest (now Virgin Media) were sat in a hole 10 metres away jointing their cables.

John.

andrewbrydon

Hi

About to move into new house too

£124.99 is going rate. £50 for each extension. Our house has 4 ! and all the engineer does is move a wire across in box !!!

You sign a 12mth contract, however, you can cancel £18 charge
With are with Talk Talk (and are happy with them) and they will reimburse the £18 on our 1st bill.

Sign up to Option 1 package with BT and then chose your alternative supplier

Hope this helps

bylromarha

scrooge82 wrote: »

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Cable cant be installed on new estates until they have been completed for 2 years!

My brand new house had a NTL line on it if I wanted...I live in Plot 1, so certainly wasn't an estate over 2 years old.

Allanon

andrewbrydon wrote: »

£124.99 is going rate. £50 for each extension. Our house has 4 ! and all the engineer does is move a wire across in box !!!

You didn't read my post of about 90 minutes earlier - you are paying for all the infrastructure to enable you to get a dial tone and make/receive calls to/from the rest of the world, not for the engineer to move a wire across in a box :rolleyes:

John

hurrah

andrewbrydon wrote: »

You sign a 12mth contract, however, you can cancel £18 charge

Not after the Ist may 2007 you cant. You have to pay the balance of your remaining contract.(Talk Talk are unlikely to pay this.)