Post Office HomePhone/Broadband Price Changes From 5th Jan 2015.

OldGreyFox

"We're changing some of our prices from 5th January 2015

HomePhone pricing

HomePhone Line Rental will rise from £13 to £15 a month.
Line Rental Saver will increase from £120 to £144 pa. This will only affect customers when their current Line Rental saver payment expires. . If you would like to add Line Rental Saver to your account please call us – you can lock in the equivalent of £10/month line rental for the next year if you take this out before 5th Jan 2015.

Daytime calls to national and local numbers (dialed numbers beginning: 01/02/03/0845Calls to 0845 numbers may be charged at up to 5p per minute from a fixed line and calls from mobiles can be considerably higher. Calls may be monitored or recorded for training and compliance purposes./0870National call rates apply. Call rates may vary depending on your service provider. Calls may be monitored or recorded for training purposes.) will rise from 8.5p to 9.5p a minute.

The Evening & Weekend call package will go up by 25p to £1.50 per month.

Broadband pricing

Broadband Essential with HomePhone: Broadband Essential will now be only £5 a month. Line rental with Weekend Calls will now be £15 a month, so the total price for both remains at £20 a month.
Broadband Premium with HomePhone: Broadband Premium will now be only £8 a month. Line rental with Weekend Calls will now be £15 a month, so the total price for both remains at £23 a month.
This change will affect the tariff of all customers.

Please refer to the Pricing Tables for important information on call duration and call charge rounding rules as well as definitions for day, evening and weekend times."


http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/pricing-notifications

AndyPK

humm.. Line rental very similar to virgin

shrewy

My BT Line Rental is due for renewal at the end of November. I understand their prices have risen quite substantially. I noticed the Post Office were offering line rental at only £120.

My question is, and it might sound dumb(?) but do I have to stick with BT for the line rental?

I wish to remain with BT for the broadband infinity package. I do not possess a landline phone and haven't done so for the last 10 years so call packages are of no interest to me.

Does it matter who you pay the line rental to? I just want the cheapest line rental going.

My mum's broadband is with Virgin and she is able to pay the Post Office for her line rental!

Can anyone shed any light?!

JJ_Egan

My question is, and it might sound dumb(?) but do I have to stick with BT for the line rental?


NO

But its unclear if BT will supply fibre without a BT line rental .
Use the BT help agent to ask .

Quentin

shrewy wrote: »

.....My question is, and it might sound dumb(?) but do I have to stick with BT for the line rental?

I wish to remain with BT for the broadband infinity package.....

The answer in #4 above doesn't take into account your wishes and is therefore wrong.


Yes you must stick with BT line rental (to keep their infinity BB)

oldharryrocks

BT to my knowledge have never offered Broadband in any shape or form as a stand alone product.

If you move your phone line they will terminate your Fibre Broadband.

Some other suppliers do allow you to have phone line with one and broadband with another.This usually works out dearer,as it tends to be cheaper to have them bundled together.

AndyPK

And virgin allow you to just have broadband without a phone line, however when you work it out, it isn't any cheaper!

spyhunter

oldharryrocks wrote: »

BT to my knowledge have never offered Broadband in any shape or form as a stand alone product.

If you move your phone line they will terminate your Fibre Broadband.

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BT have always offered standalone adsl and fibre broadband it's just not promoted so you wont see it on the website.

The standalone products are more expensive than the bundle products so if you take away the line rental the broadband price will increase.

BT would only terminate the broadband connection if you took your line rental to an LLU supplier as it's not possible to have BT broadband on an LLU line.

If you move to a WLR line the broadband remains with BT (at a higher rate) and the line and calls are billed by another provider.