MSE News: BT to buy EE, but no change for customers yet

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niftyone wrote: »

Little or no difference to the other major suppliers line rental charges.

BT £16.99 a month.

Virgin Media 16.99 a month.

Talk Talk 16.70 a month.

That's only because BT raised it's prices though

oldharryrocks

Sky Line Rental is (£16.40 a month) and what have BT got to do with the price others charge.

VisionMan

oldharryrocks wrote: »

Sky Line Rental is £16.40 a month.

Indeed. Which was a 17.5% increase over previous charges.

Sky Voicemail £1 a month (previously free).

Connection fee for the majority of non-inclusive calls increased from 15p/call to 15.9p/call.

Non-inclusive calls to UK landlines increased from 8.9p/minute to 9.5p/minute.

And calls to UK mobiles increased from 12p/minute at all times to 12.7p/minute at all times.

I won't mention the TV. But it all comes with free Broadband, of course.

- Edited for added info.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

These days a lot of people don't want a landline but seem to get stuck with one none the less.

Only alternative is Virgin BB only but if you that they increase the price because you don't have a landline.

Why are telecom firms so pressed to keep people tethered to their phone lines?

I go so sick of the ever increasing landline costs I have gone totally mobile with 4G.

get unlimited calls to UK landlines AND MOBILES, unlimited texts, caller display, voice mail, 20GB of device and/or tethering data (enough for me I don't stream video or play games) and a 128GB Iphone 6 for £49 a month over a 12 month contract. Once that is up I think the SIM only version is very reasonably priced.

But best of all I have been able to cut the wires.

jem16

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

Why are telecom firms so pressed to keep people tethered to their phone lines?

Very simply because that's the way ADSL BB is delivered - over the phone lines. If you want ADSL BB then you have to pay for the line as someone has to pay for their upkeep.

But best of all I have been able to cut the wires.

Which is fine if that's what you want. Personally I don't like having conversations over mobiles as the signal can be quite iffy at times.

prowla

My mobile contract is coming up for renewal in April; I've been with Orange since before the "7" was brought in as the 2nd digit of a mobile number, but I think I'll be moving on, as I don't want to go back to being a BT customer.

I've also got EE ADSL broadband, but it is really bad (I moved from Sky, but Sky was way better!), so I'll be looking to move from that when the 12 months is done (it was cheap though, after cashback, but I guess I've got what I've paid for).

I've got a phone line with my EE ADSL, but I almost never make a phone call and most of the incoming ones are scammers, so I can probably ditch that.

The ADSL BB is really just a standby for my Virgin BB, but that's going up to (though with a 66% performance increase!), but I don't need the spare so much now, as my work circumstances have changed so I can cope with an outage.

My Virgin subscription includes a phone line, but I've never used it; they offered me a cheaper deal to keep it than just have the BB!

I'm thinking that I could just drop back to the Virgin BB, and maybe swap my mobile to Virgin too.

VisionMan

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

I go so sick of the ever increasing landline costs I have gone totally mobile with 4G.

I get unlimited calls to UK landlines AND MOBILES, unlimited texts, caller display, voice mail, 20GB of device and/or tethering data (enough for me I don't stream video or play games) and a 128GB Iphone 6 for £49 a month over a 12 month contract.

They saw you coming. I get BT fibre, phone and TV for less than that. I've also just signed up to an EE 4G smartphone contract. £174 for the phone (a Nokia Lumia 735) then £10 a mth for 12mths.

prowla

VisionMan wrote: »

They saw you coming. I get BT fibre, phone and TV for less than that. I've also just signed up to an EE 4G smartphone contract. £174 for the phone (a Nokia Lumia 735) then £10 a mth for 12mths.

£174 for a Nokia Lumia - they saw you coming!:)

VisionMan

prowla wrote: »

£174 for a Nokia Lumia - they saw you coming!:)

Not really prowla. In the same transaction, I bought the phone outright as a retail purchase and then took a sim only 4G contract at £10pm x 12. It saved me over £180 on what others offered me.

no1Silversurfer

I was a BT customer, they were totally dreadful on everything so I switched to EE, which was not much of an improvement but at least they were a great deal cheaper ........ guess I'll be looking for another provider, as from the other comments, BT still stands for
Bl**dy Terrible.