MSE News: BT announces steep price rises for home phone and broadband – how to beat t

buckwem

I spoke to BT and they offered me a £14.35 discount for 24 months on BT Infinity 2 for signing up for 24 months. I could obtain a bit more by signing up to Plusnet but I use the BT Wifi and I am likely to use the £5 per month BT Mobile deal. An easy 10 minute call.

Kite2010

Time for the usual switch, although looking at the options available to me they appears to be more than their used to be (BT must have finally dragged the cabinet into the 21st Century)

A quick look-out and it's probably Post Office Broadband seem to be the cheapest for me at the moment (especially since I'm close to the end of my "12 months cheap" deal with BT, where afterwards it jumps up.

diggerunited

So BT does it again and sticks it to all its customers, continually increasing prices year on year. Im amazed at all those who say i will stay with BT all the time. WHY? BT have risen thgeir prices every year,

In 2008 BT line rental was £11.50 now its to go up again to £18.99 thats £719 people might have well thrown it into the street for everyone to pick up. There is no loyalty to their customers. Virgin have increased prices, and Sky and Plusnet.

I was with BT years ago in 2009 and could see the way it was going, I switched all my internet and phone to Spartatelecom.com and i have never looked back.

For what anyone thinks about them Sparta have not EVER put their prices up and remains the cheapest on the market. But where will the price hikes end. Will BT put their prices up next year i predict yes and they will keep doing so until they price themselves out of the market.

But dont forget its not just line rental, everytime you connect a call thats now costing you 19p and every min you talk on the phone that cost is going up to. At a time when everyone still needs to watch their spend, do we really need a huge corporate with big profits pushing up prices again. NO. Now the cats out of the bag that it will be July, then i would urge every person to take 5 mins, and do what the government suggested and look to change BT to someone else. I can recommend Sparta Telecom, but its up to you, but do it now before your tied into their pricing.

JJ_Egan

Switch 2009 how Sparta say they started in 2011 .

I have priced them up
76meg Fibre £36 pm + LR £10.80 pm .
Fibre is more expensive than BT £32.50 pm .

I would save about £4 pm but lose BT Sport .

molerat

My unlimited broadband, anytime calls and line rental is £194.76 this year (on renewal) with Plusnet so Sparta not quite as cheap as they say, comparing "rrp" and not real world prices. 24p a month for anytime calls seems a bargain to me.

loveabargain13

Morning, I've just on 26th April become a new BT broadband customer so does that mean what I was expecting to pay for the year has now increased?! They mucked up my line rental saver so I didn't even get a discount on that. I wish I could just get broadband no line.

Devonian_Rodders

The main article makes interesting reading, but we seem to be systematically ripped off by BT.

For some considerable time now, BT has swamped both press and media with adverts for various services at rediculously low prices, available only to new customers. OK so many businesses have jumped on this bandwagon to increase trade. BT in its wisdom wnt one better recently by advertising broad band at HALF PRICE, basic broadband £5 instead of £10 monthly, although existing customers have to pay £13 monthly unless they try to haggle.
We as existing customers have to question whether the new increases are to be used to fund even more crazy offers to new customers ?
As my annual line rental saver is due to expire soon, I shall be examining very closely the costs from BT, and of course their poor performance, highlighted in Martins mail this week where BT customers did not receive last weeks mail for reasons undisclosed.

adindas

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

I find it funny how people seem not to know about the cheap landline rentals offered by Falconnet (9.50 per month), Vivaciti and IDNet. The latter offering inclusive anytime calls to Landlines and Mobiles for £231 up front per year on a 30 day contract.

Instead people here seem to feel the need to waste life haggling with BT or jumping from BT to Sky to EE to Plusnet back to BT while trawling cashback websites.

http://www.vivaciti.net/phone
http://www.falconnet.co.uk/telephone.html

We will need to see the whole figure Their Fibre optic broadband:
http://www.falconnet.co.uk/fibre-broadband.html

£19, £22 or £28.

I paid £15 with talk Talk for fibre optic broadband Up to 40 MB speed for download, Unlimited download with about £16 line rental. No installation cost and you get free Super router. No brainer what I will need to choose. Who is funnier here ....

AndyPK

buglawton wrote: »

Just trying to make sense of the BT Basic deal which may apply to disabled/on benefits people.
e.g.
http://www.choose.net/media/guide/faqs/bt-basic-benefits-broadband.html

Now, like a lot if disabled people, the person I organise the phone for may make a lot of calls, also visiting relatives and carers do. Her line has a minimal Plusnet broadband (not all that cheap nowadays), for visiting grandchildren etc.

So she needs: Unlimited local calls and a broadband connection.
Possible with BT basic? I think not.

You can have broadband with it.

For the amount of saving you get, (I think I worked it out at £300 a year) you can pay for a lot of calls.

buglawton

AndyPK wrote: »

You can have broadband with it.

For the amount of saving you get, (I think I worked it out at £300 a year) you can pay for a lot of calls.

Hmm yes thinking about it.
Thing is, she's prone to forgetfulness/absent-mindedness at times, like making a call that goes to voicemail and forgetting to hang up, no longer really able to use 18185 so I got her the BT unlimited calls deal to make things simple. BT Basic makes things complicated again.