Can anyone take a look at these costs?

Kerry22

Hi everyone

Each month I never seem to have enough time to question things and/or check for cheaper options, so I was wondering what others think about these costs:

Home Phone and Broadband £46.29

Residential Line Rental £17.42
Standard Broadband £10.54
Off Peak Saver £3.17
Plus VAT £7.70

Total £46.29

My call costs were only £7.46

Phone installation £20.00 (fair enough)
Printed bill charge £1.25
VAT £4.25

I don't know, it just all seems a long way from the £25 estimate i was given some time back for my broadband and home phone.

Interested in your thoughts. Thanks

JJ_Egan

<Residential Line Rental £17.42 >
Slightly less than current BT LR.

>Standard Broadband £10.54 >
Depends upon what the standard means but about ball park .


<Off Peak Saver £3.17 >
Does it save for you ??

<Printed bill charge £1.25 >

As you have BB do you need a paper bill ??


£20 as you say ESTIMATE and some time back .

Ian011

If you make more than one hour of weekday calls per month you should be on an unlimited anytime call plan. This costs around £8 per month. Without it, these calls cost around £7 per HOUR.

Kerry22

Thanks I'll come back to this later, it just seems £46 this month for a few phone calls, each only amounting to about 28p, just seems a lot.

The line rental and the broadband costs seem about right.....but wondering whether to have a landline phone if the calls themselves cost a few pence, but the bill comes in with VAT at so much more.

JJ_Egan

Its probably the connection charge for each call that is adding up .

You have no need for a phone if you have an alternative like a mobile .
You need the landline and its rental for your broadband.

AndyPK

What company you with?

Should target £30 per month

Kerry22

JJ_Egan wrote: »

<Off Peak Saver £3.17 >
Does it save for you ??

It gives me free local, national and mobile calls after 7pm weekdays and all day at weekends.

No idea if it's saving for me at the moment since I've got £7plus worth of calls to pay for anyway.....I guess I'm not calling people after 7 or on weekends.

I'll try and be mindful of this but the people I call are mainly tv addicts and are settled in front of the box by 7pm and don't want to be disturbed, lol

Kerry22

And it's the VAT on top of all that, no one tells you about that when you sign up.

Kerry22

JJ_Egan wrote: »

You have no need for a phone if you have an alternative like a mobile

I'm old school about mobiles and think using the landline is healthier for longer calls..

Kerry22

AndyPK wrote: »

What company you with?

Should target £30 per month

Utility Warehouse. I'm not complaining about them personally as such, I'm just wondering if I can get the bill down because on top of this every month is an electric bill of around £50 - £70 (because of being on a budget plan)...and I really don't understand any of it to be honest. I seem to pay a lot each month into the budget plan but then it says stuff like I'm in a debit situation (sometimes it'll say on the bill that I'm BOTH in debit and in credit) and I just don't seem to have the patience to look into it (too many family crises recently), especially as when I call I don't get through.

It's just weird seeing that on the bill when underneath it'll say 'electricity used this month' (or something like that) = £7.00.

I guess I'm just too simple, but phone calls that cost a few pence and a small amount of electricity used and a bill that is £100 plus every month is puzzling.

AndyPK

Kerry22 wrote: »

It gives me free local, national and mobile calls after 7pm weekdays and all day at weekends.

No idea if it's saving for me at the moment since I've got £7plus worth of calls to pay for anyway.....I guess I'm not calling people after 7 or on weekends.

I'll try and be mindful of this but the people I call are mainly tv addicts and are settled in front of the box by 7pm and don't want to be disturbed, lol

A lot of companies will do free calls all day for £8 a month.

So that would have saved you £4 this month ? May suit you better.

You still need to pay to call catalogue companies etc. and premium services

Util warehouse £9
Peak Saver: Unlimited free calls (up to 75 mins each) to 01, 02, 03 numbers and UK mobiles at any time of day