BT 3.99 trial

Gillby1

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if the BT internet £3.99 three month trial is worth doing? Sorry if it's been on here already, but I tried searching and couldn't.

Ta!

Gill

chalky_bertie

I suppose it depends what you want. The BT package is for Dial-up but I would recommend Broadband. However if you can only get dial-up then check around as there will be cheaper prices than this for longer monthly usage (150 hours with BT), but with the £3.99 per month it works out to be £12.99 per month.

You can get Broadband for about the same price or even less at the moment so if you can get it then sign-up for this.


Just a note looked at my mates new pc the other day and the dial-up connection he had was sooooooooo slow it was unbelievable.

Gillby1

Unfortunately i live in a new build with no broadband access. Annoying.

I don't understand how it works out at £12.99 per month?

Thanks!

mrJ_5

you could always try a different provider, whom offer different packages depending on what your usage will be - my current ISP, zazizam (which I use for broadband) charge from £5 and upwards. The package most simililar to BTs is £9.99 a month, and you get 18hrs more each month than what BT would give you.

go to https://www.zazizam.com for more details from them


the £12.99 a month is worked out over the course of your first year, on average per month - then the average goes up to £15.99 a month on year 2

Gillby1

Right - but I could cancel after the three months, that's the idea. There doesn't seem to be a contract?

mrJ_5

having not read BTs terms, I would assume so - but i don't think BT will like people to keep on doing this (cancelling after 3 months) - as they will loose money, even more so if you re-join on another £3.99 offer.

EDIT: though saying that, you may have to pay £15.99 a month for the 1st 3 months, and get the difference refunded in month 4 - £36 - which is what I think they were doing for their broadband packages at £15.99 for 3 months, £6 refunded in month 4.
Alternatively BT could make you cough up 3 lots of £3.99 in one go - and you pay nothing till month 4

Gillby1

That's fine, I wouldn't keep going back for the offer, just use it once. Then I'd move on to the cheapest deal. I need to change provider anyway, and thought i might as well make use of this offer.

Rikki

There is a big estate being built near me with houses and eventually factory units. 100's of houses all with no broadband bt put in the wrong phone cables.

GeoThermal

I've been using the £3.99 offer for the last couple of months. No problems during that time. I did email them a week ago to change the account back to PAYG as I have broadband now, but haven't heard anything back.

mrJ_5

Rikki wrote:

There is a big estate being built near me with houses and eventually factory units. 100's of houses all with no broadband bt put in the wrong phone cables.

now that was clever by BT - though i thought that there was only one type of phone cable

chalky_bertie

Gillby1 wrote:

Unfortunately i live in a new build with no broadband access. Annoying.

I don't understand how it works out at £12.99 per month?

Thanks!

I thought it would be a 12 month contract (but maybe not) so 3x3.99 +9x15.99 = ??? / 12 =12.99 per month over the year.