Free Texts from your BT Landline!!! (For Life?)

pricefighter

From the 5/10/05 if you are on BT opt 2 or 3,you can get free texts from your landline each month.You will of course need a phone you can send texts from.

Option 2 you get 100 texts. Option 3 you get 200.

See

http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/notifs/30-09-2005/Notice05.boo/3428_20050930111315.htm

saintstreaky

I assume your (For Life?) refers to the contradiction between

From the 5th October 2005 to 29th February 2006, customers on BT Together Options 2 & 3 will be eligible for free texts from their BT landline.

and

These free texts will continue until such time as the BT landline or the BT Together Option 2 package is ceased.

Anyone able to clear this up?

helen21_2

Maybe you have to register, or be registered, on either option 2 or 3 between those dates?

Premier_2

The way I read it, you don't have to register.

The 2 dates refer to the offer period. If you are in or move to BT Together 2 or 3, during the offer period, you will automatically be given the text bundle ( i.e. 100 or 200 free texts per month) until you cancel your landline or downgrade your BT Together package.

After the offer period, anyone who upgrades their BT Together package will be offered the new text bundle then on offer (maybe that will be 1000 or 2000 free texts per month )

7. Free bundled texts exclude texts to premium rate, international numbers or roaming UK mobiles

petal_2

Help......sorry I may seem rather dumb......but how do you send texts from a landline?
Would be a great offer if I knew how to use it!
Thanks

pricefighter

petal wrote:

Help......sorry I may seem rather dumb......but how do you send texts from a landline?
Would be a great offer if I knew how to use it!
Thanks

Visit http://www.bt.com/bttext for full details.

Prudent

petal wrote:

Help......sorry I may seem rather dumb......but how do you send texts from a landline?
Would be a great offer if I knew how to use it!
Thanks

You need a text compatible phone.

mhoc

I expect that I have to try and find the manual. We have just changed to a cordless phone for Argos, a BT Freelance XA500. I t has numbers on it and a display and looks like the picture on BT of what a text phone is but I am still not sure...

Only had this phone a couple of months but still not had time to read the manual.

How do you recieve and read texts?

I am on an old tariff which gives me free evening and weekend calls. The y keep trying to update me to this BT Together 2 or 3 but dont think it would be worth it.

Mary

rizla01

Apparantly it expires on the 1/12/05.

read on:-

BT ELECTRONIC PRICE LIST

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SECTION 2. CALL CHARGES & EXCHANGE LINE SERVICES
Part 1. Basic Inland Call Charges

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SUB PART 4: BT TEXT

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DESCRIPTIONOperative Date:13.04.2004



This service enables fixed line customers, subject to ELIGIBILITY below, to be able to send and receive SMS (text) messages to and from other suitably equipped fixed lines and most UK mobile networks. Operative Date:13.04.2004


ELIGIBILITYOperative Date:13.04.2004



To be able to send SMS (text) messages, customers must rent eligible business or residential fixed lines from BT, have a compatible telephone and subscribe to the Caller Display service. Operative Date:13.04.2004


Please note that the Caller Display Calling Feature is subject to availability. Operative Date:08.08.2005


This service is not available; Operative Date:13.04.2004


a) between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Operative Date:13.04.2004

b) via the operator, a Chargecard or Public Payphones. Operative Date:13.04.2004

c) to customers with the BT Pay & Call option. Operative Date:13.04.2004

d) to customers with the In Contact Plus option. Operative Date:13.04.2004

e) when sent to UK roaming mobiles. Operative Date:13.04.2004

f) when sent to or from Featureline customers. Operative Date:30.06.2005

g) to customers with the Call Barring service who have selected barring of operator calls. Operative Date:13.04.2004

h) to customers who withhold their numbers on outgoing calls (unless they release their number prior to sending the SMS message). Operative Date:13.04.2004

PRICING INFORMATIONOperative Date:13.04.2004



Please see Notice 39/05 for details of a special offer on texts on BT landlines for BT Together customers. Operative Date:05.10.2005


These prices apply for direct dialled texts from standard telephone lines (Business or Residential) and from Payphone lines when no Customer Option schemes are applicable. Operative Date:13.04.2004





Operative Date Price in Pence per Text

24 hr

Exc VAT
Inc VAT

pence pence
Text to a fixed line in the UK
13.04.2004 8.51
10.000

Text to a mobile telephone in the UK
13.04.2004 8.51
10.000

UK texts - to a premium rate service*
13.04.2004 N/A
N/A



* Texts to premium rate services are not currently available. Operative Date:13.04.2004


CONDITIONSOperative Date:13.04.2004



BT's `Terms and Conditions for Residential Service' or `Terms and Conditions for Business Service' apply. Operative Date:13.04.2004


The BT Text service is limited to 5000 text messages in any one hour period. Any customer who sends or receives texts in excess of this limit during this period will have the BT Text service deactivated from their line. Operative Date:30.06.2005


ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONOperative Date:13.04.2004



Discounts applicable to voice calls will also apply to BT Text unless stated otherwise. Operative Date:13.04.2004

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FOR EXPLANATION OF TAX EXCLUSIVE CHARGES AND APPROXIMATE TAX INCLUSIVE COSTS, SEE VALUE ADDED TAX IN GENERAL NOTES. THIS NOTE HAS NO CONTRACTUAL FORCE.

ISSUE NO 10

You also might find this site interesting.

go to http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/notifs/30-09-2005/Cust_Opts_Res.boo/3185_200509301149063.htm

petal_2

thanks for the advice. However, the cost of changing my equipment voids out the savings for me!

But great deal if you have the right equipment....!