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Originally Posted by themelon
Is that the standard package for £9.50??
For me personally BT £9.50 worked out very expensively as I had to pay 7.9p a minute for daytime calls which I doo tend to make a number of. I was getting bills in excess of £50 on BT the mostI have with ntl is £25
A lot depends on you preference in calls, but both services are equally bad or good. I dont think any company in this country is perfect.
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I did post the info before but im having trouble finding the thread & post...
BT Standard day time charge is still 7.9p a minute
BT Standard Line Rental is £9.50 paid via DD you get £2.15 worth of free off peak calls making BT's line rental £7.35 a month. (providing you use up all your free call allowance each month)
you also get a free answering machine service 1571 to get this free just ask BT CS it takes about 24hrs to set up
From the 1st February 2004, customers will pay the standard line rental fee for additional lines on the same BT Together account.
BT also do call options pay more rental & your charged a cheaper rate for phone calls...
BT Together Option 1
Rental £11.50 inc vat per month by DD
Day Time 3p a minute inc vat
Evening & Weekends 6p up to an hour per call
(up to 1 hour per call - if you talk for over an hour, every extra minute is charged at 1p)
BT Together Option 2
Rental £17.50
Day Time 3p a minute
Evening & Weekends No charge
(up to 1 hour per call - if you talk for longer, every extra minute is charged at 1p)
BT Together Option 3
Rental £28.50
Day Time No charge
(up to 1 hour per call - if you talk for longer, every extra minute is charged at 3p)
Evening & Weekends No charge
(up to 1 hour per call - if you talk for longer, every extra minute is charged at 1p)
All BT Together Options also offer you:
5% off all calls you make to UK mobiles.
Reduced Evening & Weekend calls to our most popular international destinations
Additional 10% discount on five Friends & Family Overseas numbers
Extra ways to save on International & Internet calls with a range of Add-ons
Friends & Family is a residential discount scheme that is free to join. You can nominate up to 10 numbers, including one international & one mobile number. You receive 10% discount on direct dialled calls to those nominated numbers. Your home telephone number is automatically added as an eleventh number so that you receive a 10% discount when you call your home number or your Friends & Family numbers using your BT Chargecard or Ring Me Free cards. Premium Rate Service numbers are excluded.
Friends & Family members can nominate one of their 10 existing Friends & Family numbers or their home number to be their BestFriend number. This means that they can enjoy an extra 10% discount on calls to that number, saving a total of 20%. However, the BestFriend number cannot be a mobile or international number.
Finally, Friends & Family members can receive a 10% discount on five further international numbers by joining Friends & Family Overseas. Friends & Family Overseas costs £1 per quarter for customers who do not have BT
Which is the cheapest NTL or BT? its swings & rounderbouts but i rekon the swing is more to the BT side depending on your phone usage.