Pricing change for NTL telephony - rumour

[Neil]

Not quite sure what you are trying to say SMHarman....

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Neil

Not quite sure what you are trying to say SMHarman....

Superneds post seems to contain fact that looks similar to the rumour of the OP.

Superneds post says rounding will occur on Freedom calls. Calls on the cable network phones will remain unchanged.

IMHO it would be a very backward move to move to per minute billing when the rest of the market has gone the other way (though some might say thats NTL).

[Shaun]

Time Freedom customers looked elsewhere for their third party carrier calls, I personally wouldn't put up with this new per min billing and the fact that you generally get through to India when you call Freedom customer services.

There are many other carriers available, a good site for info is http://www.uswitch.com/

Originally Posted by zoombini

But its a rumour so it must be true, and we need to have a 300+ reply debate over it & we need it right now!

You are wicked but I like you.

Incog

[hansi]

Originally Posted by danielf

I can't say I'm too bothered. My last phone bill from my ntl line was 59p...

mine was only 13p using Telecom+ now

[zoombini]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

You are wicked but I like you.

Incog

Oooh, do I get a "wicked" award? lol

Originally Posted by zoombini

Oooh, do I get a "wicked" award? lol

No I haven't got one of them. Anyway it's a Dick Emory catchphrase.

Incog.

[poolking]

Originally Posted by danielf

I can't say I'm too bothered. My last phone bill from my ntl line was 59p...

Mines £1.21 on average, don't see why they don't just bill me yearly. It would save them money on printing out the bill and posting it each month.

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by poolking

Mines £1.21 on average, don't see why they don't just bill me yearly. It would save them money on printing out the bill and posting it each month.

There's a lot of "Billy no mates" use this forum - or else we're all geeks using other means of keeping in touch with our friends

* edit: I'm as sad as the rest of you lot - only £1.64 last month and as for the mobile phone, didn't get anywhere near the 45 minutes includive allowed on my tarrif

My last phone bill was 74 pence.

[Rillington]

This would mean that ntl would become 8p per call mor eexpensive than BT rather than 5p.

It becomes more of a rip-off every day (esp when you add in the £1 charge for a telephone bill and a £1 charge for 1571).

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by Rillington

This would mean that ntl would become 8p per call mor eexpensive than BT rather than 5p.

It becomes more of a rip-off every day (esp when you add in the £1 charge for a telephone bill and a £1 charge for 1571).

These changes only affect NTL Freedom (off-net) customers and not NTL Cable (on-net) customers.
If you had NTL Freedom, 1571 would be provided free by BT.

[scrotnig]

I think I can shed some light on this as it's an issue I have been trying to resolve.

The message about per-minute billing is currently being displayed on all Freedom bills. It only applies to Freedom customers, NOT customers who use an ntl telephone line.

Where the confusion has come about, is that customers with ntl lines who view their DIALUP bill on the web, will also see this message. Also stand alone cable modem customers who request a VAT invoice will see it too. It shouldn't have happened that way, but it did.

It does only apply to Freedom accounts, and I have not heard any plans to apply this to customers who have a full ntl telephone line, such customers need not be concerned.

[erol]

Originally Posted by Mark B

I think I can shed some light on this as it's an issue I have been trying to resolve.

The message about per-minute billing is currently being displayed on all Freedom bills. It only applies to Freedom customers, NOT customers who use an ntl telephone line.

Where the confusion has come about, is that customers with ntl lines who view their DIALUP bill on the web, will also see this message. Also stand alone cable modem customers who request a VAT invoice will see it too. It shouldn't have happened that way, but it did.

It does only apply to Freedom accounts, and I have not heard any plans to apply this to customers who have a full ntl telephone line, such customers need not be concerned.

Thanks for that clarification Mark. As I said in my original post this 'info' came to me as a rumour. It would seem that the displaying on the message on webbills for onnet customers is what has caused the confusion / concern.