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Post Office £50 + another £15
Feb 14^th, 2006 at 8:02am

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Looking for a great value phone service? Then switch to Post Office™ HomePhone now for cheaper line rental than BT, great call rates and fantastic service with no minimum contract. If you switch to Post Office™ HomePhone before 31st March, they'll give you £50 off your bill as well as getting £15 GreasyPalm Cashback!

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mc661 Senior Member Offline Habitual FOI requester. Posts: 432 West-Norfolk Gender:	Re: Post Office £50 + another £15 Reply #1 - Feb 16^th, 2006 at 2:33am £50 credit is including vat and will be applied as two credits of £25 on your SECOND and THIRD bills.
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NonGeographicalMan Ex Member	Re: Post Office £50 + another £15 Reply #2 - Feb 16^th, 2006 at 9:22pm mc661 wrote on Feb 16^th, 2006 at 2:33am: £50 credit is including vat and will be applied as two credits of £25 on your SECOND and THIRD bills. First Bill at 0 months and second and third bills sent at 3 and 6 months. Then you can leave for the next line rental offer with another company.
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mc661 Senior Member Offline Habitual FOI requester. Posts: 432 West-Norfolk Gender:	Re: Post Office £50 + another £15 Reply #3 - Feb 18^th, 2006 at 12:58am isnt it 12 month contract?
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NonGeographicalMan

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Reply #4 - Feb 18^th, 2006 at 2:26am

mc661 wrote on Feb 18^th, 2006 at 12:58am:

isnt it 12 month contract?

No. You only have to stay for 6 months to get the £50 back off the line rental. 12 months would be TalkTalk and the money back with them is only against calls and not line rental.

See www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=19300217&mediaId=22900487

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offer Terms & Conditions
This offer applies to new Post Office™ HomePhone customers only
A total of £50 will be credited to every customers’ bill if the date of application is between the dates 1st January and 31st March 2006
The offer closes at midnight on 31st March 2006
£25 will be credited to the second bill (+3 mnths after go live) and the third bill (+6 mnths after go live)
Customers are free to leave the service at any time, however the credits will only be applied if the customer has an active Post Office™ HomePhone account on the dates of their second and third bill
The £50 offer includes VAT
This offer is limited to one per account only
Existing Post Office™ HomePhone customers cannot cancel and reapply to get the new offer
Standard residential line required
Standard Post Office™ HomePhone terms and conditions apply.

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Shiggaddi

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Reply #5 - Feb 18^th, 2006 at 10:44pm

This new offer of £50 sounds good, and might give it a go, depending on who I go with for my new ISP after I finally managed to ditch NTL freedom. Currently top of the list is V21, but they insist on setting up a CPS service meaning no to homephone.

I do however have mobiles with free minutes, and heavily rebated line rental (to the extent that I'm being paid to have the phone!!) meaning I don't need to make calls with Homephone at all.

I recently signed up with BT privacy to get caller display for free. I assume that the post office won't be able to offer this (for free), but for the sake of getting £50, it won't matter too much.

And the offer of £50 has been around for a while for Royal Mail employees, as we were told about it I think in September, and I was tempted to sign up. I saw the current leaflet which is displayed where I work, and there's no additional offer above what everyone else gets now, so I might as well sign up through a cashback site and get the extra £15!!

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Reply #6 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 12:45am

Shiggaddi wrote on Feb 18^th, 2006 at 10:44pm:

I recently signed up with BT privacy to get caller display for free. I assume that the post office won't be able to offer this (for free), but for the sake of getting £50, it won't matter too much.

I can confirm I called and asked them about this about 3 weeks ago, and no it isn't free (about £3.50 I think, from memory), despite the fact that their leaflet says that all calling features are the same price as BT!

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trevord Full Member Offline Posts: 248 West Sussex, UK Gender:	Re: Post Office £50 + another £15 Reply #7 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 12:47am Also, you can't use 1899, etc. if you go with post office Homephone.
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NonGeographicalMan

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Reply #8 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 1:03pm

trevord wrote on Feb 19^th, 2006 at 12:47am:

Also, you can't use 1899, etc. if you go with post office Homephone.

The general evidence from other members is that you can use 1899 or 18185 with the Post Office HomePhone, especially if you are already a subscriber to these services when you join them. They reserve the right to stop you using these services but so far they have not done so. You could always cancel with the Post Office if they did this as there is no one year contract.

Anyhow I am buying a Sipura SPA 3000 for £64 inc VAT and delivery from www.microwarehouse.co.uk and plan to start making my calls with www.voipcheap.co.uk, which will save lots more money. The Post Office can't control your Voip providers, the only person who can do this would be your broadband ISP and only someone like AOL or Wanadoo might have the nerve to try to force you to use their Voip offering.

I would find it a little annoying if the PostOffice blocked 18185 as they are the cheapest way to make mobile and 0870 calls. And there is no voip equivalent to 18185.

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Reply #9 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 8:54pm

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I would find it a little annoying if the PostOffice blocked 18185 as they are the cheapest way to make mobile and 0870 calls. And there is no voip equivalent to 18185.

Why Haven't they done it yet then , Eah ?
I would fire the Post Master General's Director of manipulating the tarrifs., for not keeping an eye, at weekends.

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trevord Full Member Offline Posts: 248 West Sussex, UK Gender:	Re: Post Office £50 + another £15 Reply #10 - Feb 20^th, 2006 at 12:20am Quote: trevord wrote on Feb 19^th, 2006 at 12:47am: Also, you can't use 1899, etc. if you go with post office Homephone. The general evidence from other members is that you can use 1899 or 18185 with the Post Office HomePhone ... Apologies if I was wrong - I was just going on what they told me.
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NonGeographicalMan

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Reply #11 - Feb 20^th, 2006 at 8:09am

joe65 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2006 at 8:54pm:

Why Haven't they done it yet then , Eah ?
I would fire the Post Master General's Director of manipulating the tarrifs., for not keeping an eye, at weekends.

It is Ofcom who decided that in the name of EU competition legislation (the claim of their senior wholesale line rental policy people to me) that the Wholesale Line Rental specification must include the ability to block the use of carriers via the Indirect access code and a denial of CPS routing with other carriers (because unlike BT other phone carriers are not seen to have significant market power so do not have to open up their service to give easy access to competitor call carriers). The main problem though is the extortionate charge of around £28 per quarter which BT is allowed by Ofcom to charge TalkTalk, PostOffice etc for supplying Wholesale Line Rental rather than a charge which genuinely reflected BT Wholesale's true costs (as opposed to the creative accounting it has presented to Ofcom and which its Ofcom buddies have as usual just signed off) such as £5.50 to £11.00 per quarter (that my gas, water and electricity companies all charge me as a retail customer for quarterly line rental). BT bizarrely seems to expect that its customers must actually fund all its future capital investment program in its network for them via its BT Option 1 standing charge line rental, rather than its shareholders or loans from banks funding this investment, which is the normal method in business.

Anyhow coming back to the main issue it seems that the Post Office is not too keen on taking a hard line on indirect access because it wishes to peddle the line that the Post Office's phone line rental is physically the same and as good in all respects as BT's while its calls and the line rental are a little cheaper (even though this is clearly not true of Caller Display which it charges for at £2.50 per month or £7.50 per quarter when it can be free on BT Option1 with BT Privacy). Of course if it finds it has a huge problem with all its phone customers being heavy indirect access users it may do something about the indirect access calls but in practice it seems unlikely that people like ourselves will be more than a tiny percentage of the Post Office's Home Phone customers.

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Reply #12 - Feb 20^th, 2006 at 8:12am

trevord wrote on Feb 20^th, 2006 at 12:20am:

Apologies if I was wrong - I was just going on what they told me. Embarrassed

It appears that pre-existing 1899 and 18185 access carries on as normal although the Post Office are of course not exactly overly keen to confirm this.

Obviously if the worst came to the worst you could just cancel Post Office Home Phone right away as there is no minimum contract period you are committed to. And then you would be back with BT or a rival WLR provider in 7 to 10 days or so.

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Reply #13 - Feb 20^th, 2006 at 3:01pm

I will be going to the post office homephone shortly. Do they actually charge the same as BT for line rental? The big decider is of course the free £50, and I'll be looking into getting the extra £15 as well.

As for calling other landlines, I'll be using my mobile inclusive minutes on the contract which I'm getting at heavily rebated line rental, to the extent I'm being paid to have a mobile!! This means no need to make any calls at all via homephone!!

After I receive the £50, then it's time to decide whether it's worth going back to BT, to get the free BT caller display, or maybe by then, WLR might get to include free caller display!!

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NonGeographicalMan

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Reply #14 - Feb 20^th, 2006 at 3:08pm

Shiggaddi wrote on Feb 20^th, 2006 at 3:01pm:

Do they actually charge the same as BT for line rental?!

No they charge £9.95 a month or £29.85 per quarter compared to BT's new £11 per month or £33 per quarter. So that £3.15 offsets part of the extra quarterly cost of £7.50 for Caller Display. Or you can make do without the Caller Display and put 2 x 3.15 = £6.30 in your pocket on top of the £50 cashback and the £15 www.greasypalm.co.uk cashback.

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