"Changes to our prices in April 2011

Standard Line Rental
From 28 April 2011, our standard line rental charge will increase from £13.60 to £13.90 a month (£40.80 to £41.70 a quarter). If you already get the online billing discount, you'll still receive a discount of £1.25 a month (£3.75 a quarter) on the above prices (this discount is no longer available to new customers). These changes to our standard line rental charge won't affect you if you're on BT Basic, or if you have BT Line Rental Saver.

Call set-up fee
From 28 April 2011, the call set-up fee for calls from landlines not included in your Calling Plan will increase from 11.5p to 12.5p per call. BT Broadband Talk calls not included in your Calling Plan will also increase by the same amount.
Call set-up fees don't apply to:

•Weekend calls included in the Unlimited Weekend Plan
•Evening and weekend calls included in the Unlimited Evening & Weekend Plan or the BT Broadband Talk Evening & Weekend Plan
•Anytime calls included in the Unlimited Anytime Plan or the BT Broadband Talk Anytime Plan
•Calls to Freephone services or other inclusive calls not mentioned above

Daytime UK Calls
From 28 April 2011, the cost of UK landline calls made during the daytime will increase from 7.0p a minute to 7.6p a minute. These changes won't affect calls of up to an hour made with the Unlimited Anytime Calling Plan, or if you're on BT Basic or the Light User Scheme.

Calling Features
From 28 April 2011, the subscription charge for the Call Minder Calling Feature will increase from £2.60 to £3.00 a month (£7.80 to £9.00 a quarter) and the subscription charge for all other individual Calling Features will increase from £2.70 to £3.00 a month (£8.10 to £9.00 a quarter). The subscription charges for packs of 2-4 Calling Features will increase from £5.40 to £6.00 a month (£16.20 to £18.00 a quarter) and for packs of 5 or more Calling Features, from £7.30 to £8.00 a month (£21.90 to £24.00 a quarter). The per-use charges for Calling Features without subscription won't change.

Standard BT Total Broadband Option 1
From 28 April 2011, the Standard BT Total Broadband Option 1 charge will increase from £16.40 to £17.00 a month. If you're currently charged a lower price due to an offer/discount, you'll remain on the agreed price until the discount ends.

After that, the price will increase to £17.00 a month. This change won't apply to customers taking BT Total Broadband Option 1 as part of a package of services including phone and/or TV. To check which BT Total Broadband option you are on, check your BT bill or log in to My BT

All prices include VAT at 20%."




Source : http://www.calls.bt.com/pricechanges/?s_intcid=con_intban_YA_PCYA_Price

Am I alone in considering the setup fee to be obscene?

I pay no rental to Asda for my pay as you go mobile service yet they charge me no setup fee. Their per minute charges are a tad dearer for land line calls but I do have to stay on a long time before it becomes more expensive to use a mobile.

I pay for electricity and gas by the kilowatt hour. I don't get charged each time I put a light on or every time the boiler lights up.

Why do phone suppliers think they can charge overpriced rental and then each time we connect?

SilentCallsVictim wrote on Feb 4^th, 2011 at 11:05pm:

Indeed, BT is pushing the anytime 'plan' hard:
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So, I guess from that, this 'offer' is for only for those who are already on this plan. Not for those who who want to upgrade?

Mmmm, you may well be right SCV. As usual BT's T & Cs are ambiguous and confusing.

sherbert wrote on Feb 6^th, 2011 at 3:05pm:


Having a look at that comment, I may give BT a call this week, as we took out a "Broadband/Anytime Calls" deal with them, but the calls were @ £5.00 per month, for 12 months. Might be worth asking them.

Thanks,

It's making the use of mobiles more appealing depending on type of numbers mostly rung.

I pay £10pcm for unlimited texts, o2 to o2 calls, and 300 xnet mins.  Now BT line rental will be £13.90 and that doesn't include any calls made or tariff plans like BT's Anytime plan.

There is competition in the mobile market but yet in the landline market, they all basically follow suite.  During the next few months, Virgin, TalkTalk, Sky, etc will announce their price increases albeit some landline providers may not increase as much as BT but will be pretty close.

I agree with Dave in that if this was something that falls under trading standards remit, then something would happen but Ofcom just sits by.

Ever since Ofcom relaxed restrictions on BT's line rental charges, etc has everything just increases and not even one increase per year - some providers are increasing their prices a couple of times a year - most just copying BT.

sherbert wrote on Feb 9^th, 2011 at 1:59pm:
You are correct, my bad lol.

The point I was trying to make is that they are pricing themselves that high that those that don't need a landline will stick with a mobile.