B T Announce Big Price Increases

Line Rental UP £1 a month

Anytime call Package UP £0.55 a month

Standard price for BT Infinity up £2 a Month


With Inflation at a fraction of 1% and p Broadband demand increasing it is difficult to see how BT can justify this increase

Link to a news article in case anyone wants to find out more...

Per minute call charges and call setup charges are also rising.

Huge increase in broadband data and massive TV rights costs have to be paid by someone.

Edited by deleted (Fri 29-Apr-16 08:44:25)

And now by sheer co-incidence we will see a stream of other providers increasing their charges.

In reply to a post by lee111s:

massive TV rights costs have to be paid by someone.

That and all the cash backs and silly offers that they do all year round to lure new customers into their trap their TV service is a loss leader no 2 ways about it

And the other big ISP's will just like sheep follow BT with their price increases , that's your mass market isp mantra

Not a surprise anymore unfortunately, time they left line rental alone and hiked up the price of broadband and their TV packages (Sky TV packages are increasing)

Broadband and TV has also gone up e.g. Infinity 2 standard price from £30 to £32.50 and Total Entertainment from £15 extra to £16 extra.

There was a piece in the print edition of the Times the other day that said BT (OR) were planning to have packages offering Broadband only services, something which I think I've read about on here a while ago.

What was interesting was that the article also said that BT were planning to deliver voice services via Broadband (VoIP) and cease the old style telephone service by around 2025, something which I'd not heard before. Given the minimum call cost is going to be around 30p for a 1 minute call, I can see it hastening the arrival of domestic VoIP for those with decent connections and/or dodgy mobile services.

Presumably rural and remote communities would still be able to have old style telephone services unless the idea of a Broadband USO became a reality. Even then it would need to be as reliable as POTS, something I doubt would be achievable for a while yet.

Thank god my contract ends in the next few weeks...

In reply to a post by blfamily:

Thank god my contract ends in the next few weeks...

You could still leave even if your contract had 11 months left.

Ceasing traditional PSTN is an ambition and not a firm timeline commitment yet.

BIG is emergency call support, i.e. VoIP that requires the broadband router powered means supplying a battery backup as part of the USO.

SOGEA services on FTTC packages are on the way, just waiting to here about pricing before I run it up our news flag pole - the mainstream press has learnt about the product option though.

WARNING: SOGEA and or broadband only services may not be substantially cheaper than existing broadband + line rental, and a cautionary note they may even be more expensive e.g. added features that VoIP can add.

Also the SOGEA services are not planned for ADSL/ADSL2+ and thus any cease of traditional voice is difficult in a LLU world which Sky and TalkTalk use.

Thanks for the reply Mr Saffron - very interesting.

I thought 2025 might be ambitious especially in rural areas where quality is generally poor and there is no reliable mobile signal to cover for dropouts in case of emergency.

Already decided that pricing was unlikely to be significantly cheaper than existing, but with the rise in call setup charges it does make me wonder if there is an unspoken policy of driving people towards VoIP wherever that is possible.

Is now the time to do without anytime call add on charge and instead buy a sim card mobile deal with 1500 minutes + unlimited texts, available for about £7.50 upwards?

The connection charge is a racket, resulting in a ridiculous price for a one minute call especially if you find only an answer phone at the other end

When you take into account the fact that many deals no longer have any inclusive calls the price rises have been extraordinary

Ofcom really is supine

Not all providers, we for one have not had a price rise on voice line rental for years. Still sitting at £11.40 per month

Edited by vivaciti (Tue 03-May-16 12:11:06)

In reply to a post by vivaciti:

Not all providers, we for one have not had a price rise on voice line rental for years. Still sitting at £11.40 per month

Which show's that you clearly can cope with your line rental at such a good price!

As has been suggested before only the "big players" (as in the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk) who shift their prices up year on year!

Looks like it's time to support the "smaller" business!

PN line rental is going up from September this year!

There has been no official announcement , assume your basing this of last years price rise , which was September ?

seems shorter than 12 months since the last increase, am I wrong?