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Millions of BT customers are to be hit with the news on Saturday that prices will rise, MSE understands...

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• Amazing really when the wholesale price of phone lines is failing but the retail prices are still increasing.
  And across all the providers too.
• Just had a call from BT trying to get me to sign for Fibre Optic (18 month contract)and offering to reduce my inclusive calls by Ј2 ( from Ј7 to Ј5) offering Broadband at a discounted monthly price, but only 40gb( I have unlimited at the moment).....I asked about the forthcoming price increase and was told it was ONLY the line rental that was being increased .....I pay annually and it is due the end of this month....hope I beat the increase....would consider changing but I am out of sync now with line rental and Broadband, they should be back in sync next August, as my Broadband is on a previously agreed 18 month contract.
• i cannot understand why people are still with BT. they are the most expensive of all the internet and phone providers.
  their "deals" (i use the term "deal" loosely) are still miles off some providers standard prices.
  they seem to be one of the first to start bringing in 18 month contracts as opposed to 12 months (just like it happened in the mobile phone industry, it went from 12 months to 18 months to 24 months tied to on contract and for very little in return.
  Oh and the cost of BT line rental is the most expensive around.
  why oh why would you want to be ripped off from all directions by going with BT?
• If you pay for BT line rental a year in advance it is less expensive (none are cheap) than Sky and TalkTalk. If you want BT Sport it is cheaper to take a deal from BT paying slightly more for the broadband to get BT Sport free. You can also get Ј210 cashback plus a Sainsbury voucher if you sign up to BT via topcashback (new customers only). So BT can be a good deal, but with all the companies you have to be willing to haggle and/or switch.
• Am I mad here or is the line rental differential between all the different providers minimal?
• Even in many built up areas no Virgin Cables.
• I use BT Infinity + BT Vision (cheapest packages) but out of contract.
  The pre-pay line rental increases earlier this year were a shock and now this.
  I think that the `free' BT sport offered is not so free ...
• I agree the BT do give excellent service - generally, The option to reroute calls to a mobile while the problem is sorted was really helpful to me, but it just meant BT Openzone would then take 2 weeks to finally resolve the cable problem.
  BT (and the cartel) continue to raise prices every year but I've never seen a justification. Has electricity increased in price? Has technology improvements not resulted on lowering of costs and overheads? Or is it just an excuse to increase profitability and/or increase wages when the rest of us have been suffering austerity cuts?
  Why aren't they lowering the costs every year rather than increasing them?
  Last year they started charging for 1571 answer phone and caller display as well as increasing line rental.
  BT charge over 15p to connect a call before charging 8p per minute. If I ring from my Three mobile it is 3p per minute. How come it is cheaper for a mobile to call a land line?
  Perhaps it is time for OFCOM to switch attention from mobile roaming to landline charges instead.
  BTW - I've started to make savings my cancelling my anytime calls (Ј7 per month) and just having the free weekend option and using 18185 instead - now it's 3p to connect and 0p per minute for normal landline calls.
  When I can get rid of the phone line and just have a value-for-money broadband service I will...
• I joined Bt In Feb on a 18 month contract from Virgin because Virgin became useless at teatime for video streaming but was ok for online gaming etc, i jumped and at first Bt was great, but over the last few months my speed has dropped from 76mb, now upto 50mb,my ping has risen so online gaming often lags.
  I am wondering can i use this price increase to cancel my contract, i've just heard about the line rental and broadband increase on the tv news.
• Does anyone have any info on BT's new 'Home Phone Saver' tariff? This was outlined in the Guardian this morning (see link below), but there's nothing about it on the BT site yet (although the prices increases are flagged up).
  It appears to offer line rental and inclusive landline calls for Ј19.99 per month, but doesn't specify if those calls are 24/7, or weekend and evening only. If the former, that's effectively a Ј4.50 discount off the price after the December increase. However it doesn't say if Line Rental Saver is available with this tariff or not?
  https://www.theguardian.com/business/...dband-football