Reply To: BT Digital Voice Hi Just had a email today saying BT are moving me to Digital Voice and I’ll be emailed a date when this will take place. Just been on to BT…

[kev2021]

My existing FTTP and landline is in contract un 2024 (had to sign up to 2yrs) but they have told me that they plan to move me to digital voice and to make things easier it will be one price going forward and I can still pay line rental saver etc as the line rental isn’t for landline, its the lease fee from open reach for the line to my house.

So my take is BT are still goign to charge the line rental fee for as long as possible albeit make it as hide the line rental charge in the total interent conenction until more competitors come out and customers start to leave as they can get away with paying a cheaper price without line rental then BT will drop it al together i suspect.  Its a crafty way to make you still pay the same money, just in a diff area effectively.  So as an example.

Lets a FTTP with landline today costs £30 and Line rental for the landline is £20..

ATm you can pay line rentl up front and you only pay 11 months, the 12th is free as you paid in advance so once you pay that upfront, your monthly bill is £10.

So going forward you would image the same package that costs £30, without a landline/digital voice should therefore be £10 a month but oh no you still need to pay that £20 as well…

Whereas competitors are saying you can have FTTP for £25, no line rental to pay and no in-contract price rises.  I suspect these price are £25 purely because they are undercutting other main internet providers and also making a bit of profit due to the startup costs they have had etc as 2 in my area only started up in 2021 and one of them is actually running there own fibre cable (I’d of thought would made sense to use the existing one if its there but need to clarify that part nearer the time) so I’d be £5 a month (£120 over 2 years, taking it like for like with BT) and I also get a slight increases as the lowest package they do is 200mb instead of the 150mb and the 200mb is in both directions whereas i think BT 150mb is down but slowed, maybe 30 up?) So seems a bit of a con but they can get away with it atm so they will as they must realise eventually they will need to loose that £20 but they will just hike the prices anyway to recoupe it

Kev

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