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It isnt truly a case of everyone wins, consumers still need to pay ridiculous reconnection fees (these are typically £100 - £300, despite the fact there was an
by daleharvey 15y ago
It isnt truly a case of everyone wins, consumers still need to pay ridiculous reconnection fees (these are typically £100 - £300, despite the fact there was an active line before you moved in)
As well as being forced to pay line rental (£8-£15pm) for a bt phone line despite no intention of ever making any calls.
BT definitely won out of it, not sure anyone else did.
- arethuza 15y agoOn the subject of connection fees: "If a connection charge applies most people find they don't need to pay this it costs £30 if you're just taking a BT line or free with any broadband package." From: http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displayTopic.do?topicId=25497 http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displ... I'm pretty sure we didn't pay anything when we moved a while back.
- daleharvey 15y agoyes of course, if you get your broadband from bt :)
- TamDenholm 15y agoYep, i actually get charged a fee on top of my line rental because i dont make phone calls on it. I despise that i have to pay BT line rental then pay broadband from my other provider. I'd like to see 1 fee from my ISP of choice including line rental, just to make things simplier even if its the same price.
- xilun0 15y agoPaying both the incumbent operator and the ISP was the situation in France about ten years ago, at the very begining of DSL lines for the general public. It has been for ages that most people here only pay directly the ISP. Either the line is still owned by the incombent operator and the ISP lease it from him, or the line is bought by the ISP when necessary.