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How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Oldjim — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:45:03 GMT

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/apr/29/bt-customers-face-summer-price-rises

BT said the cost of making a call to UK landlines and 0870 numbers will go from 10.24p a minute to 11p. Set up fees will also rise, from 17.07p to 19p, meaning a one minute call from a BT landline will cost a minimum of 30p. The price of the popular Unlimited Anytime Calls plan, which gives unlimited calls to most UK landlines, is increasing by 6.9%.

Most BT broadband customers – 6.2 million – use the copper network, the standard price for which will go from £13 to £15. Another 3.7 million use fibre broadband, branded Infinity, and will see their bills rise an average of £2.05.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

SpendLessTime — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:47:36 GMT

Less than 4 weeks is my bet.

And then TT , Sky, etc will follow quickly.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Oldjim — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:53:02 GMT

Full details http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bills-and-utilities/phone/bt-increases-cost-of-landline-broadband-calls-and-tv-for-million/

Breakdown of the price increases

Standard line rental is going up by £1 per month to £18.99 from £17.99

Line Rental Plus customers – who pay a premium for call barring services and priority line fixing – will also pay £1 more a month, from £19.99 to £20.99 per year

Line Rental Saver offers 10pc discount to customers who pay upfront for a year, saving £22.80.

The cost of BT Basic (its phone service for low-income customers) is not changing and remains at £5.10 per month

Broadband is going up for the majority of customers

Standard broadband is going up from £13 to £15 per year (although, BT says customers will receive 20pc extra usage allowance and security upgrades, worth £43 per year)

Unlimited broadband is going up from £13 to £18 per year

Infinity 1 is increasing from £20 to £21, Unlimited Infinity 1 is increasing from £23 to £26 and Unlimited Infinity 2 is going up from £30 to £32.50

BT Sport is going up bt £1 per month. It remains free for BT broadband and TV customers.

The call set-up fee is going up from 17.07p to 19p

Calls to UK landlines and 0870 numbers are going up from 10.24p to 11p per minute

The Unlimited Anytime Calls plan is going up from £7.95 to £8.50 per month

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Mayfly — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:54:12 GMT

Mid July-ish... It seems to me the price rise on average is every 11 months.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

w23 — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:02:32 GMT

Standard broadband is going up from £13 to £15 per year (although, BT says customers will receive 20pc extra usage allowance and security upgrades, worth £43 per year)

Unlimited broadband is going up from £13 to £18 per year

An error in the article?

Plusnet line rental 'always' increases just too early for me to renew my line rental saver at the old price.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

billnotben — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:03:56 GMT

It will go up soon as.

Followed by lots of "free broadband" offers.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Oldjim — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:12:57 GMT

slightly more accurate http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/uk-isp-bt-unveils-home-broadband-phone-price-hikes-2016.html

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

gleneagles — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:08:22 GMT

Whilst the government and others are encouraging more people and in particular the elderly to get on line these price increases are unlikely to encourage people at a time when most peoples income is not rising at the same rate as these increases.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Townman — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:14:24 GMT

Well all of these crass stupid free boardband and TV package deals need to be paid for somehow.

When these TV bundles were originally muted, I did say that the rest of us would pay for other's "free lunches" - seems I was not wrong. This increase is way above annual inflation, let alone the increase in the 9 months since the pervious price change. Incomes have typically risen by only 1%.

Anyone noticed how BT Retail's price hikes arrive earlier each year .. Dec, Sept and now July. What's the betting on next year's? April?

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

w23 — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:16:04 GMT

Come 2018 they'll have to have 2 'Annual' price increases in the same year at that rate.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Oldjim — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:30:36 GMT

another set but doesn't include the changes to anytime calls http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7406-line-rental-and-broadband-price-rises-on-the-way-to-bt-retail.html

The majority of the latest round of price rises take effect on 3rd July 2016 and the list of key changes is:

Line rental going up to £18.99/month from £17.99/month

Line rental saver rises to £205.08 (equivalent of £17.09/month

Call set up fee rises to 19p

Weekday calls will be 11p/minute

BT Kids, Kids Extra and Music rising to £4/month

Standard price for Unlimited ADSL2+ will be £20/month

Standard price for Unlimited Infinity 1 will be £26/month

Standard price for Unlimited Infinity 2 will be £32.50/month

Standard price for Unlimited Infinity 3 will be £45/month

Standard price for Unlimited Infinity 4 will be £52/month

BT Total Entertainment will be £16/month

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

richald — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:09:17 GMT

I think I have all or most of the (annual?) emails informing of price rises - I shall dig them out, since I suspect that the rate the charges have been increasing well outstrips inflation - I'm not bothered about what BT charges but I don't think plusnet can justify slavishly following them - and yes I know that plusnet is owned by BT

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

godsell4 — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:54:17 GMT

How will BT increase usage allowances on an already 'unlimited' account?

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

AlaricAdair — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:39:57 GMT

I have an alternative broadband service in place and operational. I'm also outside the PN contract period. So I can switch away instantly with no loss of connectivity. It will be interesting to see what PN tries to do with my subscription fees.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

nanotm — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 08:21:22 GMT

@godsell4 wrote:

How will BT increase usage allowances on an already 'unlimited' account?

they will increase the fair use policy cap from 100gb/mth to 150gb/mth ?

when the country votes ot leave the EU perhaps we can renationalise BT lower the prices and monopolise the service afterall a national company doesn't require to feed millions into the bank accounts of over priced managers (civil service pay tops out around 140k a year..... not a couple of million a year) nor chase extra cash for the share holders bubbly ....

who knows it might even employ people instead of contracting out to minimise the pension hit so the top level can take another couple of mill a year in bonuses, meaning they can actually roll out upgrades on time and still perform maintenance in a timely fashion .....

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Townman — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:54:59 GMT

OT: Please ignore - notification behaviour test - 6 posters since my prior post here.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Anotherone — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:27:08 GMT

Quote from ISPreview:

This year BT are also promising to fix line faults faster for all of their voice and broadband customers by “upgrading them to a higher level of service, which means we will send an engineer 24 hours faster than before, if a home visit is needed“.

Well Plusnet won't be doing that will they, it takes them 3x longer than that (at least) to look at a fault ticket and that's after you've managed to get one raised Never mind stirring Openretch into effective action

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Apprentice — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:51:45 GMT

The last PN price increase was in the autumn I just managed to pay for the LRS at the pre autumn 2015 price.

The second PN price increase this year wil therefore be in the September-October period

Hopefully there will only be the one increase in prices this year and possibly it too will be in the autumn like last year!

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

trekrich — Sun, 01 May 2016 10:31:47 GMT

18.88 a month a land line that a lot of people might not use, is getting a bit steep.

Re: How long before Plusnet put up their prices to follow big brother

Townman — Sun, 01 May 2016 10:41:07 GMT

Lets be clear here, everyone connected to the internet, not using Virgin or a wireless services IS USING their BT supplied landline. It needs to be managed and repaired however it is (or is not used).

The use of that line for voice is not a significant cost overhead. Given that BB needs a better quality line than that required to deliver voice, voice only lines need a lower level of repair and maintenance than that required for good BB service.

There seems to be a "I only want to pay for what I need" attitude on this matter. If that's the case, I'm sure that those putting forth this perception will be happy to see the cost of a 'phone' line, for phone only use, fall whilst the cost for a 'broadband' line rises to reflect the true higher costs of providing and maintaining a line capable of delivering and fulfilling the never ending thirst for faster and faster speeds at a lower and lower cost per volume of use?