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Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

jaygee
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Registered: ‎21-10-2011

Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Just stumbled on this but don't want to sign up without seeing terms and conditions -are they posted somewhere?   BT's yearly offer requires 2 calls/month or £1.50 is levied. Does the Plusnet yeary rental have any minimum call requirements?
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Chris
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Quote from: glloyd
And customers are going to pay for it.

Yes our prices are increasing, a number of telcos have already increased their prices. We're still cheaper than a substantial amount of them and with the Line Rental Saver offer it works out even better.
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pierre_pierre
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

@Adam, a lot got in before me, but I repeat I am on the legacy 240 package, you dont pay any extra, just the line rental, so my original statement holds, both packages are £12.99
And can you confirm that slipped in bit that legacy package holders can reduce there line rental after 6 Dec without changing packages?
As this is what is on the blog
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What you need to know
-Line Rental Saver is available on our current call packages only: Talk Anytime; Talk Evening & Weekends and Anytime International 300.
alanf
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Quote from: PlusComUK
T&C's
https://portal.plus.net/apps/linerental/saver/register#terms

I'm on Legacy Homephone 240 - Following the above link I get "Line Rental saver isn't available on your current call plan." (my emphasis)
My choices are
Stay as I am- Pay price increase.
Sign up to Talk Evenings And Weekends - Pay lump sum and for daytime calls
Sign up to Talk Anytime - Pay lump sum + £3.50pm
So unless I can get 240 included minutes anytime at no extra cost (and the Ts&Cs say that I can't)  I will stay as I am.
peter10
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

What will happen if the price of the call package increases by a large amount? Will we be able to change to another supplier and get a proportion of the prepaid amount back as the conditions of the phone package will have changed to our detriment or is the line rental treated as a separate part from the call plan? I have a feeling from the t & c that we will be a bit exposed to PN call package  pricing for a year. I am just a little suspicious of PN as they put the price up after a big ad campaign.
On a separate note I raised a question re another matter concerning the new line rental and received the reply within 10 minutes so well done there.
adamwalker
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

@peter10
We have no plans at all to change the price of our call packages. If we increased the price even by a penny it would be to your detriment and we would be obliged to provide you with 30 days notice of the change and the ability to cancel without honouring the remainder of your contract.
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pierre_pierre
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

can you please answer about the legacy 240, you have two people asking
Quote from: pierre_pierre
@Adam, a lot got in before me, but I repeat I am on the legacy 240 package, you dont pay any extra, just the line rental, so my original statement holds, both packages are £12.99
And can you confirm that slipped in bit that legacy package holders can reduce there line rental after 6 Dec without changing packages?
As this is what is on the blog
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What you need to know
-Line Rental Saver is available on our current call packages only: Talk Anytime; Talk Evening & Weekends and Anytime International 300.

adamwalker
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Already answered that question PP, check reply #22
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It's not a restriction per-se as its available to all other customers with legacy phone packages and new home phone customers after 6th December.

That would include that package.
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peter10
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Thanks for the reply Adam.
So am I right in thinking that if the call packages increased in price (and I accept that you have no plans to at the moment) and I decided to change to another supplier then I would get a proportional refund of any already paid annual line rental saver?
Also if the broadband price increased would I be able to move the broadband  to another supplier and leave the phone with Plusnet until the annual line rental saver runs out?
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pierre_pierre
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

I had seen your reply 22, but your blog and the sign up page do not agree with you
sign up attempt https://portal.plus.net/apps/linerental/saver/register
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Line Rental saver isn't available on your current call plan.
Line rental saver is available on the following call plans:
   Talk Evenings and Weekends
   Talk Anytime
   Talk Anytime International 300
You can change to an eligible call plan and then register for Line Rental Saver once your new call plan has started. Line Rental Saver will be available through 'Product Change' from 6th December 2011.
philipb
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

We only joined a month ago (bog standard Phone E&WE and Value Broadband), but even with the increase getting both for £13 pm (£9.50 LRS + £3.50 (1/2 price BB offer)) seems a pretty excellent deal.
Dom
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Hi Adam/Chris,
As a broadband customer who signed up back in September, I took the 12-months of broadband (and associated line rental) offer because I figured I'd be needing the line for at least a year, and it made sense to sign up for that long.
Now it's November, I've got 10 months left of that contract (if that's what you want to call it) and so what happens if I sign up for the Line Rental Saver deal? Will I still pay the full £113.88 for 12 months line rental, even though I only have 10 months left  of my contract to pay for; or will I pay less than £113.88? (Ten months @ £9.49 works out at £94.90 - is that what I'd pay?)
If I do still pay the full £113.88 for the 12 month Line Rental Deal, does that mean my broadband contract will roll over by an extra two months at the end, as I'd already have paid for 2 months line rental as part of the Line Rental Deal?
Thanks in advance!
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adamwalker
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Hi Dom,
Whereas you needed to take the line rental in order to get the 12 months of half price broadband the line rental won't have been reduced. In other words if you took on the line rental saver offer you would pay £113.88. Obviously the half price offer would still stand and would mean that the broadband subscription would still be half price for the next 10 months.
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Dom
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Re: Home Phone Price changes and Line Rental Saver

Ah right, OK. Broadband and line rental are separate beasts; cool.
I do have one other quick question though: 12 months half price broadband? Is that what I signed up for? If it is, I don't think that's what I've got. I signed up for 12 months of broadband and got the router for free, but as far as I can tell I still pay £11.49 for the Extra package each month (plus the £11.99 line rental, of course). Although it's a bit hard to tell at the moment because since signing up,  I've only had one bill that didn't include something extra like an engineer's call-out charge, delivery for the router, etc.
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