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Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

bobpullen
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

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This suggests that you can charge for deferred cost ( like hardware etc) if leaving due to a material disadvantage, surely that is not correct?
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47. If we have made a change which is to your material disadvantage, you will not have to pay a charge (excludes any charges or payments we have deferred) if you decide to end your agreement early, unless the price guide says otherwise. However, once we have told you about such a change, you must let us know that you want to end the agreement within 10 days.


I'll double check but in the past we've charged for deferred costs when we've done this sort of thing. Having said that, most people actually have true 'profit foregone' contracts now rather than deferred charges.
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But I thought the £2.50 surcharge only applied to new customers. So switching from Value to Essentials counts as becoming a new customer then? That doesn't seem very fair. Sad

As Jim's pointed out with the quote from Chris's post, the £2.50 surcharge is applicable in this instance. It's made very clear during the upgrade journey prior to committing.
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So let me see if I have got this right.
I am on Talk anytime and Plusnet unlimited BB, so my line rental goes up £1.00 and Talk anytime goes up 50p ...

Yes that's right. the email you receive should make this clear.
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I read in a money column the other day that BB prices were tumbling, so how is this warranted.

I think it's fair to say they have/are when you compare the price of today's broadband offerings with those over the last decade.

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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

I must be dense.  I have line rental and unlimited BB, will I see this price increase?
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

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Yes that's right. the email you receive should make this clear.

So to save myself the £1.50, I can keep my unlimited BB which will remain the same price whether I have phone or not through PN, and just take my Phone elsewhere ?
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

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I must be dense.  I have line rental and unlimited BB, will I see this price increase?

No, apart from the Line rental increase.
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

Since Plusnet want to charge extra unless you transfer your telephone service to them:-
Why not consider transferring your broadband away from Plusnet to your current phone provider.
It's likely that they'll give you some special deal.
Worth a look anyway.
BTW BT have never sent me an incorrect bill - I see people complaining about Plusnet's accounting system
all the time. I would never let them near my phone service.

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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

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I must be dense.  I have line rental and unlimited BB, will I see this price increase?

Your line rental will increase if you're currently paying £13.99 for it. The email you receive will explain the situation tailored to your particular circumstances.
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Yes that's right. the email you receive should make this clear.

So to save myself the £1.50, I can keep my unlimited BB which will remain the same price whether I have phone or not through PN, and just take my Phone elsewhere ?

Depends when you moved to Unlimited? If it was after mid/late June then it's likely you'd start paying the £2.50 surcharge.

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It's commendable not to increase the price for existing customers, but for how long, one wonders.

Okay thanks for clarifying Bob. Looks like I should have kept my mouth shut. Roll_eyes
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

Here was me thinking of moving to {self censored}  LLU to save money (Sky is more expensive) then found this https://sales.talktalk.co.uk/pricing/info/pricing-notification
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

BT share price over just one year:-

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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

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Here was me thinking of moving to {self censored}  LLU to save money (Sky is more expensive) then found this https://sales.talktalk.co.uk/pricing/info/pricing-notification

Basically, they are all putting their prices up.  I wonder why line rentals are going up in price.  They seem so expensive these days.
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

It's Monopoly Capitalism.

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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

Must be something 'special' about 1st October then.  BT Wholesale/Openreach announced charge increases to ISPs/CPs????
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

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BT share price over just one year:-

I suspect a lot of that has to do with the BT Sport announcement.

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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

There was an interesting interview on BBC  News this morning with a boss at BT, with the "free" Sports / BB offer, they will make a loss of £300m, but if they did nothing, a loss of £700m, or thereabouts.
Quite a few new subscribers to BT BB / Sports were from SKY customers, though he didn't give figures.
Many new BB / Sport subscribers have BT phone lines.

No doubt interview this will be repeated on BBC News channel throughout the day.
I wasn't really listening, must try & catch a repeat.

BT is seen as the first viable alternative to SKY for a long time, and they have lots of money, and infrastructure.
It was ironic though, during the BBC interview, the line time ran out, and we got a BT Line placeholder caption !!!
Steve Hewlett the Media Commentator knows his stuff, and was a good Guest.
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Re: Pricing/Terms changes - October 2013

This is pretty close to the content of the interview you are describing - http://www.makingbusinesswork.org/8-mbw-latest-business-news/7949-bt-to-launch-sports-tv-channels.ht...