BT line rental rises

BT is to raise the monthly cost of line rental from £11.50 to £12.50, and is to increase the cost of daytime call charges; from the 1st of April, any calls not included in an inclusive minutes bundle like weekday daytime calls on an Evening & Weekends package, will be charged at a new rate of 4.5p per minute.

After having slashed the cost of calls to expensive 0870 and 0845 numbers, and relaunched another popular free BT Home Hub campaign, this move comes as something of a surprise.

The statement from BT reads thus:

We have also made some other price changes, including increasing line rental by £1. Ofcom has reviewed the costs for [BT Openreach] lines and as a result are proposing an increase in line rental charges. This is likely to put up line rental prices for most companies. However, the majority of BT customers can save £1.25 by opting for paper-free billing.

Vulnerable customers on our unique BT Basic option will continue to pay a subsidised line rental of just £4.40 a month, with £4.50 worth of calls included every quarter.

We have also slightly increased the set up fee by just over 1p a call and the cost of daytime calls to 4.5p a minute, although customers can avoid these charges on UK calls by taking our Anytime calls package.

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