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BT home phone prices going up 5%
Friday 02 December, 2011
By Anthony Hill
Line rental will be £14.60 a month from tomorrow.
BT customers face bigger home phone bills as prices go up this weekend.
Monthly line rental, selected call packages, broadband-only deals and calls to other UK landlines will increase by up to 5% from tomorrow.
This follows a 9% call charge hike in April this year and a 10% increase in 2010.
John Petter, managing director of BT’s consumer division, said: “We are making a series of price updates...but are then freezing some of our main prices until 2013. This will provide our customers with greater certainty over their bills.”
The cost of phoning other landlines will increase from 7.6p to 7.95p a minute, while monthly line rental jumps to £14.60. Meanwhile, BT’s Unlimited Anytime Calls plan - its most popular package with over three million customers - will go up by 20p to £4.90.
Summary of BT price rise:| Before | From 3 December 2011 | |
| Line rental | £13.90 a month | £14.60 a month |
| Unlimited Anytime Plan | £4.70 a month | £4.90 a month |
| Daytime local and national calls | 7.6p/min | 7.95p/min |
| Evening local and national calls | 1p/min | 1.05p/min |
| Call set-up fee | 12.5p/min | 13.1p/min |
However, the telecoms giant has vowed to freeze other prices at their current level until 2013. This includes BT’s Line Rental Saver, which allows customers to save money by purchasing 12 months’ line rental in one upfront payment of £120 - the equivalent of paying just £10 a month.
In November, BT announced pre-tax profits of more than £1billion, which it said was in part due to more customers opting for superfast broadband.
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