BT increasing overuse charges - again!

CliffyBiro · 28 Feb 2009 at 12:25

Please note that we are making some changes to our usage allowances and charges. From 1 April 2009, Option 2 usage will be increasing to 20GB a month, which means you will be able to do more of your favourite things online within your monthly subscription. We are also increasing our charges for over usage to £1 per extra GB for all customers who are not on unlimited products.

http://bt.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bt.c..._cats=346&s_cid=con_FURL_broadbandusagepolicy

Up from a current 58p which was up from just 10p per GB.

rypt · 28 Feb 2009 at 12:34

People still use BT?
O2/Be f t w

Will_3rd · 28 Feb 2009 at 12:38

rypt said:
People still use BT?

This.

Unless your a grandma who needs to e-mail her grandchildren now and again, I would think about getting another ISP.

CliffyBiro · 28 Feb 2009 at 12:39

Will_3rd said:
This.

Unless your a grandma who needs to e-mail her grandchildren now and again, I would think about getting another ISP.

It's my Mum who pays for it and she would rather pay through the phone bill and so went with BT.

If it was me, I would go with Twang.

F2kSel · 28 Feb 2009 at 12:43

They don't have the bandwidth now and they're going to allow a greater amount of downloads, it should make good reading in the forums when this happens.

Garyj881 · 1 Mar 2009 at 13:17

rypt said:
People still use BT?
O2/Be f t w

You serious ?, theres a 95 page speed &latency thread.

A lot are thinking of leaving.

Nymins · 1 Mar 2009 at 13:20

Garyj881 said:
You serious ?, theres a 95 page speed &latency thread.

A lot are thinking of leaving.

You sure you're not thinking about O2 Access rather than O2/Be LLU?

Not had any problems with O2 coming from ADSL24. Best ISP i have ever had.

CurlyWhirly · 1 Mar 2009 at 18:02

Nymins said:
You sure you're not thinking about O2 Access rather than O2/Be LLU?

Best ISP i have ever had.

Ditto.

Mr-White · 1 Mar 2009 at 18:45

jump ship, theres better ISPs about

MW

Robert1986 · 1 Mar 2009 at 18:51

good thing i'm on unlimited.

Jamesdavid3 · 1 Mar 2009 at 21:12

Im also on unlimited, however BT is total ****!

Slow connection, So much throttling, Stupid Peak times when you can even load pages.

Tute · 1 Mar 2009 at 21:41

I'm on BT, no choice here. It's BT or nothing as far as broadband is concerned.

Actually, we have the option of Tiscali. If you could call that an option.

And OT, Skippi you have the coolest sig ever. \o/

Caged · 1 Mar 2009 at 23:03

Tute said:
I'm on BT, no choice here. It's BT or nothing as far as broadband is concerned.

How is that ever true? OK you might not have any LLU providers, but that doesn't limit you to BT Broadband.

tolien · 1 Mar 2009 at 23:17

Unless your exchange was enabled under the Exchange Activate scheme, in which case your choice is BT or one of at most 5 others, depending if they could be arsed.S

Tute · 2 Mar 2009 at 00:04

Caged said:
How is that ever true? OK you might not have any LLU providers, but that doesn't limit you to BT Broadband.

Pop WWCRED into Samknows and have a look for yourself.

It took a petition to get BT to enable the damn exchange for BB in the first place, so I wasn't expecting miracles with regards to choice.

In all fairness, BT are "okay" - nothing to write home about, but since I lost it on the phone to them 6 months ago the service has been reasonable.

a1ex2001 · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:25

Never had a problem with BT but then I just surf the internet and don't download movies 24/7. To be honet I think BT get a pretty bad press without real justification allthough there prices are creeping up so I am reviewing my options.

Rabtech · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:27

BT as an ISP are overpriced and you can get the same levels of service and much better customer support elsewhere. Ive recently worked on a few clients machines remotely with BT connections, they seem to throttle even http traffic heavily at peak times.

You'd think with their acquisition of Plusnet they'd at least know how to configure traffic management hardware properly.

Nymins · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:48

Tute said:
Pop WWCRED into Samknows and have a look for yourself.

It took a petition to get BT to enable the damn exchange for BB in the first place, so I wasn't expecting miracles with regards to choice.

In all fairness, BT are "okay" - nothing to write home about, but since I lost it on the phone to them 6 months ago the service has been reasonable.

Yea but your not limited to just BT. You can choose any other ADSL ISP like any Entanet reseller right?

Jamesdavid3 · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:49

When are BT going to upgrade again? it seems all other ISP's are getting better and faster. BT's still the same for years. doesnt make me want to stay with them at all because there offering me the same rubbish.

Yamahahahahaha · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:55

21CN will see ADSL2+ products delivered in the next year or two.