UK ISP BT Removes Capped Broadband Packages and Cuts Unlimited Prices

As most people known BT’s Consumer ISP division has long offered a range of broadband packages with capped usage allowances, at least it did until today as the options have been removed in order to avoid confusion. At the same time they’ve cut the price of their unlimited usage options.

One of the problems with BT’s capped options (e.g. 12GB of monthly data on their ‘up to’ 17Mbps service or 25GB on 52Mbps) is that they often didn’t benefit from the same heavy discounting as their unlimited services, which sometimes made them look more expensive and the provider says this caused some consumer confusion. Indeed the point of a capped service is that it should be cheaper for those with lower data needs.

The solution for BT has been to remove their capped options completely, although we’ve seen them do this before only to re-add revised packages at a later date. However for the time being there are no capped broadband and line rental packages on the ISP’s website and instead they’ve tweaked their current unlimited options to be a little cheaper than yesterday (this offer lasts until 20th April 2017).

Unlimited Broadband
* Download speeds of up to 17Mbps
* £9.99 Setup fee (one off)
* 12 Month Contract
* £100 Reward Card (MasterCard)

PRICE: £23.99 per month for 12 months (£40.99 thereafter)

Unlimited Infinity 1
* Download speeds of up to 52Mbps (9.5Mbps uploads)
* £59.99 Activation Fee (one off)
* £150 Reward Card (MasterCard)

PRICE: £28.99 per month for 12 months (£47.49 thereafter)

Unlimited Infinity 2
* Download speeds of up to 76Mbps (19Mbps uploads)
* £29.99 Activation Fee (one off)
* £150 Reward Card (MasterCard)

PRICE: £44.99 per month for 12 months (£53.99 thereafter)

As usual each package includes a 12 month contract, line rental, unlimited usage, free UK weekend calls, a wireless router (SmartHub on BTInfinity or HomeHub 4 for anything else), 100GB of BT Cloud storage (500GB on Unlimited Infinity 2), BT Virus Protect and Parental Controls, BT Call Protect (stops nuisance calls), free access to BT’s WiFi hotspots and BT SmartTalk (voice calls over Wi-Fi/4G).

Unlimited Evening and Weekend calls can also be added for £3.80/month or Unlimited Anytime Calls for an extra £8.99/month.