UK ISP BT has today refreshed some of the discounts on their FTTC, G.fast and “full fibre” FTTP based home broadband and phone packages, which aside from reducing the monthly fee has also removed the setup fee on many of their bundles for new customers.
As usual new customers can expect to receive an included wireless router, a 24-month contract term, unlimited data usage, Cloud storage (online backup), Virus Protect, Parental Controls, Call Protect (stops nuisance calls), the Stay Fast Guarantee (get the speeds they promise or £20 back) and free access to BT’s national network of public WiFi hotspots.
The current promotion is expected to run until the same time next week. Take note that BT, much like other ISPs, will currently increase the monthly price you pay each year from March 2022 by the rate of inflation (i.e. the Consumer Price Index rate, as published in January each year) plus 3.9%.
Fibre Essential
Average Download of 36Mbps (1Mbps upload)Price: £25.99 a month for 24 months (£33.99 thereafter) + £10 upfront
Fibre 1
Average Download of 50Mbps (10Mbps upload)
£50 BT Reward CardPrice: £28.99 a month for 24 months (£36.99 thereafter)
Fibre 2
Average Download of 67Mbps (20Mbps upload)
£100 BT Reward CardPrice: £30.99 a month for 24 months (£38.99 thereafter)
Full Fibre 100
Average Download of 145Mbps (30Mbps upload)Price: £39.99 a month for 24 months (£47.99 thereafter)
Full Fibre 300
Average Download of 300Mbps (49Mbps upload)Price: £49.99 a month for 24 months (£57.99 thereafter)
Full Fibre 900
Average Download of 900Mbps (110Mbps upload)Price: £59.99 a month for 24 months (£67.99 thereafter)
These aren’t discounted, the other week the prices where
Fibre Essential – Price: £23.99
Fibre 1 – Price: £27.99
Fibre 2 – Price: £29.99
And as for Full Fibre prices they haven’t changed
Full Fibre 100 – Price: £39.99
Full Fibre 300 – Price: £49.99
Full Fibre 900 – Price: £59.99
The BT sale is the new DFS sale…
BT marketing have must have been kissed by a prince and woken-up from their 100 year sleep – that saturation TV campaign is very soporific.
Talk about “Your chocolate ration has been restored”
Agree with Peter above… Prices haven’t changed for the following packages since at least March…
Full Fibre 100 – Price: £39.99
Full Fibre 300 – Price: £49.99
Full Fibre 900 – Price: £59.99
IMHO the back office “Support” staff in both BT and Openreach need to be dragged from their offices, presented with a pick and shovel and instructed to get digging trenches and laying that fibre in PDQ, before the current HMG has the opportunity to take eveybody back to the 14th century.
Outside London (I was looking at the map last night) the deployment is unbelievably patchy
All part of the superfarce tying folk into long contracts to stop altnets taking their customers.
Wow. So now Openreach are deploying full fibre at pace the contract lengths of BT’s retail business are the superfarce?
Just as well there are plenty of other options using the same networks with shorter contract durations, including BT’s own EE and Plusnet brands, so people can decline this offer and go elsewhere.
When one of these altnets honours this city with its presence, I don’t count Liberty Global as one, or indeed anyone deigns to build to this property I’ll have a look.
unbelievable
I think there’s a typo in the article as I think “Fibre Essential” has a 10Mb (not 1Mb) upload speed.
Mark – The Gfast haven’t changed in price still the same as before for both Fibre 100 and Fibre 250 £39.99 and £49.99 nothing is reduced! lol
I really dont agree with 24 month contracts. It just creates more debt.
I agree! Stupid of 24 month contract (that’s more suitable for business only) but for home as a residential should be 12 month!
Easy solution is to just not take them up on it. If you can get BT Retail you can get EE at 18 months and a bunch of other ISPs at 1-12 months.
Whilst I also dislike 24 month contracts, unless it’s a good deal which this isn’t, how does it create more debt?
Anyone notice there is no price change if you choose landline / no landline?
What’s the point in them having the landline on/off “switch” if there’s not even a penny difference?
If only they offered 900 Megs at half price (£29.99) for 18 months… That would be nice
> What’s the point in them having the landline on/off “switch” if there’s not even a penny difference?
The voice service costs little to provide, and arguably it subsidises the broadband line: there’s a chance you will be daft enough to pick up the handset and place a call at extortionate prices (or pay for a monthly call package)
So removing the voice service isn’t going to be reflected in reduced rental.
As for why not take it anyway – some people just don’t want to be bothered having a service that they know they’re not going to use.
Echo the comments on no price change although as Mark mentions the no set up fee I think that might have changed. A huge saving of £9.99! Ps if you search the forums on here you should be able to get a discount on these published prices. I got the 300mb fttp for 39.99pm
I managed to get Full Fibre 900 for £53.99 on a 24 month contract. I’m not sure I’d be paying £67.99 for it… As far as I knew £59.99 was the standard price for Full Fibre 900 and had been for a long time
Fibre essential (the one that’s essentially not real fibre) with an Average Download of 36Mbps (1Mbps upload) Priced at £25.99 a month for 24 months (£33.99 thereafter) + £10 upfront.
Such a offer is hilarious at best and Daylight robbery at worse. BT can do a lot lot better than this for they’re substandard “pretend fibre” package.
Ben got it spot on, it is like a DFS sale, except the quality is much worse.
It’s a false sale, they once did the exact same thing a month ago but when the sale ended another one with the exact same discounts popped up like an hour later.
Title and article is just a shill for BT.
Title is wrong. It is not a sale if the prices are the exact shame.
Rubbish article.