More Details of BT Mobile’s Forthcoming UK Price and Packages Surface
Over a week has passed since BT announced the revival of their BT Mobile brand for basic 30 day rolling SIM Only contracts with capped data allowances (here), which will only be available to BT’s Consumer broadband customers (unlimited data and handset bundles remain EE’s domain). But ISPreview has now managed to uncover more details of the provider’s mobile plans.
According to our sources, the full relaunch of BT Mobile – available both online and via calling (but not in their retail shops, where EE remains the focus, for now) – will take place this week on Wednesday 20th May 2026. As above, all of the new mobile plans will be 30-day rolling SIM Only deals and should also come with EU roaming at no extra cost, as well as access to common features like access to BT / EE’s public WiFi hotspots.
BT Mobile will include Scam Threat Protection features to notify you of nuisance calls before you answer (much like EE already does) and will initially only be available as physical SIM cards (no eSIM options, yet). In terms of the new mobile plans themselves, we understand that pricing will start at £9 per month for 10GB of data (mobile broadband), then £13 for 15GB, £15 for 30GB and finally £18 for 75GB.
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Suffice to say the new mobile plans aren’t going to set the market alight with any big surprises, but that was never the provider’s goal, and they’re also roughly in keeping with a lot of similar plans elsewhere, if admittedly not the cheapest. Further details are due to be released on the official launch.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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I find the concept of limiting your customer base to be a very bizarre concept. This would be like Sky making it so you can only sign up for Sky Mobile if you’re a Sky Broadband customer. Any product you market should be a segway into your other products, not an add-on for another product.
It just kills your momentum on launch. I wouldn’t consider BT Mobile simply by virtue of the fact I’m not a BT Broadband customer.
It’s got more to do with retaining existing customers, not gaining new ones (that’s what EE’s for).
I find killing BT Mobile and Plusnet Mobile, only to bring BT Mobile back bizarre.
It’s a trial, last time they launched BT Mobile it was limited to mainly BT Broadband customers and it worked well, the service was really good and then I got pressured into moving to EE which led me to Virgin Media, suffice to say I didn’t like it but the customer service is still the best.
Just get rid of EE, it’s not Orange so stop trying! People don’t even know what EE even stands for. BT should have done this 10 years ago
If you thought that was bad, wait till you see the new font coming out…
Don’t think there’s too much here to give the MVNOs sleepless nights. If you are required to have BT Broadband you will already have access to BT/EE public WiFi so it can hardly be advertised as a feature. It all seems rather half-hearted.
These deals seem pretty poor really, Yes they are 30 day rolling sims but they aren’t that good when you compare them to the current EE mobile deals available to BT broadband customers.
Guess the only positive is unlike the EE plans the BT ones may not be speed capped and don’t come with a 12/24 month contract period, although a provider like BT bringing back a mobile service in 2026 and not having e-sim at launch seems a bit odd
It comes to something when you’re learning more about what you’re supposed to be selling from a website such as this, and not the company’s own (nonexistent) announcements or briefings.
The training is ongoing, this info shouldn’t even be on here yet so either someone has chosen to release it or someone has broken their NDA
This info was released to all internal staff under embargo last week.
To be fair SKY mobile only offered free inclusive calls to sky TV customers at launch. It was later rolled out to all.
However £9 for 10gb is not going to get me to leave Lebara. I have that for £5.90 and son has 50gb for £8
I have 50gb with tesco mobile. So not worth me swapping
I guess it is aimed at people who like everything on one bill and don’t shop around. You wouldn’t be on BT Broadband if you shopped around in most cases.
Depends if you solely look at price above all else. My BT/EE lines have been literally flawless from a technical perspective, so I haven’t had much dealings with their customer service. BT gives me full speed 24/7, IPv6, no peering issues, etc. No CGNAT either, as compared to many newer ISPs and altnets.
In “competitive areas” the pricing isn’t even all that out of whack either.
BT’s pricing has gotten worse in my area. A package I got for £28 from Sky is now £35 on BT. And Sky gives me symmetrical speeds.
If this is BT’s attempt to revive the brand, I don’t think it’s going very well.
BT Ivor, You connection would be flawless wouldn’t it as you have a vested interest in BT 🙂
You talk about CGNAT with Altnets, that can usually be got around with a small charge for static IP address. Does your BT broadband have a nice symmetric speed as I noticed you did not shout about that (It doesn’t is the actual answer). Netomnia did 1gbps for £26.99 for a while recently and Trooli are doing 2gbps symmetric for £35 – me thinks your BT pricing is nowhere near that for a similar speed, and definitely not symmetric speeds too!
As been said this is for BT customers, so for a lot of people will have no effect. Even if I was a BT customer, I would stick with Smarty, well as long as they keep as is. £9 per month for 10GB of data on BT, which is not too bad I suppose, I pay a fiver for 4GB, which is fine for what I use. There is nothing about text and voice, I realise that people are more into data these days, but some still need voice and text. Smarty is unlimited on both.
The main thing is, reliability, EE used to be pretty poor in some places around here.
You pay premium you get premium. Personally I’d rather deal with BT/EE with the UK based call centres and to be honest I’ve had much issues since 2023.
Looks like a quid a month cheaper than the existing EE service for BT Broadband customers that I moved to from Smarty. So will likely be off to them once it launches.
Get an EE based MVNO; prepaid with Mozillion or 30 day contract with 1pmobile where you can buy data bolt-ons if you need over your base package in any month.
Save loads of money for uncapped 5G speeds (not tariff limited to 10mbps or 100mbps – it’s the max the cell can supply), WIFI Calling, HD Voice and access to all the band frequencies, and EU roaming. The only exception is 5G-SA which is specific to EE premium tariffs. You may not get a fancy MVNO app either, which most wouldn’t use day to day anyway.