BT Doing Its Utmost To Drive Away Custom

Martin Beenham <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Just out of interest, why would you pay line rental to BT when you have
> Primus as carrier? Primus line rental is much cheaper (6.49 p.m.).

Does Primus allow CPS (eg to 18185)?

Anyway, Primus uses (some) VOIP - messes up (some) fax calls. (Web to fax not
an option)

Theo

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:12:02 +0000, Theo Markettos wrote:

> Martin Beenham <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Just out of interest, why would you pay line rental to BT when you have
>> Primus as carrier? Primus line rental is much cheaper (6.49 p.m.).
>
> Does Primus allow CPS (eg to 18185)?
>
> Anyway, Primus uses (some) VOIP - messes up (some) fax calls. (Web to
> fax not an option)
>
> Theo

I am using:
Primus for line rental.
18185 for calls,
Plusnet for broadband (on Market 1 exchange).
No problems so far ...

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martin-dot-beenham-at-hotmail-dot-co-dot-uk

In article <jfprsn$v86$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)d says...
>
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:27:50 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
> > Specifically talking about telecoms bills, we use Primus as our Carrier
> > Pre-Select carrier and also 18185.co.uk for calls (all on monthly DD),
> > and we pay line rental to BT on a monthly basis using 'whole month' DD.
> [SNIP]
>
> Just out of interest, why would you pay line rental to BT when you have
> Primus as carrier? Primus line rental is much cheaper (6.49 p.m.).

Well for a start, Primus may allow the use of 18185 (and similar
services) at the moment but could change their minds at any time and you
would lose that facility, but BT have to allow it by law.

Secondly, as an ex-BT engineer I've got all the 'extras' such as Call
Waiting, Call Diversion etc., etc., free of charge. The company doesn't
offer that to employees/pensioners anymore but when they tried to
withdraw it from BT Pensioners, I wrote to the then chairman (Ian
Vallance) in disgust and I've got it in writing from him that we (or
maybe just I, I don't know) can keep it :-)