I Nearly Paid...
Then I noticed...
My phone bill from BT arrived today. Dear me! £136.50
Then I looked and realised that it has line rental in advance from May 5th to August the 4th. But my line is taken over on May 22nd by my ISP provider.
So they will send a final amended bill around that time which have any calls made(VAT)and line rental up to that point.
I'll try to avoid adding any calls between now and then(I will lose two months of the line rental with BT)That saves £29.20. But that still probably means with VAT it won't be much different.
As they also include charge £5.67 for processing the payment.
I hope calls will be few and far between from now on and the bills will be much lower...It's sad but I have few people to phone and the new plan means I should only call after 7pm weeknights or at weekends.
I really only want my mobile so I can call a taxi if I have been shopping and need to come home.
Or make quick local calls on that during the day if required...I'd like another plan for the mobile but it might be silly if again I have no one to call much to say I'll pay £10 a month as over the year that's £120 to find(just in case)and though that may give me unlimited texts and lots of extra airtime(if I'm not using it...)possibly Skype could be the answer...as I could put £10 on that and it will cost me nothing if its computer to computer or 1.4p per minute if I phone a land line.
I'll have to invest in a microphone to work with the pc. But that £10 can just sit there until its used up. But I can tell the person/company I am calling to phone me back on my phone line as I can accept incoming calls.
Or perhaps I could pay £3 approx a month and go on a phone plan with Plusnet that allows me to make calls anytime. I'll look into that perhaps. That still adds £36 annually(and probably VAT too)
Update:I got some headphones with a microphone atteched. They weren't expensive, I can listen to the music and other things on here and switch the speakers off if I wish. Or at some point if there was anyone to talk to(Can't think who)I can talk via the mike online using Skype and other people will think I am using a phone.
My ISP has its own version of using the net for making calls.
My phone bill from BT arrived today. Dear me! £136.50
Then I looked and realised that it has line rental in advance from May 5th to August the 4th. But my line is taken over on May 22nd by my ISP provider.
So they will send a final amended bill around that time which have any calls made(VAT)and line rental up to that point.
I'll try to avoid adding any calls between now and then(I will lose two months of the line rental with BT)That saves £29.20. But that still probably means with VAT it won't be much different.
As they also include charge £5.67 for processing the payment.
I hope calls will be few and far between from now on and the bills will be much lower...It's sad but I have few people to phone and the new plan means I should only call after 7pm weeknights or at weekends.
I really only want my mobile so I can call a taxi if I have been shopping and need to come home.
Or make quick local calls on that during the day if required...I'd like another plan for the mobile but it might be silly if again I have no one to call much to say I'll pay £10 a month as over the year that's £120 to find(just in case)and though that may give me unlimited texts and lots of extra airtime(if I'm not using it...)possibly Skype could be the answer...as I could put £10 on that and it will cost me nothing if its computer to computer or 1.4p per minute if I phone a land line.
I'll have to invest in a microphone to work with the pc. But that £10 can just sit there until its used up. But I can tell the person/company I am calling to phone me back on my phone line as I can accept incoming calls.
Or perhaps I could pay £3 approx a month and go on a phone plan with Plusnet that allows me to make calls anytime. I'll look into that perhaps. That still adds £36 annually(and probably VAT too)
Update:I got some headphones with a microphone atteched. They weren't expensive, I can listen to the music and other things on here and switch the speakers off if I wish. Or at some point if there was anyone to talk to(Can't think who)I can talk via the mike online using Skype and other people will think I am using a phone.
My ISP has its own version of using the net for making calls.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 11:49 am
4 Comments:
Why have a plan at all with your mobile?
A while ago, I shopped around and found that ASDA was very cheap so now I'm with them and pay as I go.
You can top up in almost every newsagent or corner shop.
£10 usually lasts me for two or three months.
6p per text and, I think, 10p per minute for calls. And no standing charge.
At present I can put £5 on the mobile. And if I don't use it, that will just sit there. I could There's nothing fancy about the handset. It is a simple basic model.
Now it only has taxi numbers on it. The personal numbers will not be phoned or that is the plan. The texts seem expensive compared to yours. However, now I have no one to phone :-(
The mobile could be handy for the times on Plusnet where I can not use the land line 8am-7pm.
Then again I wonder if I should pay approx another £3 per month to them and then I could call whenever I ish. But as I said in the post...do I want to spend £36 if I am not going to use the service?
I have just answered the phone and been talked to by a computerised voice telling me how sorry BT is that I am leaving them.
It wasn't even a real person!
And if it's true that Plusnet is a BT owned company, I haven't really moved, just as Madasafish is a sister company of Plusnet, all I have done is move sideways...
Next year if BT can do a better deal perhaps I'll join them again.
Looking at what you say, even your calls may be cheaper than what I pay. I wonder if Tesco's have a similar cheap mobile service like ASDA. I may pop out and see now...
I need to shave but I'll do that later ready for the visit from Co-op tomorrow about Mum's probate...early start 10am!
I'm a bit of a scruff today...
I'm with Vodaphone pay as you go. If I put a £10 topup I get 200 free calls. Mine is used few and far between, and I only top up when I need to....but you have to use those free calls within the month or you lose them.but then I use the £10 I'd spent before the free calls.
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