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Section 55:Personal (Residential) Customer Options

Part 5:BT Together - Local Calls Option


Subpart 1:BT Together - Local Calls Option

Pricing Information

For all Residential Special Offers see Special Notices at Notices 2007 and Notices 2008for full details.

VAT figures are rounded up..

PSTN Lines

This product is not available for new supply from 1 June 2003.

BT Together - Local Calls Option is available for an inclusive fee of £41.53 exc. VAT per quarter (£47.76 inc. VAT). The fee includes the following:

  • -Line Rental (for one line)
  • -The call prices specified in Tables 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 which include a zero pence per minute charge for the first hour of each Local Geographic call at evenings and weekends except those to Internet Service Provider numbers (conditions apply).
  • -Connection of new and additional lines at £106.52 exc. VAT (£122.50inc. VAT)
  • -Local Calls Option pence per minute rates apply on all lines on the account
  • -Customers will pay £32.60 exc. VAT (£37.50 inc. VAT) fee for additional lines on the same account.

A payment processing fee is payable on each account for Customers who do not settle their accounts by Monthly Payment Plan or Direct Debit - See Section 15Part 12Sub Part 3. The payment processing fee is levied by BT Payment Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecommunications plc.

If a customer agrees to replace a paper bill with an on-line bill, they will receive a discount of £1.25inc VAT ( £1.09exc VAT) on their account for every month in which they spend at least £11.25inc VAT (£9.78 exc VAT) on rental charges, provided the bill is paid by direct debit or monthly payment plan. Customers will receive an email advising that their bill is available to view on-line.

The paper-free discount is available per account and to customers on Calling Plans, BT Together Local, BT Working Together and BT Working Together Talk. It is not currently available on BT Mobile or BT Fusion accounts. The discount is only applied on accounts where the customer has a total rental charges greater than or equal to £11.25inc VAT (£9.78 exc VAT) per month, before any other discounts are applied e.g. special offers. One-off charges such as usage charges, brought forward amounts, payment processing fees and any other non rental charges do not count as rental charges. The discount is applied for rental charges in advance.

If the customer opts for both on-line billing and a paper copy they will not qualify for the discount. Additionally, if the customer changes the method by which they receive bills more than twice during any 12-month period, they will not be eligible for the discount. If this happens, the customer will need to continue with paper-free billing for a continuous period of 6 months before they receive the discount again.

Calls to Local Number Translation Service (NTS) (0X45) numbers will be charged at the BT Together - Local Calls Option Local NTS rates shown in Tables 2 (a) and 2 (b), .ie not all these calls are eligible for the zero pence per minute charge.

For charges for calls at g21 rates, see Option 1 - Table 1a - Geographic Inland Direct Dialled PPM Prices in Section 55 Part 1

Calls of any type for which there is no Calling Plan pence per minute rate specified will be charged at the specified rate (including Chargecard calls; Directory Enquiries - all numbers beginning with 118; 195 service and Operator Controlled Calls). Calls to the Channel Islands will be charged rates shown in table 1b below.

Charges for calls to 05XX numbers and number ranges are shown in Section 2. Part 11 of the BT Price List.

Charges for calls to 08XX numbers and number ranges are shown in Section 2. Part 13 of the BT Price List.

Charges for calls to 09XX numbers and number ranges are shown in Section 2. Part 14 of the BT Price List.

Charges for calls to all 118 numbers and number ranges are shown in Section 2. Part 15 of the BT Price List.

Charges for calls to 123 numbers and number ranges are shown in Section 2. Part 16 of the BT Price List.

Charges for fixed fee calls to and number ranges are shown in Section 2. Part 12 and Section 2. Part 14 of the BT Price List.

Charges for calls based on a fixed fee and duration and numbers and number ranges are shown in Section 2. Part 12 and Section 2. Part 14 of the BT Price List.

See General Notes sub-part 4, for details of the applicable Call Set-up Fee.

Table 1a - Geographic Inland Direct Dialled PPM Prices (except calls terminating on Internet Service Providers)



Price in pence per minute

daytime

Mon-Fri

6am - 6pm

evenings & night-time

Mon-Fri

before 6am & after 6pm

weekend

All Day Sat & Sun

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

Local calls - up to 1 hour

3.913

4.50

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

Local calls - thereafter

3.913

4.50

3.913

4.50

3.913

4.50

National

3.913

4.50

1.70

1.96

1.26

1.45

Calls from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland are charged at the rates shown in Table 1a above. Calls from Northern Ireland to mobile telephones registered in the Republic of Ireland will be charged at the same rate as calls from the rest of the United Kingdom to mobile telephones registered in the Republic of Ireland.

Exceptionally long Local calls, passing through multiple Evening or Weekend periods (via one or more Daytime periods), will not be charged for the first hour of each Evening or Weekend period. Pence per minute rates will apply at all other times.

Table 1b - Prices of calls to the Channel Islands and calls to Internet Service Providers using geographic or 0870 (i.e. National) numbers



Price in pence per minute

daytime

Mon-Fri

6am - 6pm

evenings & night-time

Mon-Fri

before 6am & after 6pm

weekend

All Day Sat & Sun

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

Local

3.913

4.50

1.26

1.45

0.85

0.98

National

3.913

4.50

1.70

1.96

1.26

1.45

Calls to identified Internet Service Providers using geographic numbers will be charged at the rates shown in Table 1b above. A list of these numbers is available on bt.com

Table 2 (a) - Inland NTS, (0845 & 0870) Direct Dialled PPM Prices

Calls to identified Internet Service Providers and indirect access services using Inland NTS, (0845 & 0870) numbers will be charged at the rates shown in Table 2 (b).



Price in pence per minute

daytime

Mon-Fri

6am - 6pm

evenings & night-time

Mon-Fri

before 6am & after 6pm

weekend

Sat & Sun

6am - 6pm

weekend

Sat & Sun

before 6am & after 6pm

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

pence

Local NTS calls - up to 1 hour

1.702

1.96

0.00**

0.00**

0.00**

0.00**

0.00**

0.00**

Local NTS calls - thereafter

1.702

1.96

0.425

0.49

1.702

1.96

0.425

0.49

** - Redial before 60 minutes to avoid being charged. Fair Usage Policy: Customers who exceed 1000 minutes or 150 calls in a month will be charged the standard BT rates (i.e those in Table 2 (b) below).

Table 2 (b) - Inland NTS, (0845 & 0870) Direct Dialled PPM Prices - Calls to identified Internet Service Providers and indirect access numbers.



Price in pence per minute

daytime

Mon-Sun

6am - 6pm

evenings & night-time

Mon-Sun

before 6am & after 6pm

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

pence

pence

pence

pence

Local NTS calls

1.702

1.96

0.425

0.49

BT Text Prices



Price in Pence per Text*

24 hr

Exc VAT

Inc VAT

pence

pence

Text to a fixed line in the UK

8.51

9.79

Text to a mobile telephone in the UK

8.51

9.79

UK texts - to a premium rate service**

N/A

N/A

* each text message is limited to 160 characters. Where a request is made to send a text which exceeds 160 characters the message will be delivered as multiple messages each up to 160 characters length. Each text will be charged at the rate appropriate to the destination telephone.

** Texts to premium rate services are not currently available.

Please see Section 2. Part 1 Sub-Part `BT TEXT' for further information relating to the BT Text service.

Table 3 - International Direct Dialled (IDD) PPM Prices

See Table 3 of Unlimited Weekend Plan, within Part 1 of this Section.

Table 4 - International Direct Dialled (IDD) PPM Prices to Mobile Telephones and other Special and Higher Rate Services

See Table 4 of Unlimited Weekend Plan, within Part 1 of this Section.

Table 5 - Personal Numbering Services Prices

See Table 5 of Unlimited Weekend Plan, within Part 1 of this Section.

Table 6 - Fixed-Mobile Direct Dialled PPM Prices

See Table 6 of Unlimited Weekend Plan, within Part 1 of this Section.

Table 7 - Fixed-WiFi Direct Dialled PPM Prices

See Table 7 of Unlimited Weekend Plan, within Part 1 of this Section.

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