I placed an order with BT on 7th August 2024 for Fibre 900 and I FINALLY now have an install date of 20th Jan 2025.
Since placing that order I am being charged a monthly fee of £44.48 which I have been told is a Out of Contract price !!
It's not my fault that BT have not got the resources to install Fibre 900 at my home for over 5 months.
Surely this is not fair, especially since I have had a BT account for all of my adult life (I'm now 60).
BT livechat were no help at all !!
Your new package does not start until your install date and it is activated. If you had not been given an install date then your old package would just continue until the new package started.
You must have chosen not to renew your "old" package despite not having an install date for your new package and as such you lose any discounts that you may have had as you are "out of contract".
You could have renewed your current contract and when you were given an install date it would have been "upgraded" to the new package and contract for the Full Fibre 900.
Makes sense what you have said and yes I should have done that IF the BT advisor ran through ALL the options available to me at the time !!
When dealing with BT and MOST companies nowadays, things have to be kept as SIMPLE as possible, because things just don't seem to get done !!
Anyway, my Fibre 900 better live up to their advertised usage, or I'll be taking the £20 and early exit option and leave BT.
@152bobby wrote:
Makes sense what you have said and yes I should have done that IF the BT advisor ran through ALL the options available to me at the time !!
When dealing with BT and MOST companies nowadays, things have to be kept as SIMPLE as possible, because things just don't seem to get done !!
Anyway, my Fibre 900 better live up to their advertised usage, or I'll be taking the £20 and early exit option and leave BT.
I fail to see that the advisor was at fault. At the time of ordering the advisor would have no more of an idea than you did when your new package would be starting if at that time there was no date available for the install and he/she may not have known when your old package was due to end.
Did you ask the advisor what your options would be in the event of your present contract running out prior to the new one commencing?
You would have been notified in advance that your "old" package was coming to an end and if memory serves me correctly you would have been told that your "fixed term discount" would end at that time.
When you received the notification did you consider contacting BT to ask what your options would be in the event of your present contract running out prior to the new one commencing or did you accept that you would be out of contract and have to pay the higher price because of the loss of the discount?