From July, a monthly subscription to the no-frills 512Kbps BT Broadband package will now cost £24.99 per month, down from £27 per month. A BT Yahoo Broadband (which includes various features including email and security products) 512Kbps connection will now cost £26.99 per month (from £29.99) while the BT Yahoo Broadband 1Mbps service will drop from £40 to £29.99.
BT is also bringing in new limits on how much its customers can use their broadband connections for. Customers using a 512Kbps connection will now only be permitted to download 15 gigabytes of data a month. Those using the 1Mbps service will be limited to 30GB per month.
Previously, BT operated 'advisory limits' of one gigabyte of data per day, so Wednesday's announcement effectively halves how much data its 512Kbps users are allowed to download each month.
The telco says that bringing in these restrictions gives it the chance to cut prices. It insists that most users will be unaffected, saying that the 15GB allowance will let users surf for 15 hours per day, send and receive 3,000 emails per week and still be able to access digital material like video clips and radio stations.
"There's only a very small number of very heavy users it will affect. If these guys don't want to use our service, that's their option," said a BT spokesperson.
Although these bandwidth caps are being added to BT's terms and conditions and will come into force 28 days later, they won't actually be enforced until next year. By that stage, BT hopes to have brought in its flexible bandwidth service which will give it the ability to sell additional bandwidth to users with heavy requirements.
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Oh yeah!
That will be the day BT.
It will only benefit new subscribers any way, those of us already locked into their one year contract will not see any benefit.
By the did you know all their members of staff are called "Tracey"
BT had a monoply for such a long time, they do not seem to have noticed that people now have options.
BT any time means when BT says its time.
When BT says it isn't time, the fact that you have paid for any time does not seem to enter into the equation.
Long live Tiscali.
Well i am one of those Guys they go on about,But what about the times you work long hours and your Computer is not on,i do not do that every Month,But There are Times When That Happens what about Holidays and i Work Shifts,When you are on Lates the Computer is not Downloading for England,If it Was not for Downloading,Bt Would not Have a Market,I Plan to Hit Back at This,I Have 2 Lines i Pay For,So one of Those Will Go and Then i Will Change my Broadband Provider,Yes Bt Will Make Money on Lines,But Nowt Else Here,And i May Change my Mobile To Orange instead of O2,Thats cost BT Some money Here that,