Call Plan Charges....The Call Plan Costed More Tha...

I recently called BT regarding getting a cheaper Broadband and phone tarrif. The net result was that I got a reduction, but that this reduction ( of around £7 a month ) meant that I no longer had the Evenings and Weekends call plan.
Now this was the first I had any idea that I was actually PAYING to have a call plan. Maybe I'm silly and should have looked this up....but then again, nothing in my phone bills EVER mentioned any specific charge for a call plan, though they do mention a call plan. I have BT's latest tarrifs document and trying to understand the plans in it is like quantum mechanics....especially when it says 'includes line rental' yet the monthly line rental of £16 is more than the call plan !
So I am utterly confused. All the more so as having checked my bills for the last few years I see my average QUARTERLY phone use has been around £3.50....yes...barely anything at all. Yet it would appear I have been paying more than that...what exact figure I cannot work out....one source implies it was £22 a quarter and another implies £12.....for the privilege of making hardly any calls at all under this 'call plan'. In other words....paying at least £12 a quarter to make £3.50 worth of calls.
Am I just confused, silly for not having woken up to this earlier, or ( given that I have been with BT on this line for 19 years with similar usage ) should I never have been sold this 'call plan' in the first place ?

The basic line rental includes free weekend calls. You have been paying extra for free weekday evening calls, so it depends on how many calls you make after 7pm in the evening.
Some of the broadband packages include free evening calls, so that must have been part of your original package.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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