Evening and Weekends no more?

Question

Just having a look around the BT site for some strange reason and noticed on the phone pakages that people now have a choice between free Weekend calls for their line rental cost or Bt anytime, but no more Evening and weekends. It seems like Bt have got rid of Evening and weekends, not a good idea to be honest, but it now makes sense why Bt have changed the times people can call for free in the evenings, they are trying to force us to either take anytime, which cost more or go down to Weekends only.
Well doen Bt, you have lost another customer, no, I think you may have lost another 2
Adrian

Answer 1

Eamdad wrote:
No, it changed not to trick people.
"We've looked into it and 6pm to 7pm is a busy time for calling, but it's the time when people make short, organisational calls," he said. "It's between 8pm and 9pm when they sit down to have a chat."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jan/29/bt-free-evening-calls-change
If i had some controll of BT i would have done the same thing.
The fact that this time change was tagged in the small print at the bottom of the email proves that it is done to trick people.
So what if people make lots of small calls between 6 and 7.
Those small calls have a minimum call charge. There is also the fact that if the person you are calling doesn't answer or is engaged you still get charged the minumum cost because of that bt answer service.
After a few tries you can still easily clock up at least a £1. And as most people don't read small print they wont find out until they have a massive bill.
BT are hoping that this massive bill persuades them to join the anytime plan.