Excess Broadband Usage - complaints experience

I have been a BT customer for some while, registered for paperless bills, set up on BT.com with an email address of my choice prim login and primary communication and making payments by Direct Debit. BT cold called me (I am guessing around 12 to 18 months ago) same renew my package.
in December I noticed a £100 excess broadband usage added to my bill. This prompted me to look back over previous months and, sure enough, around £50 per month had been added historically. There is a limit to how far back I can look online and I called BT to complain. I could write a book on the issues and barriers around BT's complaints process but that would distract from my primary concern.
Firstly, I was sold a package I was told was limitless. This was renewed in the cold call mentioned above. It transpires I was placed on a 10gB limit. Conveniently BT have deleted recordings.
That would be manageable as BT has a fail safe (plastered across its web pages) in that they email you when approaching or exceeding limits. Wrong! They didn't send one email to the email address with which I was registered tor my account to warn me. 5 seconds after the 2nd stage of the complaints process is complete (not to my satisfaction) BT sent me may first warning. 
The 3rd stage complaint handler acknowledged how a customer could be confused by the above and offered to meet me half way on the overcharge excess costs over that period.
At no point has BT provided the summary history I had clearly requested on several occasions. This must be in the region of £790 as I was offered £395; insulting at best!
How many other customers are blissfully unaware they are exceeding their limits? What controls do BT have in place to identify and alert these customers, or is this a systematic control failure or known source of easy income?
i have been very clear in all calls of my position. I feel ripped off and subjected to poor complaints handling. BT has now acknowledged how I could be misinformed and in this position, yet still think it reasonable not to return a full refund. In a highly regulated industry I hope the regulator, ADR, press, web positings and consumer TV programme routes open to me will highlight and resolve my problem, and potentially who knows how many other customers'.

Suckered wrote:
That would be manageable as BT has a fail safe (plastered across its web pages) in that they email you when approaching or exceeding limits. Wrong! They didn't send one email to the email address with which I was registered tor my account to warn me. 5 seconds after the 2nd stage of the complaints process is complete (not to my satisfaction) BT sent me my first warning. 
First email alert received to my registered email account 5th Jan 2013.
If you work for BT but aren't from the customer care team (to which the previous poster kindly suggested I write) please don't get involved unless you can resolve my complaint. This was posted for help and to hopefully alert BT and its customers of a potential problem, not to be "topped".
Have you ever logged into MyBT and checked your usage? If you have you would see when and where to they send the emails, regardless of the registered email address.
Working for BT is not the issue here. Clearly you did not take personal responsibility and refuse to, that is not my fault. If BT are offering you some money back I would take it, otherwise it could cost you more money in the long run.
Taking the attitude of your posts, it sounds like you had a broadband package from BT and now you have found out that you having been paying over the odds for and now you think you are entitled for your money back, well there is a saying "buyer beware".

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    Deke wrote:
    I have also experienced the excessive BT broadband usage. I opted for option 1 because I have no interest in downloading Video's/music, apart from reading both BBC and Sky news the only other use is my wife using the online facebook game.
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    Hi. Welcome to the forums.
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    What Facebook game is being used may I ask? Some of these applications can use many 100s of MB per day, so this alone could account for a lot of the usage.
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    You can't compare with a fax machine, because typically these used normal phone lines which are charged on a timed usage - so the longer the call, the dearer the cost.  In your example it could actually be dearer to use a quality fax machine, because it may take longer to send a higher quality copy.
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  • Broadband usage limits

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    Hi,
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    Johnoo wrote:
    OK, thanks, got in using "Admin", & have now changed Password !
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  • Broadband usage suddenly rocketed - can anyone hel...

    Hi All
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  • Broadband usage high and jumping in usage

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    I've been with BT for 6 years at my current address and I had this exact problem back in 2014. It is now happening again. - It turned out my on Demand service was being counted to my broadband usage!!
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  • Broadband usage IMPOSSIBLE!

    Hi all, i'm a new customer to BT having signed up to an Infinity 1 & TV package from 17.06.14.
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    Within 7 days of connection, I had my first email warning that braodband useage had already reached 28GB and was at risk of exceeding my 40GB / month usage cap.
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    Hi,
    I am new to BT as well (from 08/05/2014) and am experiencing the same problem on an Inifinity 1 package with 40GB monthly allowance.  Apparently between 1st and 8th July 2014 (according to the BT Broadband Usage Monitor webpage) I have managed to use 39.87GB of my 40GB allowance.
    Note: in my last seven years of broadband usage (with O2) I have never used more than between e.g. 10 to 14GB per month.  I do not have any gaming devices, no sky TV etc and have not (since June) streamed any movies, watched iPlayer or TV on demand, downloaded music on iTunes etc.  Nothing has changed in my usage which would account for this.
    Since Sunday 6th July, I have spent nearly 3 hours on the phone with 'technical' support to try and resolve the problem.  They have confirmed that I do not have a crossed line (via swtiching the hub off).  After many hours of wrangling between 'techincal' and 'accounts', 'technical' have now opened a case and are due to report back on the 14th July.  They are also sending me a new home hub.  I suspect they will not find a problem and the new hub will make no difference.
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    ...somehow without any access to the home hub I managed to use c. 7GB of data in a day.  I queried this figure with BT this morning.  They told me that the 39.87GB figure on the webpage was incorrect and that the correct figure was 32GB.  I have just checked the usage monitor webpage and it is still showing 39.87GB (?!).  [Note this figure is all download with no upload whatsoever.]
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    Happy to discuss further as it would appear we have exactly the same issue....

  • Broadband Usage Problem - Need Proper Help From BT

    Hello,
    A day ago I received a message from BT saying that I was approaching the usage limit for my BT broadband.  I am on Option 2 and normally use around 20GB in a month.  I checked my usage on My BT and found it was 38.64GB on 14/2.  I checked again this morning and found it was now 42.73GB for the 15/2.
    I've tried calling BT, but have only got through to the BT help in India.  The first person I spoke to said it was because I was being charged for my BTVision usage and wouldn't accept that it was independent of my broadband.  I tried again, and the second person said the same, but upon my insistence checked with a colleague - and came back apologising, saying that the BTVision usage was separate and so I would not be charged at the end of the month.
    I am scared to use my BT broadband and BTVision for fearing of incurring more charges.  I have not done anything that warrants high usage: I don't watch films or play games on-line.  I read news, check e-mails, do banking, view video clips - the usual everyday stuff.
    Please can somebody from BT help me?  I am tired of trying to explain the situation and getting the same scripted answers.  The stock response from the BT staff seems to be for me to upgrade to an unlimited package, but I want to know why this is happening (is it a mistake on BT's part?  I did not use 4GB yesterday), how I can go back to my normal broadband usage, and whether I will be charged for this excessive usage.  In short: something is wrong, I have little control over the situation despite trying repeatedly to talk to someone from BT, and I would like some help.
    Thank you
    Paul
    Solved!
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    PaulP1966 wrote:
    I've received a very helpful message from a Forum Moderator explaining my problem.  The usage monitor also included my BT Vision usage, so I have not exceeded the limit with my broadband.  Hopefully this problem will be sorted out in the next few weeks.
    It seems a great shame BT's staff in India aren't aware of this problem - it would save a lot of time, telephone calls and worry.
    This is extremely interesting. I've been having this problem since last summer and still am. I have a similar type of usage to you with browsing, emails etc. My work IT department are gobsmacked how my usage can be so high.
    I've been through exactly the same where I've stopped using my BB service for fear of being charged and i have always suspected BT Vision usage was being included. During a 1 hour phone call with India and several times since I have been told it is "IMPOSSIBLE" for BT Vision usage to be included. This admission appears to prove otherwise !!

  • Broadband usage - no emails?

    Hello all! 1st post here after much trawling and reading of threads so hopefully I've done the right thing by searching the forum first for an answer prior to posting...if my searching was substandard then I apologise in advance...
    I've searched the forum a lot over the past few days/weeks and I see that I am one of many that has experienced unrealistically high usage according to BT'S usage monitor.  Notwithstanding the fact that I think it is inaccurate based on my experience with my previous ISP when I had to try really hard to get up to 10GB usage (to get my money's worth ) and I'm now using up way more than this monthly, I have the following questions which I would be grateful for any enlightenment:
    My broadband usage monitor has disappeared and I can't find any thread on here or any explanation on the BT site explaining why this has happened (the other thing I see in MyBT is that it's unavailable and that they hope to restore it soon).  I know it was acknowledged to be wrong due to inclusion of YouView figures but is this the reason for the disappearance? Any thoughts on this?
    After a livechat conversation this morning I called Consumer Billing - Broadband on 0800 800 150 to try to get some usage figures. Apparently I am at 18.23GB so far this month, following 24.53GB last month.  The PC is virus/trojan free so I just don't fathom it...HOWEVER my issue is that I've never received an email from BT flagging up the heavy usage.  I've checked my BT Internet (Yahoo) email address as well as my email address as supplied to BT but nothing - again, is there any logical reason for this?
    We have TV (YouView) from BT and often use the catch up TV service through the set top box but I'm assured by BT that this doesn't count towards usage.  This is how I was sold the service and what I read on the BT site - I am correct here aren't I? (by the way with my previous ISP I often accessed iplayer, sky catch up and never got close to the usage figures given by BT).  Does anyone know whether the above figures would include YouView usage?  I suspect the answer is no (but can only explain it if the answer is yes) but the person in the overseas call centre just pointed me in the direction of the thinkbroadband usage monitor...
    Like others, I am a bit lost as to why the usage is so high but feel I have little option other than to upgrade to an unlimited package at higher cost.  Not ideal and I do feel a little unhappy given I (and others) don't believe or understand the usage numbers.
    Thanks,
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