BT is the UK's largest home phone and broadband provider.  

The telecommunication giant offers three services: home phone (line rental and call plans), standard (ADSL) and fibre-optic broadband, as well as the less popular BT Vision digital television service.

Home Phone from BT

BT offers three basic home phone plans: Unlimited Weekend, Unlimited Evening and Weekend, and Unlimited Anytime - as the names suggest they come with free UK landline calls at various times of day. In addition you can add either an international or a mobile calling plan, or both.

Is BT Broadband good for me?

BT offers two different broadband services. 

The internet service provider delivers standard (ADSL) broadband over the BT copper wire phone network, and BT Infinity which supplies superfast fibre optic broadband, over BT's new fibre optic cable network. 

BT Infinity has limited coverage, but it is growing fast. All BT broadband plans come with the BT Digital Vault online storage system. This lets you back up all of your important files, including precious family photos, so if your computer crashes, you won't lose them.

In addition BT offers customers free wi-fi connections outside the home via BT Openzone. There are Wi-Fi  hot spots all over the country, in places like cafes, which let you go online while on the go.

BT TV?

BT Vision is a major strategic initiative for BT, but it has yet to catch the public's imagination and as a result has not attracted the sort of customer volumes that Sky and Virgin Media currently enjoy. 

It provides TV programming delivered via a Freeview aerial and via the BT broadband connection.  As such it offers the full range of Freeview channels plus thousands of on demand shows and movies, available from £1 per show.

BT's Vision+ box is a personal video recorder that lets you record up to 80 hours of programmes. You can also use it to pause and rewind live TV or record two shows at once without the need for tapes or DVDs. The V-box comes standard with all BT Vision packages.