Bigger Call Allowances and Discounts

British Telecommunications PLC
6 March 2000




              BT TO GIVE BIGGER CALL ALLOWANCES
                        AND DISCOUNTS
                              
BT is to increase its inclusive call allowance for

residential customers by a third from next month.  On 

April 1 the inclusive call time given to residential customers*

will go up from £1.80 to £2.40 a quarter.  Additionally,

customers on the BT Together package - there are now more

than four million - will each see their inclusive call time

increase from £5.40 to £6.00 per quarter.

     A BT spokesman said: 'When we first introduced the

inclusive call time in October last year, it was an instant

success with customers, automatically giving them call time

equivalent to three hours of local weekend calls a quarter.

We are now increasing that by the equivalent of another full

hour.'

     Other price changes to come in on April 1 are small

adjustments to BT's Light User Scheme - under which more

than 90 per cent of users will benefit - and an increase in

discount from 15 per cent to 16 per cent for BT's basic

business discount scheme, Business Advantage.


* Excludes customers on the Light User Scheme