{"id":2369,"date":"2021-08-03T06:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/bt-is-trying-to-charge-me-348-to-leave-its-broadband-service\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T06:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:40:44","slug":"bt-is-trying-to-charge-me-348-to-leave-its-broadband-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/bt-is-trying-to-charge-me-348-to-leave-its-broadband-service\/","title":{"rendered":"BT is trying to charge me \u00a3348 to leave its broadband service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company had told me I could leave penalty-free, but it is threatening me with debt collectors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you please help me as BT is chasing me for \u00a3348 in early termination fees despite previously telling me that it would forgo these charges. The broadband <\/strong><strong>service provided to my house had always been poor<\/strong><strong> but after I had <\/strong><strong>open-heart surgery four years ago, I needed a service that worked. After repeated attempts by BT to improve matters, I eventually switched to Sky, which improved matters somewhat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the time, BT said I could leave penalty-free, and staff told me to ignore any bills that were sent. However, the company\u2019s most recent letter said it will pass the matter to debt collectors if the bill is not paid with seven days.<br \/>AB, <\/strong><em><strong>Penzance<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/aug\/03\/bt-leave-broadband-penalty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e38380bc5176744c634582763c9243f5c444d28a\/0_73_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1c5b6d5c876ea03c1beb26f4f337a643\" title=\"BT is trying to charge me \u00a3348 to leave its broadband service\" \/>The company had told me I could leave penalty-free, but it is threatening me with debt collectors<br \/>\nCan you please help me as BT is chasing me for \u00a3348 in early termination fees despite previously telling me that it would forgo these charges. The broadband service provided to my house had always been poor but after I had open-heart surgery four years ago, I needed a service that worked. After repeated attempts by BT to improve matters, I eventually switched to Sky, which improved matters somewhat.<br \/>\nAt the time, BT said I could leave penalty-free, and staff told me to ignore any bills that were sent. However, the company\u2019s most recent letter said it will pass the matter to debt collectors if the bill is not paid with seven days.AB, Penzance Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company had told me I could leave penalty-free, but it is threatening me with debt collectors Can you please help me as BT is chasing me for \u00a3348 in early termination fees despite previously telling me that it would forgo these charges. The broadband service provided to my house had always been poor but &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/bt-is-trying-to-charge-me-348-to-leave-its-broadband-service\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BT is trying to charge me \u00a3348 to leave its broadband service<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}