BT is to start offering competitive broadband and phone bundles after Ofcom relaxed the competition rules allowing them to do so.

Previously BT were not able to compete with rivals in the bundles market but Ofcom relaxed the rules last September meaning that BT could start going head-to-head with rivals with their own bundled deals.

BT are having a “Spring Sale” where prices for their bundle of Option 1 Broadband and Anytime calls (BT Talk and Surf) will cost just £15.99 per month on an 18 month contract, with the first 3 months being half price at just £7.99. The broadband will offer “up to” 20Mb broadband speeds and 10GB usage per month.

Another option is the BT Total Broadband Option 3 which offers unlimited broadband usage (fair use policy applies) with the Anytime calls (BT Talk and Surf Unlimited) which will cost £27.99 per month with the first 3 months costing £19.99 on an 18 month contract.

These broadband and phone deals do also still require a monthly line rental charge of £11.54 per month.

BT will also be offering Triple Play bundles which offer Broadband, Telephone and TV. The entry bundle (BT Talk, Surf & Watch) will offer the Anytime calls, the BT Option 1 Broadband and BT Vision for £21.99 per month on an 18 month contract with the first 3 months being offered at a discounted £9.99 per month.

These BT “Spring Sale” deals are expected to run until March 23rd.

John Petter, the managing director of BT’s Consumer Division said:

“We wanted to give our customers a great seasonal sale and to promote our all-in calls package.

“Over the last 12 months, 3.6 million of our customers have moved to calls packages, where you don’t pay for every call.

“Offering a bundle of broadband and Anytime calls for this knockdown price will launch us into the bundles market as an unrestricted competitor for the first time. There will be many more bundled offers to come and customers can only benefit.”

Although these deals are not the most competitive broadband and phone bundled deals available we anticipate that BT will continue to better their deals now that they are able to do so. We could find that the fibre network they are starting to roll out will offer some enticing deals for customers to get them using the “BT Infinity” fibre broadband network and perhaps this is what they are waiting for.