Former UK telecoms monopoly BT Group will this week announce reduced tariffs for most of its customers following the lifting of price controls by industry regulator Ofcom, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The paper said BT will unveil a series of cheaper call packages and may also reduce line rental charges. The company is also expected to start heavily promoting its Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, which enables customers to speak to each other over the internet at a fraction of the cost of a regular call.
The report follows Ofcom's decision last week to scrap price controls on BT's landline calls and line rental that were first imposed in the run-up to the company's privatisation in 1984. The price controls disappear at the end of this month.
