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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Zoe Wood

How can BT be so insensitive to the needs of my 100-year-old mother?

A landline is vital but BT insists on a new contract if broadband is cancelled.
A landline is vital but BT insists on a new contract if broadband is cancelled. Photograph: Shaun Daley/Alamy

My 100-year-old mother has been a BT customer for more than 70 years. After a bad fall in March she was hospitalised for eight weeks. She has not been able to return home because of increased frailty and went into a care home in early May.

She is paying £128 a month for phone and broadband (which she hardly ever uses). I want to cancel the broadband but keep her landline. She is still hopeful of returning home and if she does will need to reinstate her emergency alarm service, which requires a landline.

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