BT's 'Free' Answer 1571 Service Reviews

Warning-BT's "free "Answer 1571 service is only free if you are using BT to make your calls . I used to get my line rental only from BT, but that afforded me the option, which I took up, to have the free 1571 service. It is convenient to have this service and I used it from it's introduction until earlier this year. ...  Read the complete review

1571 service = rubbish. 10 call limit is feeble Can't access the messages remotely Calls aren't forwardable as MP3 recordings to an email address Traditional ansaphone 100 times better. Cheeky when ask for you if you want to use BT for callback at a hugely premium rate. I wish I could ...  Read the complete review

A problem with the 1571 Text Alerts system that BT's website fails to point out at this date (7/6/07) is that if you have retained your mobile phone number and transfered it from another provider to either Virgin or T-mobile, the text alert sytem will not work. In other words, you may have messages on your landline, but you will not be ...  Read the complete review

i dread dialing someone and getting bt 1571. i get charged even though the recipient hasn't answered. if i leave a message, will they know i have? - as they have to finish their call and then pick up the phone again to check the dial tone, which will tell them they have a message. it's a very clever way of bt making money out of ...  Read the complete review

You do not get anything in life for free, that as a saying is fairly accurate. But you can get things free provided you can understand why the company is offering it in the first place. Remember companies want to make money, be it the company giving free virus protection or a company paying you to click on adverts. In this respect BT are no ...  Read the complete review

BT Answer 1571 is a free alternative to buying an answer machine for your home. Firstly, I must add, you have to have a BT line, so NTL users and alike - sorry this is not for you!! Basically the service is done entirely through your phone line and so you don't need to find a space for an answer machine near your phone. To actually ...  Read the complete review

Finally, a convincing way to stop being nagged to get off the internet because somebody MIGHT be ringing. BT have come up with a very good service for there customers. In the services early stage it was not so reliable, and many customers were unsure whether it would be a success or failure! However, a year on, and the 1571 service is ...  Read the complete review

Whatever did I do before this amazing piece of new technology arrived into my household? Well, we had an answering machine, that’s what. However, a few months ago, the machine decided to give up the ghost, through a combination of overwork, and over-loaded phone sockets. On its way out, it left us with a series of garbled incomprehensible ...  Read the complete review

1571 ~~~~~ I have been using this FREE service from BT for a few months now and think that the service is a very good idea... But not alot of people know that there are two services from BT using the 1571. The first is the service that the customer PAYS for. I think this service is just over £5.00 per quater. The other is ...  Read the complete review

A problem that we have no doubt have had. The phone being engaged whilst on the internet its one of the drawbacks on the internet. I would love to have a new line put in but a friend told me that I would have to pay line rental on that every month. If BT were to offer a second line for a one of fee then I would be glad. However they have ...  Read the complete review

Free!,but for how long. The beauty of this service is its totally free (at the moment) and is very simple to initiate. Simply press 1571 and follow the automated confirmation process. And by pressing number one when told you have completed the sign up in around two minutes. The answering service takes five working days to be set up on ...  Read the complete review

Oh boy, do I hate change! My beloved answerphone has been spurned and cast out by my flatmates! They never got the hang of how to play a message and tripped over the little thing every time they needed to reach the video cabinet. It's days were numbered - then erased. In an attempt to de-clutter the living room and create a ...  Read the complete review

Well, I pretty much hate all things BT and theres never usually such a thing as a free lunch with them but I must say im fairly pleased with this new service. As I spend alot of my time on the internet (usually writing on dooyoo!) I find it especially useful and it does actually do me some good, although I still have to pay a fortune for my phone ...  Read the complete review

We’ve had call waiting for a few years now, which you have to pay for, but is useful. We had the option of 1571 that you used to have to pay for as well until recently, we stuck with call waiting. That is till recently moi, the annoying teenager of the household, run a £40 phone bill just for the internet by using the wrong dial up ...  Read the complete review

When my ex-boyfriend left and got custody of the answering machine, I never got round to replacing it. However, I was spending a lot of time on the Internet, surfing, chatting etc and soon found that people couldn?t get hold of me. I was using One-Tel at the time for international and mobile calls, and they introduced a voicemail service using the ...  Read the complete review

It's free and helpful. - Advantages: free, easy, optional - Disadvantages: low funtions

When we switched over telecom provider from our somewhat frustrating, and at times annoying Eurobell to BT, we were offered the option to have BT's free 1571 answer service. Having had a similar service with our previous telecom provider, I was a little unsure to say the least. You see when we had the service prior to moving over to BT we were ...  Read the complete review

Flawed, but okay. BT answer 1571 is a ?free? answering machine that takes calls when your phone line is engaged etc. If you have been thinking about getting a answering machine, you can get this one for free (as long as you?re a BT customer), which is good. So it?s a basic answering machine. Now I?ll tell you about some of the ...  Read the complete review

Finally, a convincing way to stop being nagged to get off the internet because somebody MIGHT be ringing. In theorie, BT have come up with a very good service for there customers. But at this infantile stage of the 1571 service it could turn out to be a great success, or a total waste. Over the past couple of years, BT have ...  Read the complete review

I enquired about getting BT's free 1571 service but was not allowed to as I also subscribe to another telephone provider. Although I pay my full quarterly fees(which add up to enough without calls) I am not elegible to use 1571. BT's service is therefore, in my opinion, A way of being blackmailed into not having a choice in ...  Read the complete review