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This is true - and you can buy fractional shares too. Only diasadvantage is T212 is not very good for share/company information or getting advance notifications or payments for Divi Payments / IPOs etc. But like I mentioned in previous post you get for what you pay for - and both: HL and T212 are good in their own ways and good consumers have a choice for whatever service one is after.

GL & ATB.

Hi BigtimeBilly,

What answers did you get from your HL queries for the new charges?

Personally, I dont think it is good if you hold shares in the account and not trade frequently or at all. Which I think is their new method to make money off stagnant accounts. Especially, when you see what the new price of the future monthly payments will be. For example, £100K in share holding with no monthly trades - so just holding the shares - the charge is 1p per month. But new pricing is £12.50 per month - negligible, if you got £100K but from 1p charge to £12.50 so depends how you see it. Another side, is if you do trade monthly say 10-15x trades a month as well as holding £100K shares - your new monthly payment charge is £500 per month - which is not cheap even with £100K share holding as the above is 6% reduction (ie. £6000 (12 x £500) charge) if you trade that number of times.

So in short - not good, but the document makes out its very cheap and good for the customer. Will be interesting to see what happens to their share price.

Solution - would be to use another platform if fees or charges at cheap price is what you are after. I use multiple, and use HL for information and their JISA for children and their telephony service when their is issues is very good - so guess you get charged for what you pay for…..in my experience anyway.

GL & ATB :)

Q3 Report out on Thursday 5th Feb 2026.

Ex-Dividend Payment date due on 11th Feb 2026.

GLA & ATB

Thanks very much Surprised - much appreciated (ˆ◡ˆ)

Wondering if someone can clarify if the following is true?

“Shareholders in Whitbread can claim a Shareholder Benefits Card offering a range of discounts – including free Premier Inn breakfasts for up to two adults and 10% off food and drink in Whitbread-owned restaurants across the UK. You’ll need to own at least 64 shares in the company to qualify.”

If true, how do you obtain the perks? ie. Does Whitbread send you vouchers or send you a QR code or Letter?

Thanks in advance.

Perhaps all the doom and gloom of economic news about UK and Chancellors negative plans and slow plans from BT - people selling up to buy elsewhere where opportunity is better and wait to get back into BT when it much lower.

Whoever mentioned BT back at 140-150p may not be as silly now - seeing as no news has thrown the SP down another few pence today.

GLA & ATB.

Long term dividend buy? What does that mean? As there has been no announcement or any Dividends provided from Shawbrook on this IPO.

The broker downgrades Britain's BT to

"underperform" from "neutral", as the

company's Openreach national network is losing customers to altnets in a no longer growing UK broadband market, and amid worsening pricing trends

(Reporting by Marta Frackowiak)

((mailto:marta.frackowiak@thomsonreuters.com)

Market sure don’t like it! They must think it’s the start - of the foot in the door type scenario - small drip (coulle of guys on board) to full sea (takeover).

Interesting times ahead - fasten seatbelts needed. As cannot see Bharti and his exec. hanging around to get things moving ASAP when on board.

GLA

My thoughts as well Abject.

Does make you wonder eh! Worse is messages like that causes others to believe it.

Forums are dangerous to the amateur or those oblivious to how this game works.

Always DYOR research all!

GLA & ATB

BT Group has performed a major U-turn on pushing EE as its consumer facing brand by appointing a new agency to “think beyond advertising” to promote BT’s broadband and fixed-line services to both businesses and consumers.

The move, which will see Uncommon Creative Studio take on the brief, follows leadership changes at BT and a shift in strategy to bring back the BT brand.

Saatchi & Saatchi and Adam & Eve DDB lost out in the pitch, with Uncommon due to take on both agencies’ duties on the brand going forward.

The new brief is to build “a long-term creative platform for the BT brand, aiming to help it build cultural relevance.”

BT Group managing director of group brand Cilesta van Doorn said: “We had a responsibility to find the right partner to help us think beyond advertising, one who could help us redefine the role BT should play in modern Britain.

“Uncommon’s thinking and ambition stood out from the start. Their ideas go to the heart of what BT means to our customers and our people, and we’re excited to bring this to life together and shape this next exciting chapter for BT.”

Uncommon Creative Studio co-founder Nils Leonard added: “It is a huge privilege to partner with one of Britain’s most-loved and important brands, and to see them recognised once again for the incredible contributions they have made not just to British culture, but to our very way of life. This partnership with BT at the highest level will see every facet of the studio brought to bear on their behalf.”

I concur AbjectPerformer with your commenr regarding waiting for £5 against time (and that’s if it ever gets there again) - as much better investments out there to move any realised gains from here (if need be).

Everyone has their own strategy with their portfolio(s).

GLA & ATB.

@NewKOTB - hahaha are YOU serious more like? You think RNS is where there is only news? I was asking out the box.

Has this been pumped and dumped on no news?

It will be back to £2 or near to by next Thursday (not this Friday) as XD next Thursday - so will drop by 2.5-3% (i.e. 5.8p) - will then see where the shareprice will go after XD date and what will be the new resistance.

GLA & ATB.

BT (inc. Plusnet and EE) is expected to reveal a change to their existing mid-contract pricing policy, which means that new customers who sign-up for a broadband package on or after 31st July 2025 (5th August with Plusnet) will be subject to a +£4 price rise on 31st March 2026 and then +£4 again on 31st March 2027 (up from the previous £3 increase). Mobile plans will also increase, by different amounts.

Just to recap. At the start of 2025 Ofcom began requiring telecoms providers to adopt a new approach to mid-contract price hikes, which did away with the old percentage and inflation-based model – replacing it with one that must now set out such price rises “clearly and up-front, in pounds and pence, when a customer signs up” (here). This made annual price hikes clearer and more transparent, but not necessarily cheaper.

In response, many providers did as BT has since done by setting out a new pricing policy that would increase the price that customers pay by £3 extra per month from March or April each year (this will vary a bit for other providers). The first one hit this year and BT (including Plusnet and EE) had been on course to apply the same level again from 31st March 2026 and onwards.

However, ISPreview understands that BT and its associated ISPs are due to replace the +£3 policy with a larger rise of +£4, although this will only apply to new customers who sign-up on or after 31st July 2025 (we assume this will also include re-contracting customers after this date too). We’re currently attempting to get a comment from the operator, although the change is likely occurring to help balance the provider’s risk now that inflation has remained higher for longer than expected.

The above comment reflects the fact that Ofcom’s new approach naturally increases the risk for providers that previously adopted the CPI/RPI + 3-4% model for annual hikes, especially those that offer longer contract terms. The provider now has to balance that greater risk through their pricing (i.e. static pricing is harder to set over a longer period of time than one set against a dynamic level of inflation, which may go up or down).

Well done all ^___^

GLA & ATB

These are just comments on open public forum…There is no bid coming anytime soon…So let those keep living in hope of a bid of something that won’t happen until 2040-2050.

GLA & ATB.

@Aus3009 - Yes agreed she does seem to like to burn shorters hahah! Although still think she smoke and mirrors and just progressing what was already in motion….and will be gone before 2030 (I reckon 2027-2028 if I was to hazard a guess).

@AbjectPerformer - Ha good one, just heavily invested (largest holding in my portfolio) in at 98p days and have some friends who work at the firm and hear about what goes on. I wish I worked there - work seems like a doddle there but work life is not how it use to be back in the days apparently whatever that means.

P.S What do you mean about BT share is a bet against it’s staff? And if you are able to do what - you can make money both ends?

Good target for BT to have by 2030 - esp. if BT can obtain that much free cashflow a year or two in advance of that target year - it will look good to the City and Institutions as they will have exceeded the target amount well ahead of predicted year - which should accelerate the SP/Cashflow even quicker to £4-£5 if no external factors come in to play that scuppers the uptrend currently and near future.

Let’s wait and see eh!! On positive note - good to see £2 touched briefly. Fingers crossed results this week pushes BT past £2 barrier and sets new resistance price :)

GLA & ATB.