@Anonymous User
You can only get NowTV via the channels in the TV Guide if BT is your ISP, and you are subscribed to BT TV and you subscribe to NowTV via BT TV.
However, you can perfectly well watch NowTV via the NowTV app on any YouView box on any ISP, as long as you have a valid Pass, bought anywhere.
So the only thing you lose is the ability to record those channels.
You don’t even have to forgo the NowTV EPG for the Now & Next which is all you get on the app; you can download the BT TV app on your tablet or smartphone (anyone can; you don’t have to have anything else to do with BT) and see the channels in the full day-by-day one week forward and one week back EPG in the app, To find out what is on, or what has been on.
And you can pair the app with your YouView box, so you can schedule recordings of upcoming Freeview programmes and series, even if you are miles away from your box. Or just if someone else is watching it, and you don’t want to disturb them.
Even NowTV subscribers without a YouView box can benefit from the full EPG the BT TV app gives you.
Set a Payment PIN on your account so that no-one but you can buy memberships on it. Check your bank accounts monthly for any other unexpected payments to Now. That way you can at least nip them in the bud, while you and Now figure out whose fault they are.
If you take an offer that comes with a ‘free trial’ of Boost or another Membership, Cancel them straight away. You will still get the full duration of the trial, and if you decide you do want to continue with one or another of the trial products, just revisit the Cancel, and UnCancel it.
