Circa 26ppm is the "normal" price for unlimited (normal, i.e. not fibre) BB, phone line and evening/weekend calls
Though, I think new signups no longer get the evening/weekend calls included. But it's only, like, 2 quid extra.
They always have introductory offers on, um offer.
tim
why?
tim
Dave Plowman (News) has brought this to us :
Normal is what others are willing to pay, introductory offers are great for those willing to swap at each year end - which is what I always now for broadband, gas & electric, insurance and etc..
Simply because they take you for a mug, if you just stay with them and hike the price at each year end.
In article , Richard scribeth thus
Can recommend Zen, we use them no problems at all:)
Dave Plowman (News) expressed precisely :
We began with NTHell, which had lots of issues. Then we were with Tiscali for many years, then TT took them over. T had been not brilliant, but passable. With TT there were email delays, newsgroups access blocked, talking to their indian help desk impossible. The final straw was the TT hacking, the spam emails and spam phone calls and the cost kept rising.
So here I am on Plusnet, a really welcome relief from the stress of dealing with TT. TT seem to be trying to sell their service on every street corner - a good service, with good value, sells itself.
If you change ISP's, your old email address seems to continue to work for receive only - so no reason to panic about switching and losing incoming mail.
alan_m submitted this idea :
Very true, but why? Usenet uses almost nil capacity.
Not when knobheads are using it to commit copyright theft, it isn't. The correct solution is to drop all the binary groups. But by the time it became a problem, there were no Usenet admins left at ISPs.
I've just taken out BB+phone line = £125 for the year, paid in advance, ie just over £10 pm. Origin Broadband. Calls are expensive, but I don't make any from that phone.
That's their standard price, BTW.
HTH
Just moved to Plusnet (which is owned by BT anyway) and we are paying £34 per month for unlimited, 38Mb FTTC (actually getting 37Mb despite a lower estimate), anytime UK calls and 2000 minutes per month to UK mobiles.
SteveW
I found TalkTalk to actually give a pretty good phone and internet service, but when there was a line fault, they were awful to deal with to sort it out. They also lost my original order despite them acknowledging it by post! Put me on the wrong network, so I couldn't get the TV package that I had wanted and lied repeatedly about it being sorted out "next" month. Only after many calls, failures to call back, deliberate dropping of calls and outright lies about appointments to sort problems, did I accidentally get put through to a UK call centre who agreed to end my contract early, with no penalty.
SteveW
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It's also worth looking at the cashback available via Topcashback or Quidco. The little stars that MSE add to links to indicate they're getting a kickback quite often mean you can get a better deal via the cashback sites (ie you pocket the cashback that MSE would have got paid).
eg BT was offering 100 pounds cashback for basic broadband and phone the other day. (it made BT roughly competitive, but not a must-do unless you're tied to BT for some reason)
Theo
I just pay £12 every 2 years for my own domain and take 5 minutes to redirect it whenever I change ISP.
SteveW
En el artículo , Chris Hogg escribió:
ouch!
You need to shop around. You're bring ripped off.
Not true.
A few years ago I rang BT to get my MAC code as the rate had gone up considerably for a rural broadband service that barely got 1.5Mbps (purely distance to exchange issue).
I was asked why I was leaving and got offered a very low rate, unlimited broadband, weekend calls, and caller display. Subsequently moved house to suburbia so was expecting a big problem on renewal - rang up in good time as I was going overseas - no problem - same rate.
Renewed earlier this year, same deal again.
I make most of my outgoing calls through 1899 and my total annual telecoms bill, BT + 1899 is less that ?300.
There must be some sort of note on my account.
+1
Steve Walker formulated on Saturday :
I know it says 2000 minutes per month of included mobile calls, but did they actually mean 2000, rather than 200? 2000 seems an awful lot.
^ This ^
I had no idea people still rely on their ISP email address... It reminds me of the days when you had to change your mobile number every time you moved network.
Why not simply use gmail (or similar) that can be collected using POP and IMAP, or better still register a cheap domain and have your own email addresses forever?
+1
You can do likewise with Gmail or similar.
Apparently they use exactly the same infrastructure as BT, and that is consistently 9 MBs. And they say they don't throttle. I'm going to know pretty quickly come the day (in about 2 weeks) . . .
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