Cheapest Home Phones Article Discussion

nollychips

A bit of advice please:

Currently paying £19.00 per month line rental ( with a few extras ) on a BT Line rental and £12.99 with AOL for broadband with free 24/7 landline and national calls, totalling £20.00 per month with calls including to mobiles at 12p day and 7p night. Total monthly bill is about £40.00 per month.
AOL are offering £26.24 per month for line rental and calls as above.

Question 1 Are there any downsides to having line rental off AOL ?
Question 2 Is there a better deal available ?

There is no cable available and I can only get 4mb on my broadband where I live.

Replys welcome

Chips:eek:

Heinz

BT's charges for line rental and inclusive calls to 01, 02, 03, 0845 and 0870 numbers are £11.54 + £4.99 (£16.53) - which makes AOL's offer of £26.24 seem very expensive.

In any case, I doubt AOL will include calls to mobiles in their package.

theloft

nollychips wrote: »

A bit of advice please:
Question 1 Are there any downsides to having line rental off AOL ?
Question 2 Is there a better deal available ?
Chips:eek:

I have several friends who USED to be with AOL !! I do not know anyone who is happy with them. Take a look at the deal shown on here with BT, then phone o2 (08002300202) and tell them you are looking for a deal. I have found them first class.

wongryt

I know this is a bit late,
but have just got off the phoe with talktalk. I'm an existing out of contract broadband/phone customer.

Phoned up threatened to leave if they didn't give me the same deal that was offered online (12mths free). They put me through to retentions and will migrate me to the online deal with the free 12mths, waive the connection fee as I'm already connected.

I also asked if they would give me the cashback I would have got if I'd have cancelled and reapplied via topcashback. The call centre person said they couldn't apply the £30 as a discount, but she could manually apply a £5 discount off the bill for the next 6 months, which is the same, but I know I'll get it were cashback I might not.

Bottom line, If your already with TalkTalk and out of contract and you want their current deal, phone up and ask for it (and anything else) seems to work.

Ricky:beer:

Jools72

I have just had a call from Talk Talk and I'm in a quandry???? I am currently with BT and pay £45.00 per month for Line Rental all free calls to usual numbers day & night and broadband.

The chap on the phone gave me details of this deal:

Same as BT all free calls to ususal numbers day & night £15.98pm
Broadband £6.99pm = total of £21.90pm I think !!

So in the grand scheme of it I am saving over half what I pay BT which to me at the moment is fantastic news, BUT I am a bit dubious........ can't shake the feeling I'm being done over if you know what I mean, hidden extras etc they say NOT but everyone tells you that for a sale!! as it is alot off what i'm currently paying, been with BT for years so is it me being with them for years and not changed that i'm a bit reluctant?? I do have from 14 days of the paperwork arriving here to change my mind.

Can anyone put my mind at rest or is it just too good to be true lol :-) many thanks xx

deanos

Im with Talk Talk and i pay £6.99 for the broadband and free local calls, free weekend/evening calls and £11.49 line rental so total is £17.99 a month , they charge an extra £4 for daytime calls so it sound's correct.

Just check you exchange is enabled with Talk Talk >

http://www.samknows.com/old/broadband/search.php

if it not then it will cost alot more

Jools72

Broadband availability overviewADSL:Yes
SDSL:No LLU services:No Cable:No Wireless:No

BT Wholesale informationADSL status:Enabled as of 04/05/2005
ADSL Max status:Enabled as of 31/03/2006
SDSL status:Not available
21CN WBC status:Not available
FTTC status:Not available
Wireless broadband availabilityLTT Broadband:Not available
Now Wireless:Not available
OnLincolnshire:Not available
Urban Wimax:Not available
Kijoma:Not available
EMNET Notts:Not available
Orbital / VFast:Not available
Cable broadband availabilityVirgin Media:Not availableSmallworld Media:Not available

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LLU operator presence What is this? AOL:Not available
O2 / Be:Not available
C&W / Bulldog:Not available
Edge Telecom:Not available
Entanet:Not available
Lumison:Not available
NewNet:Not available
Node4:Not available
Orange:Not available
Pipex:Not available
Sky / Easynet:Not available
Smallworld:Not available
TalkTalk (CPW):Not available
Tiscali:Not available
Tiscali TV:Not available
WB Internet:Not available
Zen Internet:Not available
Ofcom Classification What's this?
Market 1
This exchange has BT Wholesale as the

This is the result, sorry but i'm not up on techie things and don't understand it!! could you let me know if i'm in for an extra cost????? thanks :-) x

deanos

It says Talk Talk is not available so the broadband etc will be £33.38 in total + £4 for the anytime calls

As you're currently in an area which isn't on the main TalkTalk network your Essentials will cost £33.48 per month. That's still great value for the UK's most flexible phone and broadband.
Your Essentials Package £33.48
Broadband and phone £6.99
Chargeable Capacity £15.00
Line rental £11.49

Jools72

oohhh dont think it's worth the hassle, but they did say it was in our area???????? who to believe............. might just leave it lol ..........

thanks deanos much appreciated x

theloft

Jools72 wrote: »

oohhh dont think it's worth the hassle, but they did say it was in our area???????? who to believe............. might just leave it lol ..........thanks deanos much appreciated x

Phone BT, ask for retentions department and tell them you have been offered a better deal by TalkTalk, what can they offer you to stay !!!!!