AOL - best current deal?

midflight

Hi folks,

My dad's been with AOL for about 4 years, and wants to stick with them, but I've just found out he's still paying a whopping £17.99 a month for only 2Mb speed, on a wired modem, and nothing else (his phone line is with BT, so standard line rental there, with no free calls). He doesn't want a TV/mobile phone package.

Just wondered if anyone knew what the best deal currently available is when you're renegotiating your contract with AOL? Or what the best rival deal is? We plan to ring them after christmas to discuss, but thought I'd try to find out some info on here first

Any advice much appreciated...

gardner1

you can get bt call plan for £14.85 incl all landline calls 24/7 add on o2 broadband 8meg from £7.50

jonejayc

i have been with aol for about 8 years and i pay £6.99 a month for up to 8mb speed (which i actually recieive about 5mb due to telephone exchange),
free wireless router and free aol talk anytime. This is a ongoing 12 month contract.
hope this helps

silver.squirrell

Hi,

It all depends on where you live. Because I am so far away from my exchange I only get 0.5mb download. Also when I threatened to leave AOL they gave me a wireless router but only reduced my cost from £19.99 to £14.95 per month unlike jonejayc above I pay extra for the AOL talk Anytime They wouldn't budge on the price because of the exchange I was on. I am thinking of getting a dongle which will give me a quicker broadband connection

peediedj

yes depends where you live,funnily enough iam with aol and only get 2mb,yet a frined stays further away from the exchange than me and gets 5mb,as shes in a brand new house all the lines are new

Anon

jonejayc wrote: »

i have been with aol for about 8 years and i pay £6.99 a month for up to 8mb speed (which i actually recieive about 5mb due to telephone exchange),
free wireless router and free aol talk anytime. This is a ongoing 12 month contract.
hope this helps

Excellent discount - has anyone got this or done any better?

Many thanks

Anon

jonejayc

yes i got this!, i phoned them up and told them i was going to sky, they gave me my mac code, then telephoned the next day and offered me this deal, forgot to add it does have a download cap of 40gb which is enough for me.
phone the cancellation department and give it a try

midflight

That does seem like a really good deal!

Anyone else?

Going round to my Dads early next week to give them a ring.

Cheers

Viking17

jonejayc wrote: »

i have been with aol for about 8 years and i pay £6.99 a month for up to 8mb speed (which i actually recieive about 5mb due to telephone exchange),
free wireless router and free aol talk anytime. This is a ongoing 12 month contract.
hope this helps

Thanks Guy's was tied in until March 11th on a lesser package, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. Glad I did, as I just got exactly the same deal.:j

jonejayc

nice one viking, im glad you backed me up because nobody ever beleives me. Midflight dont take any excuses from aol, if you dont get what you want ask for your mac code they will back down.

Anon

I am currently awaiting the MAC, no offer of a good deal despite paying full price for many years ;( . Next stop, o2.

Anon