CPW/TT to offer FREE broadband (merged)

michaels

Anyone think if you ordered this in the correct way you could get both quidco 20 quids for landline and broadband?!

itsarichmansworld

Hi Guys

I work for CPW so I can give you the info straight from Mr Dunstone.

Free calls on talk 3 to any uk landline.
Free International Calls to 28 countries eu canada usa and nz and australia.
Up to 8meg bb (were available) Free.

All you pay is 9.99 for talk3 and 11 for line rental.

40 gb download limit.

18 month contract

one of connection charge 29.99 (on 1st bill.)

Need any more info just ask!

digp

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/talktalk/servlet/gben-home-Home - it says free broadband for ever

ROBDOLPHIN66

Do you keep your original phone number?
If we were to take out a Sky subscription, would this be possible / cause any problems?
Thankyou

koru

itsarichmansworld wrote:

Hi Guys

I work for CPW so I can give you the info straight from Mr Dunstone.

Free calls...
...Need any more info just ask!

OK. Let me take you up on that offer. The deal sounds good on paper. The main concerns raised in this thread and others are poor customer service and traffic management. A lot of people are going to need some comfort on these points before committing to an 18 month contract.

No doubt CPW will claim that any bad feedback on CS is just a few exceptions, or that it has retrained its CS staff to improve service. But that's the sort of thing you hear all the time from companies and it is often BS. In practice, we won't know until we have made the switch. Is there some sort of trial period or other way we can get out without significant penalty if we find that service is as poor as many reports suggest?

Any earlier post from someone claiming to be a CPW employee (and I have no reason to doubt they are), said that peer to peer traffic is restricted at peak times. Is there some sort of guarantee that there will be no other traffic management over the 18 month period? Or at least a right to leave without penalty, if CPW suddenly decide they need to restrict some other kind of traffic that is degrading overall quality of service to customers?

SamMoffatt28

itsarichmansworld wrote:

All you pay is 9.99 for talk3 and 11 for line rental.

40 gb download limit.

18 month contract

one of connection charge 29.99 (on 1st bill.)

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And of course the extra ten quid they charge for broadband if you are not in a free broadband area like me ....

wornout

40 gb download limit?

Can someone explain this please....................for instance, how long would it take to download 40 gb.

I know nothing of these things so sorry if this seems like a really stupid question.

Steve_xx

I note the one-off charge of £29.99 for transferring customers from their BT exchange line to TalkTalks.

My question to any CPW employee therefore is: If a customer is already subscribing to CPW for their line rental, will the customer still be subjected to the £29.99 transfer charge if he/she wishes to take up the latest broadband package offer?

Steve_xx

mikemoate wrote:

Good try Scoop but that doesn't really wash. None of those things really effect my ability to get "free broadband" from talk talk, except for when (or if) my exchange gets unbundled by you. I am sure you will be more than happy to provide the service to customers of other llu providers and cable companies if they do the necessary in respect of their telephone line. As for "obvious reasons" you are already saying you are going to do 1,000 exchanges. At the moment it would be like signing up to a "pig in poke" contest.

None of these things may "effect" your ability. But they may affect it!

koru

wornout wrote:

40 gb download limit?

Can someone explain this please....................for instance, how long would it take to download 40 gb.

I know nothing of these things so sorry if this seems like a really stupid question.

Most people would consider this a huge limit. I have a limit of 2GB per month and I find it is fine for me, even though I spend hours at my computer every day. Unless you are downloading lots of movies or TV programmes, or huge software files (such as daily distributions of linux), or sharing loads of music in p2p networks, you will struggle to use more than 1-2 MB per month. Viewing webpages and downloading emails uses very little traffic.

It isn't really relevant to ask how long it would take to download 40GB, because very few people download constantly. Imagine you had a car which you were only allowed to drive for 10,000 miles per year. You could drive that in about 5-6 days at full pelt in the motorway, but that isn't really relevant as you are hardly likely to want to drive non-stop for 5-6 days. If you are only going to use it for short trips to the shops and work and the odd long trip, 10000 miles per year might be fine. But if you are a travelling salesman, 100,000 miles might seem inadequate. See what I mean?

If you were the broadband equivalent of a travelling salesman, you would have already known the answer to your question.