I think we pay too much for phone/broadband

heggied

We signed up with the Post Office (on the Homephone + Broadband Standard, £20.50 pm) package a couple of months ago after the Orange price-hike. So far, it's all been OK (touch wood!)

As you'd expect, since it's physically the same connection (just billed etc by a different company) the speeds and reliability of the broadband connection are as before (which was fine - around 4Mb speeds and uptime upwards of 95%) and we're definitely saving money since we're not paying the £12-odd per month to BT now either.

I've no idea how it will pan out over the course of a year or so, but the first couple of months with it have been perfectly fine.

HTH
David

OldGreyFox

heggied wrote: »

and we're definitely saving money since we're not paying the £12-odd per month to BT now either.

Your paying it to PO instead.

TomsMom

heggied wrote: »

we're definitely saving money since we're not paying the £12-odd per month to BT now either. David

OldGreyFox wrote: »

Your paying it to PO instead.

Well, I'd be very happy with that as at the moment we're paying £12 for line rental to BT then another £15 for broadband with Virgin, so straight away it would save me £6.50 per month.

heggied wrote: »

We signed up with the Post Office (on the Homephone + Broadband Standard, £20.50 pm) package a couple of months ago after the Orange price-hike. So far, it's all been OK (touch wood!)David

Thanks for that David, that seems a much better deal than we're getting at the moment especially as it includes free evening and weekend calls plus inclusive weekend calls to UK mobiles. No minimum contract for the phone line is much better than the 18 month contract we've got with BT too.

Definitely one to bear in mind when the time comes to switch, just got to work out how to juggle an 18 month contract with BT and a 12 month contract with Virgin ending four months apart!

heggied

OldGreyFox wrote: »

Your paying it to PO instead.

Well, aye, but we're not also paying £15-odd to a separate ISP. We used to pay the £12 (or £11.75 or whatever it is) for line rental to BT, £14.99 to our old ISP and then £2 or so to 18185 for phone calls.

Now we just pay the post office around £8 less every month for effectively the same thing that we had before.

minneloon

I found I could not switch to cheap deals because of rural exchange but negotiated with BT to price match best deal I could find taking account of fee another provider would charge to use our exchange = Unlimited Braodband £19 pm.(Down from £24.45) Best option.