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Comparing costs of BT to TalkTalk

I get home phone and b/band from BT (unlimited downloads). I pay approx £40 a month for this.

Talk Talk are offering me a deal that would take my bill to just under £18 a month. That's BT line rental £11.25 per month adn Talk Talk b/band 40GB download alllowance, free local calls, unlimited evening and weekend calls to landlines.

I'm out of contract with BT very soon and I can't see how BT can compete with this cost. I do need a good download allowance because i work from home on the net and my work can involve heavy download amounts. As far as I'm aware, BT charge about £25 month just for broadband and line rental is in addition to that.

Does anyone know what BT's best price would be at the moment?

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  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
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    edited 10 October 2009 at 7:56PM
    £35.71 after the first 3 months (18 month contract) - see HERE.

    'Free' local calls are not included though, just evening and weekend.
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • Isklar
    Isklar Posts: 140 Forumite
    I did look at that page but found it confusing because I wasn't sure if line rental was included in those prices. I see from the total you've calculated that it isn't included.
    Thank you.

    TalkTalk is a lot cheaper, but I'm worried about customer service. There again, as a BT customer for over 20 years with very few problems previously, I've recently started having major problems with their customer service too.
  • syko29793
    syko29793 Posts: 574 Forumite
    BT will offer a reduced price deal to stay with them.
    Call 0800 800 030
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