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Can You Haggle With Your ISP

While watching The Box tonight I saw an ad for one of the mobile phone companies offering free texts, and free internet access if you top up £10 month. Doesn't really matter which company, I suppose they'll all get around to doing something similar.

Anyway it set me to thinking about my own home internet connection. I work through Freedom2Surf and they host a number of small websites and blogs for me. I know I could shop around and get a cheaper connection but I want to keep everything in the one place; but I digress.

There has been a really big explosion in what home computers can do over the past ten years or so. Just think of the average hard disk now, and the amount of memory the average computer has compared with ten or even five years ago! Now I'm sure commercial computers have seen as big, if not a bigger, jump in their capabilities over the same period.

If I'm right and there has been this major change in the computer world how is that showing itself in the world if ISP's? Are they starting to fight more fiercely for customers and are there bargains to be had out there, when it comes to service provision and hosting?

Read the various Sky posts and you'll see how a little haggling often works wonders. Has anyone ever tried this with their ISP and got a better deal? I'd certainly be interested to know.

Comments

  • Yes I have ..... and got 6 months FREE with my ISP!! :j I asked for my MAC code and obviously they really didn't want to give it, they looked at my account and said that I was such a loyal customer that they wanted to keep me. :T Lucky me .. nice offer

    Beware, they are making up for their generosity but are trying to keep me, I have the MAC code now so will give them a chance to improve (having left it for a few days) - so watch this space. :think::think:
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    LindyLou :hello:
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  • M4RKM
    M4RKM Posts: 5,132 Forumite
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    The thing is, that ISPS used to offer a lot, like the hosting etc etc, but the big names these days are not interested in that, so offer a few email addresses, and your internet access, so to change from f2s, and find someone fully featured, is probably going to be more difficult than you think..

    M
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