Phone/TV/Broadband Packages

macman

Whatever else you do-switch your phone tariff today. £25 per month on calls is just absurd.
Oh, and make sure you are on paper-free billing and monthly DD to get the lowest line rental rate.

Hypothetical_2

Thanks, macman. I want to go with O2 BB and BT Anytime and sort it online today if possible. Links would be handy, especially as regards the cashback on the O2 deal. TIA.

Hypothetical_2

Just a thought. If I go O2 BB, will I loose my @btinternet.com email addie?

macman

Switch your tariff online here. Saves those tedious call centres. Anytime is a 12m contract.
https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerOrders/control/orderproduct?productId=CON-27455&productKey=CON-CHANGE_CALL_PLAN&LR_OPTION=showLR
Then ring BT for your MAC for the broadband-do not cancel the service. Normally you will get that within 5 days. BT will then offer you a better deal to stay-resist that at all costs.
Once you have your MAC, sign up for 02 online via your preferred cashback site, Quidco or topcashback both currently offer £50 (make sure you clear your cookies first to ensure that the transaction tracks). Just click through to 02 once you have logged into the cashback site, then sign up to your preferred tariff. Switching broadband normally takes 7-10 days.
You will probably lose your BT email address, but not immediately, it varies. Just sign up to GMail instead, takes 5 minutes, then you can change ISP's as you wish and retain your address.
If you cannot face migrating your email address then you are stuck with BT forever...

Savvy_Spender_South

If cable is an option look to switch to Virgin perhaps.

2 months free up front of 12 gives you a straight £100 + welcome on your current viewing habbits.

Up to 10MB BB is £10 unlimited download.

V+ is same as Sky+ except you get On demand services such as BBC and 4OD on your TV - lush!

Line rental is 11.99 so a bit less than BT. HD is £10 same as sky.

ESPN comes free

So as a package you would save every month and have more services.

If you speak to Virgin they will email you letters to send to BT etc to cancel your current supply.

Final note, if you have a mate on Virgin use their email as a recommend and you get an additional £30 each of your bills as another welcome incentive.

macman

Agree with savvy, if you price up your own current Sky package on the cable equivalent and it's cheaper than Sky, then that is the best negotiating tool you can have-just tell retentions that you're off to VM unless they can do better.

Hypothetical_2

Result #1 - Sky have just reduced our TV package from £60 pm (soon to become £63) to £52 pm to beat an alternative Virgin Media tariff. Thanks for the help so far.

Hypothetical_2

Having discussed with the rest of the family the potential of losing btinternet email addies, the general consensus is that we'd prefer not to lose them.

What's the best deal we can expect from BT, do you think?

Heinz

Hypothetical wrote: »

Having discussed with the rest of the family the potential of losing btinternet email addies, the general consensus is that we'd prefer not to lose them.

What's the best deal we can expect from BT, do you think?

I phone every year and, by agreeing to a new 12 month contract for BT Total Broadband Option 1, get a 50% discount (I pay £7.50/month).

macman

BT Option 1 is fine if you can live with a cap of 10GB, you didn't say what you have at present. Whereas O2 LLU is unlimited. BB Option 1 and Anytime bundle is £15.99 on BT's quoted pricing anyway, so even if you don't negotiate you're still saving a packet.
Big mistake not going for 02 IMHO. Changing your email address takes about 1-2 hours work usually, do it once with Gmail and you never have to do it again, even if you were to switch ISP's every year.
One last thought to leave you with:
http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php