home phone & broadband - best deals? quick help appreciated!!

aiminghigh

As you do not seem to have heavy phone bills why not look at the Utility Warehouse latest offering Broadcall?

This is up to 8mb Broadband with Line rental included plus free week-end calls
If you took 2 more services from them ALL your calls would be free.

I admit to being a distributor with utility warehouse but believe its a genuinely good deal and don`t know how to bring it to peoples attention when they are asking for information without posting it here.

So is I`ve done anything wrong by posting an answer to your enquiry I apologise - go on the Internet and look up the details yourself.
chris

Heinz

aiminghigh wrote:

I admit to being a distributor with utility warehouse but believe its a genuinely good deal and don`t know how to bring it to peoples attention when they are asking for information without posting it here.

So is I`ve done anything wrong by posting an answer to your enquiry I apologise - go on the Internet and look up the details yourself.
chris

Unlike most UW distributors, you've at least been up front about your status.

Makes a pleasant change.

However, my opinion hasn't changed.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=275088

gavinh_2

thanx for all info anyway. due to needing to get a phoneline asap i have ordered bt (moving in a few days) and am going for talk talks broadband offer. i really should have asked for advice a bit sooner but never mind...

Heinz

gavinh wrote:

........... am going for talk talks broadband offer. i really should have asked for advice a bit sooner but never mind...

I'd advise setting aside half an hour or so to read THIS THREAD and THIS ARTICLE before taking that plunge.

gavinh_2

Heinz wrote:

I'd advise setting aside half an hour or so to read THIS THREAD and THIS ARTICLE before taking that plunge.

thanx heinz, iv already heard all about the recent problems with talk talk, read it in martins email and looked further. overall it seems most people are happy with talk talk.

Victors_Bruvver

I have tried to read all that I can possibly find in these threads and trying hard to digest the answer to my quandary. I have a BT line and have just moved and, as in all my moves in recent years, stuck with BT for both phone & internet.

For the internet I started with BT Anytime/Openworld over the years and when broadband came along went with their simplest option. With the phone I read these articles and used 1899 for daytime calls and Just Dial for evenings & weekends.

Now that those phone providers have changed their deals and with the advent of BT Total Broadband and "free" calls I thought I would start to investigate further. HOWEVER, although what I see from BT I like, I also see so called deals like free routers, money off the first three of six months when you sign but only for new customers. Nothing, zilch, for the loyal customer like me who has to take it or leave it. I cannot threaten to leave and go to another telecoms provider as this last move probably locked me into a 12 month contract. So the question is; does anyone know how to go about contacting the “right” people in BT so that I negotiate myself a better deal please?

telecomsavings

What about if you choose Cable Broadband from NTL,Telewest or White Cable. And then order Voip service from Vonage, they give you a free router and adapter.

Vonage charge: £7.99 per month (Unlimited UK landline calls) ***
Broadband charge: Around £17.99 per month

Total: £26.98 (I think, not to good at the maths)

*** Vonage is Voip

Vonage customers benefit from savings on long distant,mobile and international calls. Calls to mobiles cost from 5p per minute.

Related sites:

www.vonage.co.uk
www.telewest.co.uk
www.ntl.com

Victors_Bruvver

Many thanks for your helpful suggestions but although I live in the town centre (really great, get 8MPS!) the developer not only left out the second wire so that we could get Sky+ but also did not or could not liase with a cable company to wire eah flat up. So from a cable point of view I am stuffed!

Situation is that thecurrebt monthy cost from bt would be apprx. £38.98 (11.oo line rental - 17.00 BB - 4.99 to TalkTalk - 5.00 to 1899 and about another fiver to BT for other calls.) This would be compared with 25.99 for Total BB if I get the intro deal plus 11.00 for line rental - £36.99 in total.
Probably a no brainer when you add it up but I am looking for a loyaty deal with BT or I think I just end up being another of their pet mugs.

Edinburghlass_2

Check out Heinz suggestion about another CPS and ditch the TalkTalk at £4.99. Then work out what the other fiver is to BT for "other calls".

As 1899 is now the same connection charge as https://www.call18185.co.uk of 4p, sign up to them and use that for all your daytime calls, calls to 0845/0870 number that you may have to dial. If you have the free call display though please remember to put 2 calls a month via BT by dialing 1280.

From December/January your monthly line rental will reduce by 25p provided you sign up to BT for paperless billing

mobilegossip

telecomsavings wrote:

What about if you choose Cable Broadband from NTL,Telewest or White Cable. And then order Voip service from Vonage, they give you a free router and adapter.

Vonage charge: £7.99 per month (Unlimited UK landline calls) ***
Broadband charge: Around £17.99 per month

Total: £26.98 (I think, not to good at the maths)

*** Vonage is Voip

Vonage customers benefit from savings on long distant,mobile and international calls. Calls to mobiles cost from 5p per minute.

Related sites:

www.vonage.co.uk
www.telewest.co.uk
www.ntl.com

VONAGE!!!!

Have you bothered to look at their expensive rates . You need to do your research.;)

Then theirs an activation Fee £9.99 and a Shipping and Handling fee £8.99 for the FREE? router.

Plus read their T&C carefully about cancellation.