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Rattling the Cage
al_yrpal
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I've had BT broadband for several years and just use the Basic one. I am very happy with it because whilst all around me, people with 'cheaper' services are always complaining about their service being down I can only remember having my BT service down for a few hours once when there was a countrywide 'outage' for a few hours. Today I thought I'd rattle BT's cage so I rang and asked them for a MAC code to change supplier. I was passed through to sales. They offered me an upgrade towards 8 Meg from the current 2 Meg (the new speed depends on the fastest speed my line will take reliably as determined by a 10 day test by them), and £4 a month off for 12 months. The only proviso is a 12 month committment. i. e. £48 saved and faster broadband to boot!
My phone calls are with ONETEL - £3.99pm for all evening and weekend calls, but their voicemail is crap, so I asked about that. They offered to put me onto BT Option 2 free for 12 months,(which includes all evening and weekend calls for £3.95 per month) saving £3.95 per month in return for an 18 month committment, thus costing £23.70 over 18 months, but saving another £48.
It pays to rattle cages occasionally:D
Al
My phone calls are with ONETEL - £3.99pm for all evening and weekend calls, but their voicemail is crap, so I asked about that. They offered to put me onto BT Option 2 free for 12 months,(which includes all evening and weekend calls for £3.95 per month) saving £3.95 per month in return for an 18 month committment, thus costing £23.70 over 18 months, but saving another £48.
It pays to rattle cages occasionally:D
Al
Survivor of debt, redundancy, endowment scams, share crashes, sky-high inflation, lousy financial advice, and multiple house price booms. Comfortably retired after learning to back my own judgement.
This is not advice - hopefully it's common sense..
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