Home Telecom

Mirey

Hello!

I need to get my internet + a phone line sorted. My landlord recommended hometelecom.co.uk (no doubt they get a slice of what I pay).

I don't care so much about the contract length (most seem to be 12 month, home telecome offer from 6 months...), which seems to be HT's main selling point.

They're also quite cheap (£23 for BB + phone line). I'm not sure if they have an activiation fee, I've emailed them.

I'm having a problem finding much about them though, with "home telecom" being a rather generic thing to search for.

The main reason I don't trust them is they say they offer fantastic home phone rates, but their only package is £5 for 300 anytime minutes, and it doesn't include free landline calls beyond that. I won't actually use the landline, but this sales line makes me distrust them.

I was just wondering if anyone has any experiance with this company?

I guess if I hear bad things, or they have a high installation fee, I'll go with Virgin(who have it free installation), but that costs £32/month (for phone line + 30MB broadband) (though I have a mobile with them, so maybe I can get a deal... ;p)

TL, DR: has anyone had any experiance with Home Telecom?

macman

http://www.hometelecom.co.uk/
Just another BT reseller. Use www.samknows.com and do an exchange search for your LLU providers.

Mirey

macman wrote: »

.. Just another BT reseller. Use ... and do an exchange search for your LLU providers.

"You are approximately 334 metres from the exchange. Note that this is the straight line distance - the actual cable length will be longer!"

heh, who'd have though.

Thanks

They charge £50/70 depending on contract length. This complicates things a bit... who to choose! I guess I'll phone up virgin and see if I can get them to include my virgin mobile with them and see if it works out cheaper I guess.

macman

The point of the samknows search is to identify your LLU providers-bottom right hand corner.
But on that basis you should be able to get a very fast ADSL service.

Mirey

macman wrote: »

The point of the samknows search is to identify your LLU providers-bottom right hand corner.
But on that basis you should be able to get a very fast ADSL service.

Yeah, though why does that matter? It just means who I can have broadband with?

You are connected to the Redcliffe telephone exchange.
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I think I'll go with virgin. I've not really had a problem with them before in the past. It costs £10 a month more (though 50+10*3 = 80, so really its only £3.33 a month more in the first year), and I'll get free evening and weekend calls to landline/0870 numbers...

guh, this is such a pain.

macman

No, there are dozens of other providers you can have your broadband with-that lists just the LLU ones.