You can haggle, but can you haggle on the haggle!

kwikbreaks

Whether or not you get free TV after your minimum term depends on what you agreed at the time - it may have been a new customer freebie that expires and becomes payable later or it may be free forever. I have no idea which. You would need to clarify this with your ISP.

If you use a MAC there will normally be no down time. There may be some overlap on payment though as the precise changeover date depends on Openreach and they are pretty useless.

teddysmum

This sounds like the Sky deal that many of us took, on leaving O2.
The free broadband and tv ends after 12 months.


After the year, the broadband will be £10 or £7.50 if tv (which will become full priced) is kept, but it's up to us to renegotiate or go elsewhere.

lemon80

Quentin wrote: »

You can ask for a MAC on 15 MAy (given lemon80's example) but will have an early termination fee to pay.

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The "date of issue" I mentioned was the date of issue of the MAC - it can be given to an ISP to use to get your service change up to 30 days after it was produced. It has nothing to do with your contract.

One of you has to be mistaken here. If the MAC has nothing to do with the contract, then why is Quentin saying that I cannot request it at any time. Is requesting the MAC terminating my contract or not (regardless of when I ask for it). It's a simple enough question, isn't it? If I don't decide to use the MAC to give to another provider, then as kwikbreaks says, after 30 days it will expire. So that leads me to believe that asking for the MAC (at any time) does not cancel my contract.

kwikbreaks

The only person mistaken is you.

Requesting a MAC doesn't terminate your contract. If you ask for it on 15th and actually use it then you will have moved before the end of your minimum term so will, in theory, owe early termination fees although as we are only taliking about a week or so they wouldn't amount to much.

To reiterate - it isn't requesting a MAC that terminates a contract as there is nothing forcing you to use it.