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mjfp509 wrote: »

Phoned up BT today as contract was ending. After quite a bit of haggling and refusing their initial offers, got fibre broadband for £0. Just paying the line rental cost.

Which is how much and what for exactly?

lin49

I am coming to the end of my contract with plusnet was paying £21 but now they want 26 and won’t budge should I go with it? It made no difference quoting that Nowbroadband and the Post Office are doing £21 a month including anytime calls

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lin49 wrote: »

I am coming to the end of my contract with plusnet was paying £21 but now they want 26 and won’t budge should I go with it? It made no difference quoting that Nowbroadband and the Post Office are doing £21 a month including anytime calls

Why pay £5 a month more for the same or lesser service? Go with NowTV over the PO.

lin49

Anybody have any dealings with Nowbroadband? Some of the reviews are not good

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lin49 wrote: »

Anybody have any dealings with Nowbroadband? Some of the reviews are not good

If you mean NowTV Broadband then they're very good in my experience.

SeeMe

lin49 wrote: »

I am coming to the end of my contract with plusnet was paying £21 but now they want 26 and won’t budge should I go with it? It made no difference quoting that Nowbroadband and the Post Office are doing £21 a month including anytime calls

Was looking at plusnet sounds like you are happy with the service.

oscarward

I'm currently with Plusnet fibre which was £29/month. Contract ends on 22/1 so asked what they could do to keep me.



They offered £6 discount off £44 / month.



Looking around Sky (we have sky TV as well) are looking good but have no capacity on the exchange to offer fibre.


Decisions decisions.

SeeMe

I have a long line on ADSL BB and my stats now are very poor on sky,


Down 4.1mb --up 0.3 --think the line has degraded over time, 8 years ago the top speed
i could achieve was still only Down 4.8-- Up 0.7, i now need fibre but will have to look hard for the best deal, living close to the street cabinet.

Sun-Is-Fun

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

Which is how much and what for exactly?

I pay line rental in advance for the a year so works out £18.32 a month. If you pay monthly, it's £19.99 line rental.

My deal was for normal fibre. Essentially, no cost for the fibre broadband, just paying line rental costs, as above.

I know I could have got this cheaper, i.e. post office fibre is the cheapest fibre at the moment with the £65 voucher offer (making it £15.49 a month), but have a really good deal for four mobile sims with BT that can't be beaten elsewhere, so would be losing money by swapping providers.

Sun-Is-Fun

lin49 wrote: »

Anybody have any dealings with Nowbroadband? Some of the reviews are not good

Father in law is with them, no issues. Had fibre, then downgraded to normal broadband, still fine.