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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
    lin49 Posts: 33 Forumite
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    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
  • 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
    lin49 Posts: 33 Forumite
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    Anybody have any dealings with Nowbroadband? Some of the reviews are not good
  • 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
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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


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