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Low-cost phone service for those on qualifying benefits

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  • nannytone_2
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    Bananas123 wrote: »
    ...do without internet (*at home) 6 months.

    = 1 year unlimited acess, for following twelve months.

    *free internet all around places.


    if you can't afford, to save ~£240 for a years unlimited internet, then you don't get internet.

    for me, anyway.

    ...would probably rather go find free internet with a coffee somewhere, for cheaper then £10 /pm, baring in mind, the 10gb ...also get coffee.

    baring in mind internet is a luxuary / expensive anyway.
    2 things.
    1. you would probably spend more over the year on coffee than you would paying for a broadband connection.

    2. internet is no longer a luxury and is becoming more and more essential.

    even those on benefit are required to do most things online, from form filling to job seeking.

    for the disabled it is essential to keep any real degree of independence.
    from shopping to banking to keeping in touch with friends/family.

    without an internet commotion, i would need a third part to organise virtually everything for me.
    i am more than capable of dealing with my own affairs and like anyone else, prefer to keep my private information, private!

    the data allowance is much too low for anyone that uses the internet to manage their daily lives
  • Diary wrote: »
    If you had glanced at the links kindly provided you would see that simply isn't true.

    I'm going off what BT told me when I enquired about this.
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