Updated Find the cheapest broadband discussion thread

qa1

Cheapest b'band & line this year: ONLY £5.33/mth via special code



I'm really anooyed at this - they wont budge as an existing customer I still have to pay £18.99 - how do I negogiate this, I've tried over the phone but no they wont budge. I only have B/B and no TV with sky.

EdwardB

qa1 wrote: »

Cheapest b'band & line this year: ONLY £5.33/mth via special code

I'm really anooyed at this - they wont budge as an existing customer I still have to pay £18.99 - how do I negogiate this, I've tried over the phone but no they wont budge. I only have B/B and no TV with sky.

Imagine how the existing customers felt in Sept 2015 when Sky did a year's BB for under £6!

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/broadband/2015/09/urgent535-for-a-years-sky-line-rental-and-broadband

I agree with others in this thread, the Broadband Market is dysfunctional, OFCOM is useless, like other regulators it is full of ex-Industry lackeys who should all be sacked.

The CMA should never have allowed BT to buy EE Broadband and phone to be spun off separately. BT now controls EE, Plusnet, BT Broadband as well as BT Wholesale who control the rest of the market.

BB Companies would do well to start offering customers these low prices to STAY with them and build some customer loyalty.

I will be ending my Contract with Sky and if I have to go a year without (relying on my mobile allowance) then so be it.

teddysmum

14wrence wrote: »

After being with Virgin media since they started and before that Cable & Wireless, NTL and Nynex whom all eventually replaced each other. I have decided to finally get myself a better deal as they keep hiking the prices.

I don't want a phone line, or TV, just broadband and the best standalone fibre deal I can find is Vodafone at £23 p/month for 36MB or £28 for 72MB and a £30 (reduced from £60) connection fee (I am a Vodafone customer).

For some reason, Martin on the main site completely neglects to mention Vodafone or EE in the standalone fibre deals.

I just want to know people's thoughts on Vodafone. Anyone know any blags I cause to get it even cheaper or a month free before I sign up? Or does anyone know of a better fibre deal before I put pen to paper?

Thanking you all in advance..

Unless you use mobile or Virgin cable, you have to have a phone line (How else will the internet get to your premises?). However, some companies still offer standalone (ie you pay then just for broadband) but you need to have a landline from another provider.

teddysmum

qa1 wrote: »

Cheapest b'band & line this year: ONLY £5.33/mth via special code



I'm really anooyed at this - they wont budge as an existing customer I still have to pay £18.99 - how do I negogiate this, I've tried over the phone but no they wont budge. I only have B/B and no TV with sky.

You have to take it or leave, as I did. I was only offered free ADSL (but when line was £17.40) and staff said they are concentration on tv sales; especially for Q.

teddysmum

MoneySavingMouse wrote: »

They are also putting broadband up from £7.50 to £10 a month, from March.

They will deny that, saying that you have only lost the tv discount (was £2.50) off the full price of £15. There was also £5 off for having their phone line ( compulsory for new customers for ages).


For a few months they have been bragging about the fact that you don't need to have tv to have internet and phone, but don't mention that those with tv will not get the discount. Hence, instead of three possible prices, just the one of £10, whether or not you have tv .

EdwardB

teddysmum wrote: »

Unless you use mobile or Virgin cable, you have to have a phone line (How else will the internet get to your premises?). However, some companies still offer standalone (ie you pay then just for broadband) but you need to have a landline from another provider.

Not quite, I had a 4g service for a year on a sim only deal, no voice on it at all.

You do not HAVE to take a landline from another provider.

I use Whatapp and my mobile call allowance. never pay more than £10 a month and that includes 2gb of data.

Look just about every household is wired already, the investment has been made and BT has not made a loss, so this concept of paying for the line is outdated, just as is the rip off standing charge for energy, just go look at the price of electric and gas meters on Alibaba, we could have new ones each year for what we are charged.

When they charge you for installation it is all a game of musical chairs and BT also want to charge you to LEAVE (if you do not move to another provider)!!

Yet all of this can be done from a desk in 30 seconds with virtual switching, the switch is done on a computer screen on VPN's.

I do not use the landline that just happens to be on the same cable, if I had YouView with say TalkTalk with online content delivered via that line I would be expected to pay for it, so how come when I do not want or need a landline I still have to pay line rental?

Because OFCOM are a bunch of idiots, that is why.

There was a time when you go a free call allowances for anytime, evenings and weekends, international calls, calls to mobiles, Now you are lucky if you get weekend calls for under an hour.

IT'S A CON!

ffox

Do you reckon staff in senior positions, be it OFCOM or any other company have any clue of their business or market that they're operating in? I don't think so. They're so comfortable in their jobs that they've almost lost track of what they're doing. They might lift a piece of paper from this pile and deposit it into that pile, sift through a few emails and that's job done for the day. F their business.
I recently had a conversation with a senior figure of a company in which we were supposed to be discussing a topic of their business. Totally clueless. Zero bearing on the details. Let the lower decks fill in the blanks for them. Talk about pie in the sky. I am seeing this as a norm across companies and industries.

Evak

I switched from Talk Talk to sky landline and broadband
I wish I never read about the cheap deal they had in January
I might be saving a few pounds a month but simply not worth it
I don't know if this has something to do with my post code
But a word of warning before you switch to a cheaper deal double check
I'm 3 months with them signal is poor
Managing your account online mediocre
It's going to be a long 9 months. ...

Risco

Just got a deal with Sky -

76mb Fibre + evening and weekend calls - £30 per month. ( 18 months )

Also managed to renegotiate my TV package ( top package with sports and movies ) at the same time.

So all in I am paying £92.40 a month for top Sky Q and 76mb fibre. Very happy with this.

makara

Risco wrote: »

Just got a deal with Sky -

76mb Fibre + evening and weekend calls - £30 per month. ( 18 months )

Also managed to renegotiate my TV package ( top package with sports and movies ) at the same time.

So all in I am paying £92.40 a month for top Sky Q and 76mb fibre. Very happy with this.

Well done - 76 MB makes me with envy :rotfl: