Switching away from BT on superfast BB

Bimbly

When I moved house, my boyfriend said he'd sort out my broadband for me and got a "deal" through BT. I was shocked to discover he'd signed me up to a £45/month tariff. I stuck with it for a year and now the "deal" is over, I'm paying almost £60/month which is virtually the same cost as my gas and electricity combined!!!!

I said this is ridiculous and pointed out the possibilities of switching. He warned me against it as he said other providers aren't as good and I won't be able to keep the BT router I use: I will have to swap it for a rubbish one. He said it's worth paying for a reliable service. I'm like, yeah, but £60??!

I'm on BT Infinity at the moment and get suoerfast fibre at 60MB+ as, despite being in a village, BT installed one of their green boxes at the end of the road last year.

MSE comparison tool offers Vodaphone top at £25/m, then Sky, First Utility, EE, Post Office and Plusnet up to £33/m (I'm ignoring TalkTalk). (I could also try haggling with BT retentions team).

I wish I'd sorted the whole thing out myself now as I would be much more au fait with everything, but he's a network engineer and put wires in the wall and all that for me. I'm grateful, but forgot he doesn't have an MSE attitude to money.

If I switch, would I regret it?

JJ_Egan

Regret yes/no maybe who knows you can but try .
Do you need the more expensive super fast .

At £60 pm reads as you have more than just BB and line rental .
The other providers not as good is complete and utter rubbish .
Yes new ISP will not in most cases use a BT router .

AndyPK

haggle if you like haggling every year.


or just move. EE and plusnet are part of BT, so that is an option.
Router may even work!


Sky and NowTv are quite good


You don't need to pay more than £30!




These are a bit risky:
Vodaphone top at £25/m,
First Utility,
Post Office

Linton

BT offers 36Mb superfast broadband for £30. The £45/£60 deal is for a 67Mb line. I doubt most users would notice the difference. In my experience once they have put you onto the full tariff you ring them and they will give you another fixed period with one of their special offers.


I suggest you stick with BT.

JJ_Egan

BT Fibre 1 up to 52 meg .BT Fibre 2 up to 76meg was the old branding .
I pay circa £35 pm for Fibre 1 + Advanced Line Rental + BT Max TV inc BT Sport HD

mgfvvc

Just have a dig around the comparison sites. I'm paying Sky £25 pcm for 18 months 40Mb fibre. I'm also getting a £100 cash (pre-paid Mastercard) back.

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Jcw89 wrote: »

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dodell27

Bimbly wrote: »

he said other providers aren't as good and I won't be able to keep the BT router I use: I will have to swap it for a rubbish one. He said it's worth paying for a reliable service. I'm like, yeah, but £60??!

My Dad just moved from BT to EE and they sent him the exact same router he had with BT!

Inner_Zone

dodell27 wrote: »

My Dad just moved from BT to EE and they sent him the exact same router he had with BT!

As do Plusnet I believe. Being as BT own them all.

Kildare

We've just moved from Sky to Now TV and are paying £20 a month and had £50 John Lewis voucher through the MSE link. That's for the 'Fab Fibre' Level (up to 36MBps) and we stream 4k on Amazon/Netflix/Now TV and online gaming on PS4. No issues with it at all. Previously we had a deal on Sky for exactly the same level of fibre at £28.99 a month.

Now TV are advertising their higher level fibre at £35 a month - surely you must have been receiving free calls / some sort of TV bundle at £45 a month! Good luck switching to a new deal

JJ_Egan

Inner_Zone wrote: »

As do Plusnet I believe. Being as BT own them all.

Latest HH6/7 or older HH 5 i wonder .