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How to time switching providers?
Tinkywinks108
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Broadband providers will give only a rough estimate of how long it takes.
If you are on a contract with your current provider, then if you switch to early you may incur exit fees. Or you might already have a better deal than your new provider but which is due to expire, so you'd want to keep paying your current provider until the very end of the contract.
if you switch too late then you could be paying the higher cost of broadband because you're contract has ended and you've been switched to a higher tariff.
For example, my TalkTalk contract was due to end, after which time my monthly charge would go from £17 to £27. I've switched to Plusnet. Because I've done this a little late and my contract has already ended, I'll be paying the higher rate of £27pm (or whatever that works out daily) until I switch over to Plusnet.
If you are on a contract with your current provider, then if you switch to early you may incur exit fees. Or you might already have a better deal than your new provider but which is due to expire, so you'd want to keep paying your current provider until the very end of the contract.
if you switch too late then you could be paying the higher cost of broadband because you're contract has ended and you've been switched to a higher tariff.
For example, my TalkTalk contract was due to end, after which time my monthly charge would go from £17 to £27. I've switched to Plusnet. Because I've done this a little late and my contract has already ended, I'll be paying the higher rate of £27pm (or whatever that works out daily) until I switch over to Plusnet.
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