Is it sensible/worth renewing BB contract with BT early?

johnbhoy70

Stompa said:

I had a similar early renewal offer (Fibre 1 with free Anytime calls for £20.24) from BT around 18 months ago, when I still had 3 months to run on my existing contract. I took up the offer, and was able to specify the 'activation date' for the new contract, which I set to the existing contract expiry date. It was a very straightforward process.

That sounds like some deal to be honest!! Fibre, line and anytime calls for just over £20. I'm around £25.50 for Fibre, line and weekend calls only after lastest price increases. Wonder if they'll contact me soon with something even though my broadband and TV aren't done till 29th and 30th November respectively. What i have noticed for the last month or so is that when i sign in i get a note saying 'Don't forget your broadband discount is ending' and to renew now. However, when you click that prices are way too steep for me. I'll be dropping the TV side of things regardless by the way. Resent paying over £15 fro Sport when it used to free. Especially when i met a guy at work and well you know!!

Stompa

johnbhoy70 said:

Stompa said:

I had a similar early renewal offer (Fibre 1 with free Anytime calls for £20.24) from BT around 18 months ago, when I still had 3 months to run on my existing contract. I took up the offer, and was able to specify the 'activation date' for the new contract, which I set to the existing contract expiry date. It was a very straightforward process.

That sounds like some deal to be honest!! Fibre, line and anytime calls for just over £20. I'm around £25.50 for Fibre, line and weekend calls only after lastest price increases. Wonder if they'll contact me soon with something even though my broadband and TV aren't done till 29th and 30th November respectively. What i have noticed for the last month or so is that when i sign in i get a note saying 'Don't forget your broadband discount is ending' and to renew now. However, when you click that prices are way too steep for me. I'll be dropping the TV side of things regardless by the way. Resent paying over £15 fro Sport when it used to free. Especially when i met a guy at work and well you know!!

Well that was the price 18 months ago, with CPI increases it's now £23.11 unfortunately.

Stompa

jem16 said:

Stompa said:

jem16 said:

Stompa said:

I had a similar early renewal offer (Fibre 1 with free Anytime calls for £20.24) from BT around 18 months ago, when I still had 3 months to run on my existing contract. I took up the offer, and was able to specify the 'activation date' for the new contract, which I set to the existing contract expiry date. It was a very straightforward process.

That was an excellent offer if it included free Anytime calls.

Thanks for the heads up on being able to specify the activation date. Was that done by just accepting the offer online?

Yes. When I accepted online I was expecting the new contract to start from the acceptance date. But during the process it asked for an activation date, so I entered my current contract expiry date, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it worked.

Bear in mind that this was around 18 months ago, but hopefully it still works the same way.

Do post back if it works (or not) for you. It would be useful to know as I must be due another such offer in the next few months.

Thanks. I've just gone through it now. It still allows you to choose an activation date up to 3 months in advance. Couldn't quite get to 1st December but I've chosen 7th October.

Ah OK, thanks for that. IIRC I took quite a long time to respond to their offer. It probably arrived around 5 months before my expiry date, and I didn't respond for a couple of months, so only needed my activation date to be 3 months in advance.

I may try the same again should a similar offer appear this time, though I guess there's then the risk that the offer will be withdrawn before you act on it.

hareng

Stompa said:

 I guess there's then the risk that the offer will be withdrawn before you act on it.

Known it happen if didnt act on it straight away. Come back 2 hours later, offer off the table.

Quite a few doing FTTC1 sub £25/m, been on FTTC2 11 years they just lift the cap as know i can only get 55 meg even though less than 270 yards from the cab. May be changing in Feb when contract expires, theyre putting in FTTP round here next month starting at £32/m same price as FTTC2.

Stompa

hareng said:

Stompa said:

 I guess there's then the risk that the offer will be withdrawn before you act on it.

Known it happen if didnt act on it straight away. Come back 2 hours later, offer off the table.

Quite a few doing FTTC1 sub £25/m, been on FTTC2 11 years they just lift the cap as know i can only get 55 meg even though less than 270 yards from the cab. May be changing in Feb when contract expires, theyre putting in FTTP round here next month starting at £32/m same price as FTTC2.

£32/m seems pretty expensive. We had FTTP put in here a couple of months ago, and the cheapest deal (Vodafone 41Mbps/21Mbps) is £22/m.

LeesArt

jem16 said:

LeesArt said:

What I would watch out for is any fake "inflation" rises, I call them fake because the cost of delivering Broadband is not going to go up by that amount.

Forecast for autumn CPI is around 12% but may be as high as 15%, companies are offering 24 month contracts with CPI+3.9% added at end of march each year.

At same time I hear noises about competition for ADSL because of cost of living crisis.

I would wait and see, BT are not exactly at the cheap end of the market.

£22.99pm for BB is one of the cheapest around at the moment. Even Plusnet is at £25.99pm for a similar speed.

Yes I can't say I'm happy with the automatic CPI+3.9% but they all seem to be doing that now.

The offers I see on MSE seem to average under £15 a month for Fibre with £1 more for 65mb if nothing else these can be used to haggle down the price with the retention dept.