Thoughts on BT offers?

johnbhoy70

Would appreciate any thoughts people have on following.

Currently with BT on a FTTC package of 17-19 Mbps with a guarantee of 15. Also have Digital Voice with them and free weekend calls. I also have Halo 1. Pay £25.43 per month for this at the moment. Ends on 30th November.

FTTP cable laid a few months ago so we now have other options. They sent me an email a couple of weeks back with a 'personalised offer'. It's for Full Fibre 100 Halo 3 and 700 anytime minutes for £35.43 per month. 24 month contract of course.

I've also spoke to them on the phone and they've offered Full Fibre 100 on it's own for £29.99

Finally they also have their BF offer for Full Fibre 100 on just now at half price for 6 months then full price for the remaining 18 but quick maths and that works out more expensive. 

Probably don't need that speed but we do need more than what we're currently on. I do know that much. Bit of background.....most of the time there's only 3 of us in the house. No gamers as such. However, i've noticed if i watch BT Sport on the laptop it can seriously buffer sometimes if wife and daughter are online or even if they're just watching main  TV . If daughter comes home from Uni then house goes to 4 bodies and doesn't help matters. It's amazing when you count devices where bandwidth can go. 

My thoughts are that the £29.99 for Full Fibre 100 only is the best deal. We never use the landline calling out and it's only one person that dials it regularly. Still loathed to get rid of it for some reason though. However, i don't think it's worth nearly an extra £5.50 a month to keep it and get 700 minutes. I also personally think the Halo 3 is a gimmick and not worth any money other than price protection when out of contract. 

I would also be future proofing the service to the house by getting FTTP.

Any thoughts would be great to see if i'm missing something obvious.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Get rid of the 700 minutes to save yourself the money if you don't use them. Then just unplug your landline but it's always there in an emergency.  

johnbhoy70

Thanks for your reply. I was tempted by the Vodafone 200 offer recently which would have worked out at circa £24 per month i think it was if Quidco and their voucher had paid out. However, i just decided to stick with BT for their FTTP Full Fibre 100 package at £29.99. As i said above this is cheaper than their BF offer. I've kept the the Digital Voice Landline as PAYG and was sure guy said when i ordered that would be free and was a bit miffed they added on £2 per month for that. So £31.99 in total. Not great but i don't think it's too bad either. They would not budge lower than £29.99 for Full Fibre 100 after a couple of attempts.

The main reason for not going for Vodafone was i didn't want anything going wrong with the order (for example router help up,etc) and me having to contact them and then that invalidating the voucher and/or Quidco. At least this way if it goes wrong before it's fitted i can get on BT and rant away.