Have broadband prices taken a dip in recent times?

JSmithy45AD

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81973280#Comment_81973280

That's purely because your discount will have run out though, my Sky 500Mb started yesterday at £25 with an undiscounted price of £49, with 2 April price rises the undiscounted price in April 2028 will be around £55 to £57. Except I won't be paying that because I'll either move or renegotiate.

dnpark38

@JSmithy45AD

Yes that's what I hate with 24 months contracts having to leave to get back to £20 or £25 per month.

DarthDaisy

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81972472#Comment_81972472

I agree with you, in my day when we were glad for the price of a cup of tea, without milk or sugar, or tea, we could get a Sky MSE deal at under £7 for the year.

TalkTalk was under £25 a year and gave you powerline adaptors, a router and a TV box.

Of course in those days we were happier even though we were poorer.

It is just such a rip off now, as with almost everything, the regulators are useless and we are all here to be ripped off.

The speed may be faster but actually the latency is dire, everything takes forever to load even with all apps set to not upgrade or even check to be upgraded.

My Uncle's household have been stitched up like kippers by BT.

Ironically people tell me to move to BT for social tariff, but I am minded to choose a different provider.

iniltous

Talk Talk was never £25 a year …provide a link to prove it , otherwise this just ridiculous nonsense, however , years ago when broadband and line rental were separate items on the bill , ISP’s like TT would itemise the bill misleadingly, with the split of charges something like £20 line rental (so it looked like big bad BT or Openreach were charging TT a fortune) and TT broadband £5 ( even this would be £60 not £25 a year) , but it it was always a big lie , line rental was shown as £20 when the price they paid Openreach for the line rental was actually £7, the extra £13 ‘profit’ TT made on the line rental ‘charge’ was used to artificially make the broadband price appear very cheap , £5 was never the actual price , it was marketing ploy nothing more .

DarthDaisy

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81978046#Comment_81978046

Gosh what a hostile response! You are basically calling me a liar.

As I inferred it was some time ago, I do not have a link and it would be absurd to expect someone to have a link of a deal from that far back.

The TT deal was all in £24 or £24.99 maybe, there was no line rental or call charges (for normal calls) and it was for a year, I even renewed it for several years at not far off that and they included some calls to foreign countries. I remember that I sold the TV Box on eBay for more than the annual contract.

It was a very competitive time, EE had great deals and as I said Sky had a mad deal for under £7, on that I was slightly out, in fact it was £5.35 for the YEAR.

I expect your apology in due course !

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5325484/mse-news-urgent-5-35-for-a-years-sky-line-rental-and-broadband

iniltous

Why would I apologise ? the link you provide is for a promotion not a regular price , what’s more as it’s Sky , you said it was Talk Talk , that Sky deal may even be something along the lines of take a full Sky TV package and get broadband for that price, you quote a Sky offer as ‘proof’ of your TT deal ……£25 a year is less than 50p a week for broadband, calls and TV , the fee they woukd have had to pay Openreach in 2015 would have been around £84 , do you see a problem there, not exactly a viable business proposition is it .

If you had pointed out this was some sort of promotion and not a regular price then perhaps I would not have commented at all , but your implication was this was a typical standard price and that’s just not true , the figures you quote wouldn’t even cover the providers costs …

as stated , when line rental and broadband were both paid to the same provider but shown as separate items on the bill , it was common place to load the majority of the costs onto the line rental side to artificially make the broadband seem cheap .

Openreach charged around £7 per month in 2015 for ‘line rental’ , what the provider displayed on the bill was upto them , and it served their interests to split a typical £25 bill into line rental side £20, broadband £5.