Moving House and Switching Provider - In contract

solomonkain

I'm moving back in with my parents (yay) and have 14 months left on my internet. Luckily my parents internet is ending this month so I've offered to have mine transferred over.

I currently pay £29 a month for full fibre with Vodafone, but when they gave me the details for switching the price increased to £34 a month and the speed more than halved as we would be on half fibre. Obviously not happy about this so I'm looking at switching provider to cover the exit fee of just over £300.

My dad wants to stick with bt for his emails addresses so I was thinking of switching back to them as I believe that in my name I would count as a new customer.

My questions are:

1. Is there something more obvious and easy that I'm missing for this?
2. Am I forgetting something which means this wont work?

mebu60

Once your dad ends his BT contract won't his BT email accounts drop to the free basic email service even if you go to BT?

flaneurs_lobster

Your father's free BT email service would be limited to web-access only, no access via clients or app, if he's no longer a broadband product holder.

Maybe look to get him off a broadband supplier's email service in any case, BT are becoming an outlier in still offering this service.

Wouldn't you need to have a new 24 month minimum term when you move address? Are you sure about that £300 ETC?

solomonkain

I double checked and you should be able to re-add a bt email address to any bt account going through the settings, I know I probably need to update it but he is pretty set in his ways and it's not a fight I'm ready to go through yet.

I believe, because it is a downgrade rather than an upgrade that it retains the original number of months, but I'll double check thank you!