Broadband Costs & Deals
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My contract with EE for fibre 150 finishes in 2 weeks, I’m paying £35.99 monthly. On checking I see that there’s some much better deals out there including £20.05 for the equivalent product with Sky. On the EE website I can renew for £29.99 so I phoned to see if they’d match Sky, the best they could offer was £23.99.
I understand that that’s the way business is conducted these days but it seems very odd. I didn’t particularly want the hassle of changing but that’s probably what I’ll do. Or maybe I’ll call b ack in a day or and accept the EE offer because I can’t be a****d to change the router etc.
Anyone here had similar experiences?
I understand that that’s the way business is conducted these days but it seems very odd. I didn’t particularly want the hassle of changing but that’s probably what I’ll do. Or maybe I’ll call b ack in a day or and accept the EE offer because I can’t be a****d to change the router etc.
Anyone here had similar experiences?
Rafka said:
My contract with EE for fibre 150 finishes in 2 weeks, I m paying £35.99 monthly. On checking I see that there s some much better deals out there including £20.05 for the equivalent product with Sky. On the EE website I can renew for £29.99 so I phoned to see if they d match Sky, the best they could offer was £23.99.
I understand that that s the way business is conducted these days but it seems very odd. I didn t particularly want the hassle of changing but that s probably what I ll do. Or maybe I ll call b ack in a day or and accept the EE offer because I can t be a****d to change the router etc.
Anyone here had similar experiences?
I think EE being £4/month more expensive than Sky, which is still £12 cheaper than what you're paying now, is a pretty good saving for zero hassle. Unless you need £4/month to pay for something else of course.I understand that that s the way business is conducted these days but it seems very odd. I didn t particularly want the hassle of changing but that s probably what I ll do. Or maybe I ll call b ack in a day or and accept the EE offer because I can t be a****d to change the router etc.
Anyone here had similar experiences?
xx99xx said:
I think EE being £4/month more expensive than Sky, which is still £12 cheaper than what you're paying now, is a pretty good saving for zero hassle. Unless you need £4/month to pay for something else of course.
You re right, it s not a lot of money. Just annoying and I’m as tight as a duck’s rear end.Rafka said:
xx99xx said:
I think EE being £4/month more expensive than Sky, which is still £12 cheaper than what you're paying now, is a pretty good saving for zero hassle. Unless you need £4/month to pay for something else of course.
You re right, it s not a lot of money. Just annoying and I m as tight as a duck s rear end.
) nearly bit the bullet yesterday but then realised their Black Friday deals will be announced in about two weeks so I'm holding out till then. I'd suggest you do the same? Do you also have a TV subscription?dickymint said:
Rafka said:
xx99xx said:
I think EE being £4/month more expensive than Sky, which is still £12 cheaper than what you're paying now, is a pretty good saving for zero hassle. Unless you need £4/month to pay for something else of course.
You re right, it s not a lot of money. Just annoying and I m as tight as a duck s rear end.) nearly bit the bullet yesterday but then realised their Black Friday deals will be announced in about two weeks so I'm holding out till then. I'd suggest you do the same? Do you also have a TV subscription?Not the same, but I don't have 'fast' bb where i am.
Was paying £30/m with Vodafone and instead I bought a 5g router and a prepayed SIMO....
£100 for the router (Amazon, refurb) and the SIM is 1,000Gb/m till Jul 28 (22 months) for £58.
Now getting some proper speeds ... but not sure if 1,000Gb is enough per month!
Was paying £30/m with Vodafone and instead I bought a 5g router and a prepayed SIMO....
£100 for the router (Amazon, refurb) and the SIM is 1,000Gb/m till Jul 28 (22 months) for £58.
Now getting some proper speeds ... but not sure if 1,000Gb is enough per month!
smifffymoto2 said:
I m with Airband and I have just gone out of contract and the buggers are charging £70/month.
Is broadband that much worse than fibre?.
Airband operate a different system than the other providers so a simple change is not possible.
Is 5g reliable?
Very much so - so long as your local phone mast is also reliable. I'm on 5G with Three UK.Is broadband that much worse than fibre?.
Airband operate a different system than the other providers so a simple change is not possible.
Is 5g reliable?
Last house I got up to 900Mb / 80mb. The local mast was in a trading estate, so new and fast. It dropped down to 4g overnight (power saving) which often caused my Xytel (Three branded) router to fail to renegotiate 5g , so all I did was put it on a timer switch to reboot at 5am every day. This was partly down to using a high gain Yagi exterfnal antenna to connect with the mast which was 1.1 miles away.
I moved last year and I noiw get 160/70Mb - mast is only the other side of an adjacent field, but I've hit the mast's microwave uplink capacity. However, I now never have to reboot the router, ever. Super reliable.
FYI - I don't notice the speed difference, and I'm a heavy user. The only real difference is downloading an 50Gb movie torrent now takes around 1 hour, whereas before it would do it whilst I made a coffee. Hardly an inconvenience. :-) Ping isn't as good as fibre/copper, but I still online game - just servers in America put me at quite a handicap. (30ms ping to google.co.uk - which is not wonderful)
I pay £20 a month on a business tarriff. Unlimited data, and that includes an extra sim for voice calls with 3Gb of data/month. Handy as a second sim when Voda doesn't cut it, on my phone.
POIDH said:
A warning with "cheap" Sky. They throttle speeds far more than any other supplier I've used. And they insist on their router and any repeaters - unless you pay more per month.
And thier customer service is woeful.
There's better options IMO.
Not had an issue with them. In fact they paid us £900 for a late installation which was Openreachs fault.And thier customer service is woeful.
There's better options IMO.
Their router is fine and we use a mesh system so no issues with reach. £25pm for FF150
Griffith4ever said:
smifffymoto2 said:
I m with Airband and I have just gone out of contract and the buggers are charging £70/month.
Is broadband that much worse than fibre?.
Airband operate a different system than the other providers so a simple change is not possible.
Is 5g reliable?
Very much so - so long as your local phone mast is also reliable. I'm on 5G with Three UK.Is broadband that much worse than fibre?.
Airband operate a different system than the other providers so a simple change is not possible.
Is 5g reliable?
Last house I got up to 900Mb / 80mb. The local mast was in a trading estate, so new and fast. It dropped down to 4g overnight (power saving) which often caused my Xytel (Three branded) router to fail to renegotiate 5g , so all I did was put it on a timer switch to reboot at 5am every day. This was partly down to using a high gain Yagi exterfnal antenna to connect with the mast which was 1.1 miles away.
I moved last year and I noiw get 160/70Mb - mast is only the other side of an adjacent field, but I've hit the mast's microwave uplink capacity. However, I now never have to reboot the router, ever. Super reliable.
FYI - I don't notice the speed difference, and I'm a heavy user. The only real difference is downloading an 50Gb movie torrent now takes around 1 hour, whereas before it would do it whilst I made a coffee. Hardly an inconvenience. :-) Ping isn't as good as fibre/copper, but I still online game - just servers in America put me at quite a handicap. (30ms ping to google.co.uk - which is not wonderful)
I pay £20 a month on a business tarriff. Unlimited data, and that includes an extra sim for voice calls with 3Gb of data/month. Handy as a second sim when Voda doesn't cut it, on my phone.
I don't game so I don't have to worry about the Ping.
For me it has been a considerable difference to the circa 44/8 that I was getting - enough to notice when updating apps / streaming shows.
Like I said, the concern is if my prepaid 5g card is enough ....
Earlier this year we went from EE (now BT) paying stupid money at £35.99 a month to virgin now paying £17.99 a month , for broadband only , supposedly a slower speed however perfect for streaming Netflix/Youtube on tv / general downloads.
I found the deal on USwitch , Virgin did all the hassle work , organised the swap over aswell as an install which took all of a few hours running a line over the street and then into the house.
Massive saving and well happy right now !
I found the deal on USwitch , Virgin did all the hassle work , organised the swap over aswell as an install which took all of a few hours running a line over the street and then into the house.
Massive saving and well happy right now !
If you go onto the comparison sites you can often get a deal with a reward card or something thrown in which brings down the average cost.
The big providers often do offers as well, 25% off or whatever, but again these can sometimes only be found via 3rd party websites. Unlike insurance they are also allowed to offer cheaper deals for new customers, so it might be worth moving to someone else and then going back at the next contract renewal.
Also, try and speak to the retentions department when discussing new contracts. Virgin offered NOTHING, and actually offered worse deals than I could get on the phone until I got to retentions who would then do a 40% discount off the advertised contract price.
The only networks for most people are Openreach and Virgin, so whoever you go with who isn't Virgin will offer the same speeds, same reliability, etc. It really comes down to price and customer service.
The big providers often do offers as well, 25% off or whatever, but again these can sometimes only be found via 3rd party websites. Unlike insurance they are also allowed to offer cheaper deals for new customers, so it might be worth moving to someone else and then going back at the next contract renewal.
Also, try and speak to the retentions department when discussing new contracts. Virgin offered NOTHING, and actually offered worse deals than I could get on the phone until I got to retentions who would then do a 40% discount off the advertised contract price.
The only networks for most people are Openreach and Virgin, so whoever you go with who isn't Virgin will offer the same speeds, same reliability, etc. It really comes down to price and customer service.
I just moved to Plusnet. Was fairly simple - as they are essentially the same company. BT were charging £42 a month (was £37) at end of contract.
Now on £26.99 with increase with inflation in April. Plus a £160 pre paid card as "cash back". That arrived the other day. 2 year contract.
Oh, and with BT I was on 500mb/s now on 1000mb/s with Plusnet (get about 800-900).
Been with BT since 2016. They were not able to match.
Oh well.
Now on £26.99 with increase with inflation in April. Plus a £160 pre paid card as "cash back". That arrived the other day. 2 year contract.
Oh, and with BT I was on 500mb/s now on 1000mb/s with Plusnet (get about 800-900).
Been with BT since 2016. They were not able to match.
Oh well.
Does anyone know how these crappy companies managed to negotiate yearly price rises after a contract ends?
It doesn't hapoen with every service, so I presume they pressured Ofcon or paid them to make it law, masquerading as "improvements and investment" just like water companies, no doubt most of it goes yo shareholders. How dd tgey manage to make it increase yearly?
My thing here is treat it like car insurance, shop around every time there is a rise, they rely on your acceptance and laziness, and Oh it's only a fiver a month more. Ring them, put the hest on and you willakways get a better deal, every time.
I know it's Ballachulish, but why would you freely give these people more money than they deserve, for a service they provide,but have zero care for once installed, that they then tax you on yearly for jo reason or no benefit.
It doesn't hapoen with every service, so I presume they pressured Ofcon or paid them to make it law, masquerading as "improvements and investment" just like water companies, no doubt most of it goes yo shareholders. How dd tgey manage to make it increase yearly?
My thing here is treat it like car insurance, shop around every time there is a rise, they rely on your acceptance and laziness, and Oh it's only a fiver a month more. Ring them, put the hest on and you willakways get a better deal, every time.
I know it's Ballachulish, but why would you freely give these people more money than they deserve, for a service they provide,but have zero care for once installed, that they then tax you on yearly for jo reason or no benefit.
My standard procedure is to go via topcashback. It has its own search and includes all the various offers/cashback.
I ended up with Sky. There 1gb service (max my fttp does) was £28 a month. then received a £140 pre-paid debit card from sky and £106 cashback from topcashback. Brings it down to £17.75 a month.
Hopefully they try a mid-contract price raise so I can leave and repeat the process elsewhere. Sky has been fine and no difference to vodafone but ive not had reason to contact either customer service, Skys router is crap though but planning to ditch it in favour of ubiquiti stuff anyway.
I ended up with Sky. There 1gb service (max my fttp does) was £28 a month. then received a £140 pre-paid debit card from sky and £106 cashback from topcashback. Brings it down to £17.75 a month.
Hopefully they try a mid-contract price raise so I can leave and repeat the process elsewhere. Sky has been fine and no difference to vodafone but ive not had reason to contact either customer service, Skys router is crap though but planning to ditch it in favour of ubiquiti stuff anyway.
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