I pay £22 a month to Talk Talk for Fibre Optic broadband, this includes unlimited calls to Talk Talk telephones. If l make phone calls to any other provider l have to pay twenty something a minute.
The downside is, l have had to tape all my landline handsets to stop me making calls! I just seem to pick up the handset automatically to make a call.
I must remember to use the free calls on my mobile phone!
Recently, I have received a letter from Talk Talk to say, they will be upgrading my home to full fibre for free.
I have basic SkyQ but have access to Netflix and NowTV through two of my daughters.
Anyway, have now got to wait 7 hours before my next post, which means I’ll have to use my internet for other things for a while. Not a complaint…quite useful reminder that I’ve probably being overdoing it on here over the last 24 hours.
I forgot to add. When l changed to Talk Talk l was still in contract with BT for my landline.
Talk Talk paid for me to cancel my BT contract. The cancellation fee was about £67+
We pay £19 a month these days. The Sky package just kept going up n up, till Himself said ENOUGH. I really do miss the Channel Alibi though, all the stuff I love is on there and hardly any of it on Freeview.
Plusnet , I’ve been with them a long time , I’m unsure if I’m paying too much but I have wi fi , broadband , and home phone , calls up to 1 hr included. I’m tied in for another 18 months . £31.28 a,month . My sister moaned while she was with me saying my broadband and WiFi were slow on her posh I phone , but it suits me and I don’t have any problems with slow
It’s time to review the situation. I’m paying about £130/quarter for BB and a phoneline I never use, thu BT. We’ve now got fibre optic in our street, a major operation by a company called G Network, I don’t yet know who the providers will be.
I am still struggling with this .
We have had to call BT everyday and still can’t get it right first they renew our contract for £82 per month . Then I cancelled that which they said would take 24 hours and then they would tell me new deals . It took three days ! Right now they have offered me their lowest deal which is £62 a month I shall cancel this tomorrow as they are offering £30 a month on the adverts ( I have only just seen them )
You see I find the whole thing frustrating because I don’t understand how to change the phone and the TV and all the boxes etc that go with it . Line rental and all this stuff . I which life was not so complicated .all I know is that they are ripping us off and have been doing so for years .
@Muddy, sorry if I’m asking the obvious, but why arent you using a price comparison site such as uswitch and then let your preferred nominated provider sort things out?
If its anything like Virgin, you’ll be eligible for the low price £30 introductory deal (or whatever is available at the time) offered by BT after you’ve left them for a year.
Because Dex I don’t understand how it all works .
Before I had BT I had freeview and somehow got talked into BT .
If I change providers do I have to change my land line in short I have no idea how it all works .
So if I changed to sky or some other people would they do all that ?
Yes I thought as much as tried on Uswitch and if you already have a provider and they want to keep you like Sky they give you offers. Have you tried the “options” team on 0800800030 (God knows what that means) but I was told last year when I thought I was “out of contract” a year ago to ring them so I will.
Depends on your choice of new provider, but it should be clear when you sign up or talk to them. But most providers will let you keep your landline and make the arrangements for you.
Thanks I will but I am so tired of all this hassle .
It’s a nightmare I seem to spend hours on the phone getting no where .
I have just had to have some stuff notarised and even the utility bill had to be done because it’s a print out as they are all paper free now so everything is a print out .
If I were a new BT customer, I could get £29.99 a month and a £150 virtual reward card, Not sure what if any deal I get if any. I know I need to have time and a plan before ringing been with BT for broadband since 2001 fingers crossed Will keep you updated
Not a complaint…quite useful reminder that I’ve probably being overdoing it on here over the last 24 hours.