Stellina
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Reged: 27/03/2006
Posts: 101
Loc: Trondheim, Norway
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How do you UK residents choose a broadband and telephone provider? I pay for Tiscali broadband for my folks in the UK who also have a BT land line. I'm trying to find a good deal for them, possibly combining the two. I'm astonished to find a search function for the BT charges page! It's impossible to decipher individual providers let alone make any comparison. Anyone give me some advice? (maybe this should be posted in The Lounge?)
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BrendanS
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Reged: 11/06/2002
Posts: 33972
Loc: Me: Wilts. Boat: Lymington
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I'm on Plusnet as a broadband provider, who are excellent. They also do a landline package - you no longer have to pay line rental to BT, for £10 a month which included free evening and weekend calls.
http://portal.plus.net/residential/phonecalls/home/
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See http://www.frappr.com/ybw to add yourself to the forum map
and as everyone else is doing it
www.plaintalkconsulting.co.uk
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steve_clayton
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Reged: 22/05/2003
Posts: 2392
Loc: king; I did RAF training there
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Google broadband and a selection of comparison sites will pop up; here's a good one
http://www.moneysupermarket.com/broadband/?Source=MSSETS
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MoodySabre
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Reged: 24/10/2006
Posts: 3096
Loc: Bradwell and Leigh-on-Sea
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I use talktalk. £20 a month for line rental, unlimited calls to landlines, overseas calls to 30 countries and broadband. Calls to mobiles and 0800 numbers are extra. Hard to beat.
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martin1001
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Reged: 08/11/2006
Posts: 396
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pay basic BT line rental 10.50 a month
pay 20 a month to Tiscali for Broadband and free phone calls 24x7 to 01 and 02 numbers.
Pay Tiscali extra for calls to 07 and 08 numbers
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Hardley
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Reged: 07/01/2003
Posts: 230
Loc: Norfolk Broads
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Agree, Plus Net, now owned by BT, very good company with various packages,
I have Broadband (unlimited)Line rentel, free any time calls to 01/02 numbers and 300 minutes a month to 30 overseas countries for £29.99 a month.
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Grumpy_0_G
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Reged: 09/01/2005
Posts: 386
Loc: South Coast
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Switched to the same package as MoodySabre a few months from Pipex and very pleased with TalkTalk so far. 40GB download limit which is high enough for almost anyone unless they're downloading movies all the time. Call quality is fine and the switch from Pipex was quick and painless.
Thinkbroadband is an excellent guide to Broadband providers and there's a good article about broadband/landline bundles on Motley Fool here
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Edited by Grumpy_0_G (17/05/2008 03:22)
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Norman_E
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Reged: 15/03/2005
Posts: 4695
Loc: East Sussex (near Kent border)
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I switched to Orange on the package where you get Broadband and the phone line for £24 a month (saving the BT line rental) It looked a good deal at the time but they have put up the telephone call set up charge twice in the last few months from 3 pence, then to 5 pence and now 6 pence per call. So if you use the phone a lot it works out far too expensive, and I am locked in for 18 months. Fortunately they provide a second phone line which is free to call UK land lines and some overseas countries, and works like Skype, but given the way they have ramped up charges I would not recommend Orange. Another fault is that the Orange Livebox they supply is a pig to connect wirelessly with my laptop, so much so that I have given up trying, and hard wire it when I need to connect it.
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For we are the people of England, that never has spoken yet.
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domndave
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Reged: 17/12/2007
Posts: 7
Loc: England
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Ive been with Plusnet almost 5 years, good packages and incredible service (no chimps or wot ever on the help desk). Also a good webspace.
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Me in Durham, IT in Medway. Leisure 22
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Stellina
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Reged: 27/03/2006
Posts: 101
Loc: Trondheim, Norway
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Thanks; that was just what I wanted. I agree with the article on the "truly bewildering" range of broadband deals...
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"Borders? I have never seen one, but I have heard they exist in the minds of some people."
Thor Heyerdahl
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