Should I switch to BT broadband?

I have an NTL telephone line and 128kbps broadband and
was thinking of upgrading to 512 (600) but ...

I have received a "come back" leaflet from BT with an offer
of a free modem, free connection to BT Broadband Basic
-at 512kbps for £19.99/month. I have to get a standard PSTN
line which I was told is £10.50/months, so total 30.49/month
I am assuming (not sure about that) that BT would reconnect
for free my phone line and would transfer my number
from NTL

NTL broadband at 600kbps is £24.99 and tel. line is £9.50/month
which makes total of 34.99/month. for very marginally faster
broadband connection.

Is there a catch? Why should I not come back to BT
which I left some years back? I do not subscribe to cable TV.

Roman

"r_mervart" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is there a catch? Why should I not come back to BT
> which I left some years back? I do not subscribe to cable TV.

There is no catch as such and you can go back to BT - the only thing I would
probably do, is sign up to a different ISP and not BT Broadband - as the
£19.99/month product has a 1gb/month download limit.

Other ISP's (Metronet/Pipex/Plusnet/Bulldog and others) are cheaper/better
value then BT Broadband's offering - depending on your own requirements -
though you may prefer BT Broadband' s offer of free equipment/connection.

BT normally reconnect you and port your number over for free.

Overall, it can still be cheaper for you, than using NTL.

Regards
Sunil

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:08:27 GMT, "r_mervart"
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>Is there a catch? Why should I not come back to BT
>which I left some years back? I do not subscribe to cable TV.
Well one thing to consider is the fact that Bloody Twats have ripped
off all their standard line rental customers by forcing them onto
option 1 from the first of this month and also ripped them off again
by taking away the couple of quid of free calls every month on top
which is a three pound line rental increase at a stroke .
Now what is there to say that they will not pull another lowdown trick
like this in the future ! the choice is yours .
Grant.

What are you going to do with all that 1 GB/Month ?

> sign up to a different ISP and not BT Broadband - as the
> £19.99/month product has a 1gb/month download limit

Holy crap, I think i`ve managed that in a day before now O:-}

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>> sign up to a different ISP and not BT Broadband - as the
>> £19.99/month product has a 1gb/month download limit
>
> Holy crap, I think i`ve managed that in a day before now O:-}
>

Without doing binary newsgroups I can do that in a day easily.

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"Duncan Hill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Colin Wilson uttered in <(E-Mail Removed)> :
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> >> sign up to a different ISP and not BT Broadband - as the
> >> £19.99/month product has a 1gb/month download limit
> >
> > Holy crap, I think i`ve managed that in a day before now O:-}
> >
>
> Without doing binary newsgroups I can do that in a day easily.


It looked dubious to me that BT would offer a better overall value.
I shall save myself hassle of changing
Thanks all for your responses

Roman

Will be joining you next year, I think you made right choice.

Another satisfied customer.


"r_mervart" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Duncan Hill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:40f3a5a4$0$7807$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Colin Wilson uttered in
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> >
> > >> sign up to a different ISP and not BT Broadband - as the
> > >> £19.99/month product has a 1gb/month download limit
> > >
> > > Holy crap, I think i`ve managed that in a day before now O:-}
> > >
> >
> > Without doing binary newsgroups I can do that in a day easily.
>
>
> It looked dubious to me that BT would offer a better overall value.
> I shall save myself hassle of changing
> Thanks all for your responses
>
> Roman
>
>

"john" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What are you going to do with all that 1 GB/Month ?

Lol who would sign up for 1Gb a month transfer package, remember adsl has a
faster upload then NTL's 512k offering of 128k up 512k down, you would need
to go for the 1mb package to get the 256k up.

I can download 1Gb in about 2hours on my connection, so think before you
buy, do you just surf webpages, or so you download the odd game, music etc?

I did not mean I would go for a capped service, I meant I would be leaving
BTyahoo because of the future cap to a non capped service.


"Ronny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "john" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > What are you going to do with all that 1 GB/Month ?
>
> Lol who would sign up for 1Gb a month transfer package, remember adsl has
a
> faster upload then NTL's 512k offering of 128k up 512k down, you would
need
> to go for the 1mb package to get the 256k up.
>
> I can download 1Gb in about 2hours on my connection, so think before you
> buy, do you just surf webpages, or so you download the odd game, music
etc?
>
>