from Talktalk to BT ?

On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:02:11 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Benham
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:19:05 +0000, River Tarnell wrote:
>
>> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >, Andy
>> Burns <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>Is anyone doing 1 month contract on FTTC yet?
>>
>> I believe that OpenReach only offer 12-month contracts on FTTC at the
>> moment, so ISPs can't offer anything less than that (unless they wanted
>> to eat the fees if the customer leaves early)
>
>Some of the ISPs I've looked at for FTTC say things like:
>
>"""The 12 month contract is tied to your current installation address. If
>you move address before the 12 month contract is up, the contract will
>still apply and cannot be transferred to a new address. Therefore, you
>will still be liable for the remainder of the contract. Please bear this
>in mind if you are planning on moving address in the next 12 months."""
>
>So I guess OpenReach have high exit fees with FTTC.

I've just enetered into a 12 month contyract with BT for a telephone &
fttc broadband. It's a 40M download and 10M up.

There are no upfront charges (other tnan the £120 I've paid for a
years line rental and six quid to have something delivered)

The BB cost for the 1st 3 months is 20 quid and 25 quid from then on.

I can also move the service (at no charge ISTR) in about 4 months to
my new property (same exchange area, adjacent cabinets)

Time will tell if I've dropped a major biollock or not - the first
test will be if BT turn up as promised on 17th Jan to do the "Install"
--
Cheers

Peter

(Reply to address is a spam trap - pse reply to the group)

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:23:24 +0000
Peter <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:02:11 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Benham
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:19:05 +0000, River Tarnell wrote:
> >
> >> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
> >> Andy Burns <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >>>Is anyone doing 1 month contract on FTTC yet?
> >>
> >> I believe that OpenReach only offer 12-month contracts on FTTC at
> >> the moment, so ISPs can't offer anything less than that (unless
> >> they wanted to eat the fees if the customer leaves early)
> >
> >Some of the ISPs I've looked at for FTTC say things like:
> >
> >"""The 12 month contract is tied to your current installation
> >address. If you move address before the 12 month contract is up, the
> >contract will still apply and cannot be transferred to a new
> >address. Therefore, you will still be liable for the remainder of
> >the contract. Please bear this in mind if you are planning on moving
> >address in the next 12 months."""
> >
> >So I guess OpenReach have high exit fees with FTTC.
>
> I've just enetered into a 12 month contyract with BT for a telephone &
> fttc broadband. It's a 40M download and 10M up.
>
> There are no upfront charges (other tnan the £120 I've paid for a
> years line rental and six quid to have something delivered)
>
> The BB cost for the 1st 3 months is 20 quid and 25 quid from then on.
>
> I can also move the service (at no charge ISTR) in about 4 months to
> my new property (same exchange area, adjacent cabinets)
>
> Time will tell if I've dropped a major biollock or not - the first
> test will be if BT turn up as promised on 17th Jan to do the "Install"

Around here, the average install time for BT Broadband (not fttc,
we're out in the sticks) seems to be about a fortnight after the
promised date. Good Luck.
I went with Zen, and I had service three days early.
--
Davey.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
>
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:02:11 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Benham
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:19:05 +0000, River Tarnell wrote:
> >
> >> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >, Andy
> >> Burns <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >>>Is anyone doing 1 month contract on FTTC yet?
> >>
> >> I believe that OpenReach only offer 12-month contracts on FTTC at the
> >> moment, so ISPs can't offer anything less than that (unless they wanted
> >> to eat the fees if the customer leaves early)
> >
> >Some of the ISPs I've looked at for FTTC say things like:
> >
> >"""The 12 month contract is tied to your current installation address. If
> >you move address before the 12 month contract is up, the contract will
> >still apply and cannot be transferred to a new address. Therefore, you
> >will still be liable for the remainder of the contract. Please bear this
> >in mind if you are planning on moving address in the next 12 months."""
> >
> >So I guess OpenReach have high exit fees with FTTC.
>
> I've just enetered into a 12 month contyract with BT for a telephone &
> fttc broadband. It's a 40M download and 10M up.
>
> There are no upfront charges (other tnan the £120 I've paid for a
> years line rental and six quid to have something delivered)
>
> The BB cost for the 1st 3 months is 20 quid and 25 quid from then on.
>
> I can also move the service (at no charge ISTR) in about 4 months to
> my new property (same exchange area, adjacent cabinets)
>
> Time will tell if I've dropped a major biollock or not - the first
> test will be if BT turn up as promised on 17th Jan to do the "Install"

No reason to think they won't. I ordered Infinity on 20th December and
was given an appointment between 8am and 1pm on Tuesday 3rd January. The
guy turned up at about 10.45am and the job was finished by about 12.15.

Estimated figures were 33.6Mbps down and 10Mbps up - actual figures for
the last two days have been 37.43Mbps down and 8.26Mbps up with very
slight variations. I'm one very happy bunny!! :-)