[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23619032[/url]
[quote]A new bank-style switching service that should make it easier for some people to change phone and broadband providers is to be introduced in the UK.
Regulator Ofcom wants a system where a customer only needs to contact the new provider in order to switch. That firm will then deal with the whole process.
The new service should be in place by early 2015.
The current system requires a customer to contact their existing phone and broadband supplier to cancel their contract, as well as signing up to the new provider.[/quote]
This is good news, now if only they would set a limit on what companies can charge for line rental. Some of them hide that fee in the small print, tricking people. "Broadband from only 4 pounds a month for 6 months" when in reality it's 20 quid with the line rental, very mis-leading and all the ISPs do it.
I pay £60 a month for 60mb of internet and phone and TV, the line rental costs the most due to Fibre Optics.
Frankly, Virgin Media you can kiss my fucking arse.
Its funny because everyone complains about AOL and yet I never have any issues. What is the best ISP exactly for the UK?
It was pretty easy for me. I contacted Sky, signed up with them, they did the rest. They sent an engineer round (apparently I needed one for fibre) who took the old router away too.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;41762683]It was pretty easy for me. I contacted Sky, signed up with them, they did the rest. They sent an engineer round (apparently I needed one for fibre) who took the old router away too.[/QUOTE]
hhhehehe they stole your router
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;41762761]hhhehehe they stole your router[/QUOTE]
To be fair he said, "do you want to keep it? we just bin them"
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;41760841]I pay £60 a month for 60mb of internet and phone and TV, the line rental costs the most due to Fibre Optics.
Frankly, Virgin Media you can kiss my fucking arse.[/QUOTE]
You are possibly doing it wrong, that seems to be a bundle that has a stupid amount of TV channels and a phone package no one honestly needs.
[QUOTE=CaptainObvious1;41762658]Its funny because everyone complains about AOL and yet I never have any issues. What is the best ISP exactly for the UK?[/QUOTE]
They were good until a few years ago when they were sold to Opal and then to Talktalk
[QUOTE=Jsm;41762940]You are possibly doing it wrong, that seems to be a bundle that has a stupid amount of TV channels and a phone package no one honestly needs.[/QUOTE]
The only channels we have are freeview channels which cost nothing and Sky1/2 and the phone is next to nothing in cost.
I have no idea but they are all equally bad to old customers.
Damn, i feel lucky with 20$ a month and unlimited D/U at 10mbits
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;41760841]I pay £60 a month for 60mb of internet and phone and TV, the line rental costs the most due to Fibre Optics.
Frankly, Virgin Media you can kiss my fucking arse.[/QUOTE]
Frankly, all west european ISP's are a massive joke. You pay that much for almost nothing.
We have fiber optic cable, speeds around 5000 kb/s (yes kb/s not kbps) EU and 1000 kb/s international, sometimes even more. TV + phone + free mobile number + free 3G coverage with national fees of 2.42 eurocents per minute to any other national mobile number. (10 times less than what other companies offer)
And all this shit for only 15 euros or so. All bundled.
[editline]8th August 2013[/editline]
you can only have free mobile number and free 3g coverage while bundled. and you must have a property on romanian soil.
[editline]8th August 2013[/editline]
i use viber to call my friends or facebook to text them. i rarely use my actual mobile and i pay what i use, not a fixed fee. so at 2.42 eurocents per minute i use like 5 euros a month max. sms's and calls.
[QUOTE=blah2;41763575]Frankly, all west european ISP's are a massive joke. You pay that much for almost nothing.
We have fiber optic cable, speeds around [B]5000 kb/s (yes kb/s not kbps)[/B][/QUOTE]
Er, Kb/s and Kbps are just different ways of writing kilobits per second.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;41760841]I pay £60 a month for 60mb of internet and phone and TV, the line rental costs the most due to Fibre Optics.
Frankly, Virgin Media you can kiss my fucking arse.[/QUOTE]
We pay less than that for 120 mb/s, internet and phone, i think we pay like £25 a month
[QUOTE=blah2;41763575]Frankly, all west european ISP's are a massive joke. You pay that much for almost nothing.
We have fiber optic cable, speeds around [B]5000 kb/s (yes kb/s not kbps)[/B] EU and 1000 kb/s international, sometimes even more. TV + phone + free mobile number + free 3G coverage with national fees of 2.42 eurocents per minute to any other national mobile number. (10 times less than what other companies offer)
And all this shit for only 15 euros or so. All bundled.
[editline]8th August 2013[/editline]
you can only have free mobile number and free 3g coverage while bundled. and you must have a property on romanian soil.
[editline]8th August 2013[/editline]
i use viber to call my friends or facebook to text them. i rarely use my actual mobile and i pay what i use, not a fixed fee. so at 2.42 eurocents per minute i use like 5 euros a month max. sms's and calls.[/QUOTE]
you realize kb/s and kbps is the same unit? kB and kb are different(8kb in a kB).
[QUOTE=Jsm;41762940]You are possibly doing it wrong, that seems to be a bundle that has a stupid amount of TV channels and a phone package no one honestly needs.[/QUOTE]
Probably more of a family kind of package really..
I pay around £30 per month for nearly 7000ms ping, 0.03 mbps download speed and a shitty phone line
so yeah i'd quite like to switch ISPs, however I think due to where I live that might not fix anything :(
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;41760841]I pay £60 a month for 60mb of internet and phone and TV, the line rental costs the most due to Fibre Optics.
Frankly, Virgin Media you can kiss my fucking arse.[/QUOTE]
I'm on 60Mb too and have never paid for an upgrade, I started off with the lowest possible speed, over the years Virgin Media have just boosted the speed for free, I went from 20Mb to 30Mb for free because I rang them asking why newer customers were getting better prices than me, they also threw in a free SuperHub. Then they doubled my speed to 60Mb for free. I can't complain.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;41763694]Er, Kb/s and Kbps are just different ways of writing kilobits per second.[/QUOTE]
Me might've confused it with the [URL="http://www.dslreports.com/faq/2388"]whole KB/s or Kb/s thing[/URL]
[QUOTE=Cabbage;41763774]I pay around £30 per month for nearly 7000ms ping, 0.03 mbps download speed and a shitty phone line
so yeah i'd quite like to switch ISPs, however I think due to where I live that might not fix anything :([/QUOTE]
Checked if/when your exchange is getting fibre?
[url]http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/[/url]
I hope this applies to me too. We only have Karoo where I live as KC telecoms have a complete monopoly over the area and no other company can be arsed to install their own lines, so we get stuck with shitty, expensive and slow Internet.
[QUOTE=lew06;41766286]I hope this applies to me too. We only have Karoo where I live as KC telecoms have a complete monopoly over the area and no other company can be arsed to install their own lines, so we get stuck with shitty, expensive and slow Internet.[/QUOTE]
Isn't this all to do with some interesting decisions made in 1902? I only know a little bit about it but it seems like a shitty situation for anyone who lives there.
what about [URL="http://aa.net.uk/"]andrews and arnold?[/URL]
I wish we could have this in Australia. I tried to switch providers once, they cut off my other service charged me $500 and never gave me my internet.
I pay 80 quid a month for 220mb down, 40mb up. mobile phone and landline all combined
Is charter over in the UK? Works great for me, except it seems that once a week it goes down for 30 minutes or so.
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;41763357]They were good until a few years ago when they were sold to Opal and then to Talktalk[/QUOTE]
TalkTalk are a thundering juggernaut of shit. Every month on the clock when it was payday they would cut off our internet, despite it getting paid [I]on the fucking minute[/I] every single time, and then we'd have to wait two to three fucking days for them to get off their lazy arse and fix it.
And then, in December 2009, we lost our internet for the entire goddamn month because they refused for three weeks consistently to send out a new router, and then eventually they sent one after a three hour phone call.
Arseminers.
Please. We were on Virgin Media and went with BT Infinity. They didn't turn up to fix in the broadband, etc so we phoned wondering why, apparently order was cancelled.
So after 5 phone calls, managed to hassle them and got it sorted a whole month later. Annoying thing was, Virgin Media gave us a months notice so we were without internet for a week and a half. Luckily I had other things to do :v:
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;41770941]In the US, I only pay 70$ a month for a 30mb connection.[/QUOTE]
Say half the price and 40/40mbit (I get 50 though) and you got my ISP
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;41760841]Frankly, Virgin Media you can kiss my fucking arse.[/QUOTE]
Virgin seem to be nice to me up north. Every so often they call my family and say "hey do you want faster internet we can give you faster internet for free" and then they do, it goes down for 30 mins, and then internet is faster.
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