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Posted 10 April 2012
Post Office currently offering FREE BT Openreach landline installation [rrp £112.34] as well as NO minimum term contract / £12.25 a month
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This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Just noticed that between 1st April 2012 and 20th May 2012 Post Office Home Phone are now offering to install or activate a new landline free of charge. Regular charge £112.34 it says. Whatsmore you are not subjected to a minimum term contract so you're free to up sticks and move elsewhere after the first month should you wish to do so. Monthly line rental is £12.25.
Call free on 0800 092 0514 to place an order. (If calling from a contract mobile simply dial "0800 Buster" first on 0116 304 0800 to ensure the cost of the call comes out of your inclusive minutes).
Line rental is increasing to £13.25 from May 21st.
- sweetas2009
Call free on 0800 092 0514 to place an order. (If calling from a contract mobile simply dial "0800 Buster" first on 0116 304 0800 to ensure the cost of the call comes out of your inclusive minutes).
Line rental is increasing to £13.25 from May 21st.
- sweetas2009
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sorted by"If you cancel Post Office HomePhone® within six months of any New Line Provision, we may charge you a cancellation fee to cover our reasonable costs. That cancellation fee is set out in the Price List."
From Price List:
"New Line Provision Cancellation Charge - HomePhone
"If you cancel Post Office HomePhone within six months of any New Line Provision, we may charge you a cancellation fee of £15 tocover our reasonable costs."
So it seems it's JUST a £15 fee to gain the £112.34 worth of new line provision!
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone/price-list
MKD
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Basically your telephone line is classified as either BT or Cable (run by Virgin now). A BT line is an analogue/digital line connected via the copper pipes laid under the streets to the local telephone exchange. These exchanges belong to BT but under competition rules OFTEL forced BT many years ago to allow other communication companies to station their equipment at these exchanges.
Therefore if your telephone/broadband contract is with anyone but Virgin you have a BT line. The line maintenance and repair work will still be done by BT engineers but the analogue and broadband traffic on the line is owned and operated by a secondary company. This could be SKY, TalkTalk, Primus, Orange, O2, etc. etc. So once you honour your minimum length of contract you are free to choose a new company...... and don't forget your Quidco cashback.
I hope this information is helpful.
Please do not do that. It is people doing things like that which ultimately ruin deals for everyone.
This is an amazing offer - I got tied into contract with BT to avoid paying the installation fee, now I'm stuck with a crap provider.
Don't let little things like facts get in the way of having a pop at the royal mail
or is it a monthly fee
I'm confused
It's monthly line rental and they fit you a free line (if required).
The FFTC is fine. But only 40/2 available, not 40/10. Maybe that will change when 80/20 comes along.
Support can be iffy, but you get there in the end through their forum.
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You dont need to do this. I was nearing the end of my virgin contract last year. I gave in my 30days notice, then I went on the website through quidco and purchased a package as a new customer and asked for an installation date as the same day as my cancellation. I then phoned customer service to tell them what I did and they made sure that my new order went through and said we will note on the system that you dont need an installation or new box or modem, etc
Cold.
Received letter - from mid May £4.50 per month add on will give me unlimited UK calls all week. Highly recommended!!!! Use code [removed] to get all benefits.
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YOU DON'T NEED THAT CODE AS ALL OF THESE BENEFITS ARE STANDARD WITH THE POST OFFICE HOME PHONE AND HAVE BEEN FOR MANY YEARS. LOOKS LIKE THIS GUY WORKS IN A POST OFFICE AND WANTS TO GET PAID COMMISSION FOR ALL THE SIGN UPS HERE. HEARD THEY GET PAID £10 PER SIGN UP SO COULD MAKE A KILLING FROM HERE!
I USED CODE [removed], FROM MY LOCAL POST OFFICE. I RANG A FEW DAYS AFTER THEIR £50CASHBACK DEAL FINISHED. HOWEVER, AFTER TELLING THEM THAT I WAS GIVEN THIS CODE "1524054"BY MY LOCAL POST OFFICE AND THAT THEY STILL HAD LEAFLETS OUT WITH THE DEAL ON THEY HONORED THE CASHBACK TO BE PAID TO ME ON MY 2ND AND 3RD BILL. GIVE THIS A TRY. GOOD LUCK. MY LINE INSTALLED AND BROADBAND UP AND RUNNING. ASK ME IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS.
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just spoke with customer services they confirmed that there is no optional extra add on for £4.50 for unlimited uk calls. me thinks this guy is out to make packet from this deal as there is also a £10 refer a friend payment made for each new customer sign up. I asked about this code and was told that the code does not relate to any deal or extra benefit for you just a sign up payment being paid to someone, but couldn't tell me who. 10% loved ones discount given to all as standard, just have to register the numbers once connected, you also get to make a 60 minute call to each of them for free on their birthdays and on xmas day! I suppose you should go to you local post office and use their code or you could use my local post offices number "1524054" run by a lovely brother and sister team. plus they are under threat of closure so could probably do with the sales.
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check out plusnet
It depends on the banding that the CP pays openreach for, some installs come with unlimited banding/timing, others come with none which include a NTE5 within 5m of the point of entry of the cable. Most engineers will give a little leeway, keep your openreach CSE filled with coffee/tea and biscuits and he'll "probably" be a lot more accommodating to your needs.
Wow...thanks for posting that link.Some serious poor reviews and these are very recent reviews, with the current promotion on i can't see things improving too quickly.I was tempted to get a second line in but have enough problems with BT at the moment and can't help thinking the engineer might banjax my current wiring and make things worse.
Okay forget about the question above, after reading these i'm staying with T-mobile broadband until I move
reviewcentre.com/rev…tml
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payments to suit you - by direct debit, over the phone or at your local Post Office® branch and the price is the same whichever you choose
"free connection making it easy to get you started 3"
then the relevant point at the bottom is:-
"3 subject to current service provider"
So it may only be free when switching from certain other providers e.g. not from TalkTalk which does not connect through BT. Also there is a 12 month minimum contract for broadband but i realise that the original posted deal doesn't mention broadband.
so, £15 plus first months line rental = £27.25 ! still hot from me
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could I have this deal as a second line and use it with bt infinity?
so i would have 2 x internet providers.
Thanks
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IDNet have 30 day contracts.