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SSE are offering 2 years 70/20mb fibre broadband, INCUDING line rental, for £24.50 a month
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Firstly, all credit to UnclePotter who first posted this deal, but I feel that the cheap high speed fibre aspect of the deal is better than the free "copper" broadband offer he highlights. So I thought it worth the repost.
SSE are offering full speed, 70mb download and 20mb upload, fibre with line rental, including weekend calls, for £24.50 a month for 2 years, with free connection. This is by far the cheapest deal I can find for that speed. It says unlimited downloads, but there is a traffic management policy which you should read to see if it suits you.
There is also £126 cashback available from topcashback to sweeten the deal, and if it pays out, it takes the deal down to £19.25 a month. Incredible! There are not many reviews for SSE broadband, so there is a risk involved, but one I have decided to take. I leave the choice to you
SSE are offering full speed, 70mb download and 20mb upload, fibre with line rental, including weekend calls, for £24.50 a month for 2 years, with free connection. This is by far the cheapest deal I can find for that speed. It says unlimited downloads, but there is a traffic management policy which you should read to see if it suits you.
There is also £126 cashback available from topcashback to sweeten the deal, and if it pays out, it takes the deal down to £19.25 a month. Incredible! There are not many reviews for SSE broadband, so there is a risk involved, but one I have decided to take. I leave the choice to you
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I'll stick with Origin Broadband
But for the people not in a virgin area like a good few this is a good deal.
DemonIT: as tipsy1973 says, Virgin is not an option for me, so this is my best bet.
I've asked about virgin media without phone line and WAS TOLD it's impossible, not such deal.
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You WERE TOLD wrong then ;D
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Ah, ok, this is an EFM product then, hence the need for phone line?
Virgin got £28.50 without phone line
Nonsense
Virgin got £28.50 without phone line[/quote
Yeah - that's RRP - but you can find deals, or just ask - you might get.
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So glad I had put my cup of tea down when I read that. Plusnet support being good, lol.
Yes and I think they are throwing in a trip to the moon
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Even more reason to go Virgin
Not 100% sure, but I don't think you pay the discount back. But there are charges for cancelling before your contract ends and depending on your package there's a maximum charge they can give you or its x amount for each month if that's under the maximum charge. It should be explained online it is definitely explained when placing the order on the phone.
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whoever told you that is an idiot, I know loads with just broadband, no phone line, a friend has just cancelled his TV and phone package and kept his 152mbDo SSE block sites?
We haven't ever asked or been asked, sorry
So u don't block pirate bay or new album releases etc?
If not and you started would this acceptable grounds to leave the contract cost free?
I could ask this for you but I'm not aware of their ruling on this particular issue
I'm currently with Sky but the discount they gave me for the year is almost up so been doing some research.
Just rang SSE and got the following nuggets of info that others may find handy:
They are on the Openreach network
Their call centre is in the UK and they've just hired 60 new call centre staff - (spoke to a lovely lady on her first day so if she is anything to go by the support should be effective)
The contract is for 18 months and after this you move to a rolling monthly contract (so would need to stay for an additional 6 months as in their T&C's - there is no obligation to take out another extended contract after the 18 months)
Discounts are applied each month NOT at the end of the term
They said they've been doing broadband for a couple of years but as others have mentioned in the forum I've not been able to see any reviews on their service
Sounds like a really good offer - my only hang up (and this isn't a fault of SSE) is that because I am with Sky they will need to get an engineer in and switch my line which means I could be without broadband for up to 7 days.
Personally I'm going to contact Sky first to see what deal they can offer me but if they aren't competitive I am very tempted to go with SSE as their prices are some of the lowest around particularly for fibre.
Virgins 50Mbit package has 3 Mbit/s upload not 5 Mbit.
The only reason I can think of for having 50/5 is if you're on a higher package and your area's not had the last round of speed upgrades as AFAIK the current tiers are 50/3 100/6 and 152/12
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my.virginmedia.com/tra…tml shows the upload speeds on the various packages and also what they get throttled to by the STM (It's still enabled on the upload)
Sky will do a deal if you want to stay with them. I sorted out one a month ago with them as I'm with them because of the O2 broadband take over deal they did and when my contract ran out, it continued at an eye watering price, so I phoned up and complained got the last month price reduced as a future price reduction on next month. Think I ended up with it costing me half price for the year on fibre.
Try checking the speed with BT or someone similar, as it will be openreach FTTC they'll be using.
Then you'll need to call them to confirm it's available to you as if they're using TalkTalk as their back-haul provider it will probably also depend on TT having a GEA handover that covers the FTTC cabs in your area (A physical interconnect between the Openreach FTTC network and TT's own network)
Aww baby, that speed.
For some reason British ISPs all have terrible uploads speeds, but VM's are especially bad.
Just gave them a ring and the earliest Fibre installation date for my property is 26th May!