I'm currently with $ky bb (on an offer) which is due to end around June/July and I'm looking for an alternative.  The offer was 'free' broadband just pay line rental (which I paid in advance).  It doesn't look like you can pay line rental in advance anymore and as I'm already a customer I even doubt they would do 'free' broadband neither.

I need 'truly' (no traffic shaping) unlimited broadband. Just need line for the ADSL (don't use phone for calls, etc).

There are two other providers that I can think off (apart from $ky again) and they are TalkTalk and PlusNet.

Anyone think of anyone else?

Edit by bbb_uk: This post was moved from Post Office HomePhone thread.



bbb_uk wrote on May 16^th, 2014 at 9:13pm:

For me, however, it's a no as PO charge £10 for unlimited broadband.

bbb_uk, (its good to see you back on a rather more more full time basis by the way and sorry to hear that Dave has had to break for a while for personal reasons)

How much do you pay for "Unlimited Broadband" then and do you mean copper or fibre?  Here in the countryside we are a Market 1 exchange area so most providers charge in the mid/high teens per month for copper broadband.

As P O Homephone has nationwide pricing for broadband they are actually about the cheapest in a Market 1 exchange area at only £7 per month for a service with a 10Gb download cap.  But they also have an unlimited service at £10 per month.    And anyhow both currently come with a £50 bill credit for signing up making them effectively just over £4 per month cheaper than those figures in the first year.

The main issue though is all out of bundle calls are now subject to a horrendous daytime per minute call rate of 8.5p per minute plus 15p connection so for you dear old mum you would also need to be taking the full anytime calls bundle at £5.75 per month (similar to BT).  This does cover 0845 and 0870 but but not 0844 and 0871 which are now all subject to penal rates at all times with 15p per call connection charges.

The free Extras of free international landline and UK mobile calls up to an hour exist between 6pm Friday and 6am Monday as long as you take at least the evening calls or anytime call bundles.

You don't have to take your broadband from P O Homephone though.  I only take the phone line and calls from them and take my broadband from the small ISP known as www.vivaciti.net

On the two exchanges our family has lines with P O Homephone from (exchanges with 1800 and 4500 lines) the services still clearly comes from BT Wholesale as www.1899.com and www.18185.co.uk can still be used for daytime calls.  However it is rumoured that on large town exchanges P O Homephone buy their service from TalkTalk and consequently Indirect Acces with 1899/18185 etc is blocked.

If P O Homephone ever block 18185 in particular or Indirect Access specfically it will be time to move on with the lines we have with them.  Having said that BT Retail now also have the regulatory right to block Indirect Access use from Ofcom but have not so far had the nerve to try and impose it on their own lines.

NGMsGhost wrote on May 17^th, 2014 at 9:49am:

How much do you pay for "Unlimited Broadband" then and do you mean copper or fibre?  Here in the countryside we are a Market 1 exchange area so most providers charge in the mid/high teens per month for copper broadband. As P O Homephone has nationwide pricing for broadband they are actually about the cheapest in a Market 1 exchange area at only £7 per month for a service with a 10Gb download cap.  But they also have an unlimited service at £10 per month.    And anyhow both currently come with a £50 bill credit for signing up making them effectively just over £4 per month cheaper than those figures in the first year.

NGM, I moved your post to this thread as it was going to become off-topic  ;)

I pay just linerental with $ky and it's for copper service (Fibre is still too expensive imho).

I believe $ky's normal price (without TV) is £10 for bb and then I have to add their linerental on top which by looks of things they have stopped doing line rental up front.


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The main issue though is all out of bundle calls are now subject to a horrendous daytime per minute call rate of 8.5p per minute plus 15p connection so for you dear old mum you would also need to be taking the full anytime calls bundle at £5.75 per month (similar to BT).  This does cover 0845 and 0870 but but not 0844 and 0871 which are now all subject to penal rates at all times with 15p per call connection charges.

I am thinking of PO HomePhone for my mum as she doesn't require bb but does need the anytime calls package along with caller display and 0845/0870 included.  However, her contract doesn't finish until around November I believe.

Can you think of any other suitable bb providers?

Tesco offer unlimited broadband if you live in catchment area, subject to T&C of course.

http://www.tescobroadband.com/

bigjohn wrote on May 19^th, 2014 at 4:09am:

Tesco offer unlimited broadband if you live in catchment area, subject to T&C of course. http://www.tescobroadband.com/

Thanks for that.

However, their website states that there is no capacity (presumably at the exchange).

Do you know who Tesco bb piggy back on by any chance?

Tesco Broadband  run their home broadband service through Cable and Wireless on the  Bulldog network.
They supply LLU ADSL2+ to around 900 UK exchanges which means that availability, while fairly extensive, falls short of some of the larger suppliers.

bbb_uk I would recommend checking out another forum I am on which is really helpful and has lots of info on it,

www.thinkbroadband.com it's also worth using this website http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search to check which providers you can get...

:)

cjt-80, thanks I already knew about samknows and have come across thinkbroadband before (but don't really frequent it that often tbh).

Has anyone come across problems with migrating line and bb from a LLU provider (ie $ky) to another provider?