Nice one NGM - but out of interest how does one find out about these upcoming and newly released offers, e.g. the one from Plusnet??  And as for this EU1Net, it seems suspiciously cheap if you ask me... 

Some more interesting information rating Euro1Net as one of the best ISPs quality wise in the MoneySavingExpert forum.

See http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=184422

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Smasher wrote on Jun 12^th, 2006 at 6:10pm:


This seems to be the link on the Plusnet site that gives you the proper price comparison details:-

www.plus.net/features/promotions/landline_comparison.shtml

From that you can see that to get unlimited 01/02 calls plus broadband without any specific data cap (but with very aggressive fair use policy that in effect says anyone heavily into P2P stuff etc would be mad to consider Plusnet) is £29.99 per month including Line Rental.  There also doesn't appear to be a migration charge but its unclear if they will ask for money back on this if you don't stay with them for 5 years.

By contrast Euro1Net costs £180 for 18 months for 50Gb montly data cap ADSLMax broadband with unlimited 01/02 calls plus £30 connection plus BT line rental at £11 per month.  So the BT line rental comes to £198 over 18 months plus £210 for the broadband which comes out at £22.67.  Its unclear what happens with Euro1Net at the end of 18 months and whether you can then carry on at £10 per month for calls and broadband plus £11 line rental (so £21 total).  And/or I suppose you would drop off on to any lower priced offering for new customers that might by then be available?

Anyhow Euro1net is a good 20%+ cheaper even if you factor in £8 or so lost interest from the £210  you have to come up with up front for Euro1Net.  The major concern though is obviously what would happen if the Euro1Net went bust, were taken over, tried to change the terms of the service half way through (I think this would give you the right to leave and ask for your money back) or of course just delivered a shoddy slow broadband service with constant disconnects etc.  Although Euro1Net sounds good Plusnet may be better because they don't get your money up front and if you are a migrating customer you can leave at any time without penalty.  Having said that Plusnet have a pretty poor record on imposing strict and unfair rules on their broadband users and in my past experience as a customer of their dialup service the attititude of many of their customer service staff leaves a very great deal to be desired.  The Euro1Net deal sounds good bit it isn't really when you think about all the restriction of paying up front for and being locked in for 18 months.

You could also consider www.biscit.co.uk but its an 18 month contract (although not 18 months money up front) and only a certain number of minutes of calls a month to 01/02 numbers.

For a start, this works out more expensive, but it is for the heavier user.

I use Telewest and Voipstunt and so can speak from experience.

Assuming you are a new customer, Telewest will sign you up to a £30 per month (12 months) deal.
This will get you some TV, a phone with UNLIMITED WEEKEND calls to landlines, and 1mb broadband.
For your 8mb need, they can upgrade your broadband to 10mb for £17.50 first 3 months, & £35 thereafter.
From experience using a newsgroup service, and D.A.P. you do get a 1mb per second download. There is no cap on your download limit. I did 100gb one month, and NO (UN)fair usage policy.

£30 * 12 rental    (£360) +  £17.50 * 3 (£52.50) + £35 * 9 (£315)  / 12  =£727.5
Over the year this would work out to a monthly figure of  £60.63

This gives you the unlimited landline weekend calls. Max call 60 mins then chargeable.
If you subscribe to voipstunt, for   €11.60  (10 Euro + 1.6 tax) for a 4 month period, you get free calls to landlines and several foreign landlines and mobiles. This credit is not lost if you top up before it runs out. This can be used for your weekly calls. If you don't want to talk through the computer, because you're working or heavily downloading, they offer a callback facility using your landline for a 3 euro connection fee. Max call length 60 mins, then they chop you.

£8.12   (11.6 / £0.70)  for 4 months = £ 2.03 per month. + £60.63 = £62.66 monthly.

(edited because I originally put £ instead of € and had to change the maths figures accordingly  04-07-06)


Personally, I have been with Telewest long enough that I could lose some of their services.
So I use them for broadband £35 monthly.
I don't watch TV. So much of the same, and paying £136 per year for a licence is crap.
BT for the phoneline rental ONLY £11 monthly, so as to get incoming and use the callback
Subscribe to 1899 and 18185 for cheaper mobile calls, and use niftylist for countries and mobiles not covered by voipstunt.
Voipstunt for foreign and landline calls.
This works for all my business and personal calls.

Example, just using 18185 for a month reduced a friends business bill from £130 with XLN Telecom to £18.36.

You could, as I have, also sign to a mobile tariff with 12 months free line rental. You have to pay the rental then claim it back. 200 mins + 100 texts per month, doubled for 3 months, to any UK land or mobile.

You have to decide how heavy are you using the phone, net and tv.
If you could provide your best guesses, or some stats, perhaps you can be offered advice more suitable to you.