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Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 12:18 PM
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BT are offering an unlimited service for £28 a month.
I am now considering buying out of the plusnet contract and moving over to BT.
My questions are:
1) Although I am in theory already with BT as all plusnet members are, do I have to pay the £25 fibre activation fee?
2) Have any other plusnet fibre trialists moved over to BT and can comment on the service?
3) How do BT differ to plusnet with regards to throttling of services.
Many thanks
Stuart
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 12:27 PM
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Looking at the BT Forums on TBB the throttling seems to be only on P2P
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/bt/f/3995968-should-i-move-to-bt-for-fttc.html?page=1&o=31
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 12:38 PM
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It's a shame that plusnet do not offer a premium offering like I used to have before - unlimited usage for £29.95 a month.
I can't fault the service I get from plusnet in any way whatsoever, which is why I returned here from bethere, which was useless.
But it is just not financially viable to stay here and get a heavily throttled product at £5 per GB.
Come on plusnet sort this out!
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 12:53 PM
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Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 2:09 PM
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Last time I looked there was no such package on offer.
I have just located it and will look into this in more detail.
It seems there is very little information available from plusnet on their offering.
I am still pondering other unlimited uncapped services at a similar price.
Many thanks for pointing this out to me.
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 2:13 PM
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The critical point is whether you are in Market 3 - if you aren't then the BT version is cheaper
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 2:25 PM
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If you look through the fibre section of the website, there is no information on the pro add on whatsoever. It mentions a bit about it inside the broadband section.
So the long and short of it is I can change my account to Plusnet Extra Fibre, which will give me 120GB, for £21.49, then if I want I can add the pro addon, for £5 a month, without losing any of that 120GB? (bearing in mind the previous Pro package was something like 20GB)
If thats the case then I would be more than happy to do so rather than losing my static IP to go over to BT. I wouldnt even mind paying the extra when I go over the limit!
Thanks again for helping me out with this.
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
02-05-2011 2:29 PM
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That is absolutely correct and of course you still have the free overnight period - for sure if I was going fibre (in March 2012) then I would have the Pro addon as well
Quote from: Hamula So the long and short of it is I can change my account to Plusnet Extra Fibre, which will give me 120GB, for £21.49, then if I want I can add the pro addon, for £5 a month, without losing any of that 120GB? (bearing in mind the previous Pro package was something like 20GB)
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
03-05-2011 2:24 AM
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Are you a triallist from when it was free, or did you go for it when it was a £12pm extra?
If the latter, the PN seem to have said that they'll be automatically transferring people over to the new fibre packages anyway.
If the former, then you defintely have to ask for it.
The package change has to happen on the day that you get billed, so you need to ask before that date.
Once on the package, you can control whether the "Pro" add-on is activated from your control panel, and it appears to be applied straight away.
Using FTTC since 2011. Currently on 80/20 Unlimited Fibre Extra.
Re: Switch to BT due to high costs
22-09-2011 2:52 PM
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22-09-2011 2:56 PM
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