Broadband Deals
Articles on the topic : BT Broadband
BT Broadband Users Get Unlimited Wi-Fi Access
BT Broadband (BT.com) customers can now get unlimited Wi-Fi access to 1.5 million BT FON and BT Openzone Wi-Fi hospots across the UK.
Prior to today’s announcement, BT Total Broadband customers had a specific number of Wi-Fi minutes available to them depending upon the BT Total Broadband package they had.
BT’s FON network is a community of Wi-Fi users who share their broadband access with other BT FON members, enabling users to securely take their broadband with them when out and about across the UK.
BT Openzone’s Wi-Fi network can be accessed in locations like airports, hotels, coffee shops, motorway service stations and city centres.
Commenting on the news, BT Retail’s Consumer Managing Director, John Petter, said: “Because of the growing number of BT customers with mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones, we know that mobile access to the internet is needed more than ever before”.
Petter continued: “Our BT FON and BT Openzone networks expanded by 800,000 hotspots during 2009 and we expect to have over 2.5m hotspots by the end of 2011. This continuing level of expansion means that these networks are rapidly becoming the simplest way for people to access the internet when out and about”.
Unlimited access to BT’s Wi-Fi network is automatically included for free within all the BT Total Broadband packages.
New customers switching to BT and taking BT’s Talk and Surf Plus package can also get their first 3 months free.
BT Talk and Surf Plus provides up to 20Mb broadband speeds plus anytime phone calls to UK landlines. A £75 Dabs.com voucher is currently being offered to the first 1,000 people ordering online.
Readers can find out more at the BT.com website.
BT Broadband Offers £75 Dabs.com Voucher
BT (BT.com) is offering a £75 Dabs.com voucher to customers ordering BT Broadband or a new BT phone line online before the 30th June 2010.
Limited to the first 1,000 orders, the offer is available to customers ordering online any BT package which contains a new BT line or new BT Broadband, or any standalone order for a new BT line or broadband.
The incentive means new customers opting for BT’s best value broadband and anytime phone calls package, known as BT Talk & Surf Plus, can get their first 3 months free (saving £47.97), plus the £75 Dabs.com voucher.
Dabs.com is a leading consumer electronics retailer selling a wide range of laptops, netbooks, PC’s, printers, digital cameras and digital TVs – to name but a few.
Customers can claim their £75 voucher once their new BT service has been installed and/or activated. They will need to enter their BT online order ID on the claims form at www.dabs.com/btvoucher.
The £75 Dabs.com voucher is valid for use between the 1st and 31st of July 2010.
Readers are advised to place their BT Broadband order on the BT.com website over this weekend or early next week as the offer only applies to the first 1,000 online orders received by BT.
BT Broadband Deals Offer Additional £60 Saving
BT (BT.com/packages) is offering new customers a further £60 saving on its broadband and anytime phone calls package – A package that already has the first 3 months free.
BT’s new exclusive online deal means new customers switching to BT’s Talk & Surf Plus package can get their first 3 months free, then pay just £15.99 a month, as opposed to the usual price of £19.99 per month.
BT’s Talk & Surf Plus package provides broadband speeds up to 20Mbps together with a 10GB monthly download usage allowance. A free BT Home Hub worth £89.99 is also included, together with free Wi-Fi minutes, free online storage and basis PC security.
Unlimited anytime phone calls to UK landlines make up the Talk element of the package which also features inclusive calls anytime to 0845 and 0870 telephone numbers.
Those new customers requiring a BT landline to be installed or reconnected need only pay a £50 connection fee if they order the BT Talk & Surf Plus package online. This is a saving of £74.99 on the usual price of £124.99.
Readers can find out further information at the BT.com/packages website or at our BT Broadband deals review.
BT Fibre Optic Broadband Roll Out Gets £1bn Boost
BT (BT.com/infinity) has announced plans to invest a further £1bn into the roll out of its super-fast fibre optic broadband service which will see coverage extend to two-thirds of UK homes and businesses by 2015.
The news means BT will now be committing a total of £2.5bn to its fibre optic broadband network (known as BT Infinity), which offers broadband download speeds up to 40Mbps.
Around 4 million UK homes are expected to have access to BT Infinity’s super-fast speeds by December 2010, with 10 million homes able to connect by summer 2012.
BT’s additional £1bn expenditure will be managed within their current levels of capital expenditure of around £2.6bn.
BT Infinity Broadband (Option 1) prices start from £19.99 a month for speeds up to 40Mbps together with a 20GB monthly data usage allowance. Up to 2Mb upload speeds are achievable.
Unlimited data usage, subject to a fair use policy is offered with the BT Infinity Option 2 package (£24.99 a month) which also features upload speeds up to 10Mbps.
Readers can check when the BT fibre optic broadband roll out comes to their area at the BT.com/infinity website.
BT’s rival, Virgin Media, already provides fibre optic broadband packages with speeds up to 50Mbps to 55% of UK homes. Prices start from £15 a month when taken with a Virgin phone line. No BT phone line is required.
BT Broadband, Calls & BT Vision FREE For 3 Months
BT (BT.com/packages) has launched a 3 months FREE online offer across its broadband, phone calls and BT Vision digital TV packages.
The offer means new customers ordering online either a broadband & anytime phone calls package or a broadband, anytime calls and BT Vision digital TV bundle can get 3 months FREE on all services taken.
Maximum savings of £146.97 can be made for those customers ordering BT’s Talk, Surf and Watch Unlimited package which features unlimited anytime phone calls, broadband speeds up to 20Mbps and the full BT Vision digital TV service with 6 viewing packs.
For those customers not requiring digital TV, savings of up to £83.97 can still be achieved with the BT Broadband and phone calls package known as BT Talk and Surf Unlimited.
In related news, BT has increased the price for buying BT Broadband on its own and removed the introductory discount.
With prices for BT Broadband only deals now starting from £15.99 a month, it is now much better value for a customer to take a BT package, with BT Talk & Surf costing £14.49 a month after the 3 months introductory price of £7.49 per month.
Alternatively, customers can opt for the BT Talk & Surf Plus package and get their first 3 months free, followed by £15.99 a month after.
A £124.99 charge usually applies for those new customers needing a BT line installed or reconnected, however, BT is reducing this to £50 when a Calls & Broadband package is ordered online.
Furthermore, this charge is reduced to £0 when a BT Calls, Broadband & TV package is ordered online.
Interesed readers can find out more at the BT.com/packages website or our BT Broadband, Phone Calls & Digital TV review.
Free BT Vision+ Box Ending At BT.com/packages
BT (BT.com/packages) has announced that its free BT Vision+ box offer will end on Friday 26th March (tomorrow).
The offer, which generates new customers a saving of £45, applies to two of BT’s triple packages that contain BT Total Broadband, BT Vision TV On Demand and BT phone calls.
The first package, known as BT Talk, Surf and Watch More, costs from £13.49 a month and includes broadband speeds up to 20Mbps (a 20GB usage limit applies), an unbeatable wireless connection compared to other broadband suppliers and the wireless BT home hub worth £89.99.
Also included is the BT Vision Bronze Value Pack containing the free BT Vision+ recorder box, 70 Freeview channels, BT’s TV and Replay viewing packs, plus a choice of two other viewing packs offering the latest blockbuster films, TV box sets, Kids TV, Sport and Music.
Unlimited UK weekend landline phone calls complete the line up for BT’s Talk, Surf and Watch More package with weekend calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers included at no extra cost.
New customers buying this package will also save an additional £80.85 compared to buying each service seperately from BT.
BT’s second triple package, known as BT Talk, Surf and Watch Unlimited, costs from £35.99 a month and as the name suggests contains unlimited broadband usage, ALL the viewing packs available with BT Vision and unlimited UK landline phone calls at any time of the day or night.
New customers can save an additional £61.17 if they buy this package as opposed to taking each service independently from BT.
Readers interested in generated savings potentially up to £125.85 can find out more at the BT.com/packages website, though they will have to hurry as the free BT Vision+ box offer ends tomorrow.
