Latest Broadband Deals
BT Infinity Speed Doubles To 76Mbps For BT Infinity 2
BT (www.BT.com/infinityupgrade) has doubled its BT Infinity speed for its BT Infinity 2 package from 38Mbps to up to 76Mbps for no extra cost.
From April 12th, new or existing BT Infinity customers ordering BT Infinity 2 Broadband will automatically benefit from broadband speeds eight times faster than the UK average, together with the UK’s fastest upload speeds of up to 19Mbps.
Prices for BT Infinity 2 Broadband start from £20 a month for the first 3 months (£26 per month thereafter) and include an unlimited download usage allowance, a free BT Infinity Home Hub, plus unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines.
BT Infinity 1 Broadband, which costs from £9 a month for up to 38Mbps download speeds, has also been revamped with upload speeds increasing fivefold to up to 9.5Mbps.
Commenting on the speed increase, BT Consumer’s Managing Director, John Petter, said: “Super-fast broadband is helping people enjoy the internet far more than ever before. However, many providers have forgotten about the importance of fast upload speeds. BT believes that fast upstream speeds are vital given how people now use the internet and so we are distancing ourselves from the competition by providing the UK’s fastest upload speed”.
BT Infinity is currently available to 11 million homes and businesses across the UK (as at October 2012). This is set to rise to around two thirds of all UK premises by the end of 2014.
Readers can check whether their home or business can get BT Infinity Broadband by visiting the www.BT.com/infinity website and entering their phone number or postcode. Orders placed online for BT Infinity will also qualify for a free £50 Sainsbury’s voucher.
BT Free Calls For A Year & £25 Sainsbury’s Gift Card
BT (www.BT.com/freecalls) has launched a free calls for a year incentive, together with a £25 Sainsbury’s gift card, to new customers who buy BT Broadband for £13 a month.
Available to order online only at the www.BT.com website, the incentive also features a shorter 12 month contract period as opposed to the standard 18 month contract for BT Broadband and Call packages.
The free calls for a year apply to anytime calls to UK landlines and 0845/0870 numbers, while the broadband package delivers broadband speeds up to 16Mbps, together with a 10GB monthly usage allowance.
The BT Home Hub and Wi-Fi minutes are also included for free, as are a raft of other features like online storage, PC security and a 24 hour helpline.
BT Vision, BT’s digital TV service, can also be added to a customer’s online order for an additional £4 a month, while BT phone line rental, costing from £10.75 a month, is required.
New customers ordering the broadband and free calls for a year offer online can claim their £25 Sainsbury’s gift card by entering their details on the www.BT.com/claimvoucher website once their broadband has been installed. The Gift Card will be sent once their broadband has been activated.
Readers can find out more at the www.BT.com/freecalls website.
Plus.net/4monthscash – Free Broadband & £25 Cashback
Plusnet (www.plus.net/4monthscash) has launched a 4 months free broadband offer together with a £25 cashback incentive for orders placed online by the 10th April.
The 4 months free broadband offer applies to Plusnet Value and Plusnet Extra broadband when taken with a Plusnet Homephone package.
This means new customers switching to Plusnet can get Plusnet Value Broadband with inclusive evening & weekend phone calls to UK landlines, free for the first 4 months, followed by just £6.49 a month thereafter.
Plusnet Value Broadband provides download speeds up to 20Mbps together with a 10GB monthly usage allowance plus a free usage allowance between the hours of midnight and 8am.
Plusnet Extra Broadband, with up to 20Mbps speeds and a 60GB monthly usage cap, is also free for the first 4 months when taken with Plusnet’s evening and weekend or anytime homephone package. Prices start from £11.49 a month in month five.
Plusnet phone line rental, which costs from £9.49 a month is required with these deals. There’s also a one off £49 to pay should a new customer not have a BT based landline and need Plusnet to install a new one.
All deals are available on 12 month contracts and include a free wireless router, free activation (saving £25) and free calls to Plusnet’s UK based customer services team.
Readers interested in switching to Plusnet can find out more at the www.plus.net/4monthscash website. Orders must be placed online by the 10th April to qualify for the 4 months free broadband and £25 cashback offer.
Virginmedia.com/Amazon – £50 Amazon Gift Voucher
Virgin Media (www.virginmedia.com/amazon) is giving away a £50 Amazon gift voucher plus a 3 months free offer to new customers who order a Virgin Media bundle online by the 31st March.
The new incentive together with the company’s existing free installation and free TiVo box activation offers mean new customers can generate savings of at least £209 when they switch to a broadband, TV and phone bundle from Virgin Media.
Virgin Media’s broadband, TV and phone bundles start from £20 a month (after the first 3 months free) and for this customers receive unlimited broadband speeds up to 10Mbps, access to 75 digital TV channels including Sky1, SkyLIVING and Discovery via the supplied VHD or TiVo box, plus unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landline and Virgin Mobile numbers.
Catch Up TV is included which enables customers to catch up on the last 7 days’ TV with the BBC iPlayer, 4 On Demand and ITV Net Player.
There’s also a vast choice of films, shows and music videos that are available to watch on demand, while 6 HD channels including the likes of BBC One HD and FilmFour HD can be enjoyed.
New customers opting for Virgin Media’s clever new 500GB TiVo box (at an additional cost of £5 a month) will be able to pause, rewind and record TV, record three programmes & watch a fourth, plus have storage for 250 hours of TV. There’s also other great functionality likes Wishlists and Search & Browse.
Virgin Media is currently rolling out a double broadband speed upgrade programme in phases across the country, which means new customers taking the £20 bundle outlined above should, over the next 12 months, see their broadband speeds double to 20Mbps for free.
Interested readers will need to order a Virgin Media bundle online at the www.virginmedia.com/amazon website by the 31st March in order to qualify for the first 3 months free and a £50 Amazon gift voucher.
Sky.com/Sale – Half Price Sky Broadband Unlimited
Sky (www.sky.com/sale) has extended its 9 months half price Sky Broadband Unlimited offer to midnight on the 19th April.
Available to order online only, the 9 months half price incentive means existing Sky TV customers can enjoy Sky Broadband Unlimited for just £3.75 a month, while new customers need only pay £5 a month.
Sky telephone line rental is required and costs £12.25 a month, while telephone calls to UK landlines during the evenings and at weekend are included at no additional cost.
Sky Broadband Unlimited is Sky’s premium broadband package which offers no monthly download usage caps or limits.
The package also includes a free Sky wireless router, 24/7 technical support and a free 3 month trial of McAfee Internet Security Suite.
In a recent customer service satisfaction report commissioned by Ofcom, Sky was found to offer its broadband customers unbeatable customer satisfaction compared with BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk.
Readers interesed in Sky’s 9 month half price broadband sale can find out more and order online at the sky.com/sale website.
BT Broadband £3.50 With £50 Sainsbury’s Voucher
BT (www.bt.com) has launched an exclusive broadband and calls offer for £3.50 a month that includes a £50 Sainsbury’s voucher.
New customers taking up the offer can enjoy BT Total Broadband speeds up to 20Mbps together with unlimited evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines for just £3.50 a month for the first 6 months, followed by £13 per month thereafter.
BT phone line rental is required and costs from just £10 a month using BT’s Landline Saver deal.
The £3.50 package includes a free BT Home Hub wireless router, a 10GB monthly download usage allowance, free around the clock technical support, plus unlimited Wifi access at over 3.5 million Wifi hotspots across the UK.
Customers can claim their £50 Sainsbury’s voucher once their BT Broadband has been installed. The voucher will then be posted out to the customer once their claim has been validated.
Readers interested in BT’s £3.50 broadband and calls deal must place their order online at BT’s specific www.bt.com/£3.50 offer page in order to qualify as the deal is not available or published anywhere else on the BT website. The £50 Sainsbury’s voucher offer ends on the 15th March 2012, while the £3.50 broadband and calls offer ends on the 29th March 2012.
