Latest Broadband Deals
Virgin Media Bundles Offer Savings Of £159.90
Virgin Media (www.virginmedia.com/bundles) is offering savings of up to £159.90 to new customers ordering a Virgin broadband, TV and phone bundle online.
The savings come in the form of free installation worth £49.95, free TiVo activation worth £49.95, plus an additional £60 off – which will be a £60 credit applied to the customer’s bill.
Virgin Media Broadband, TV and phone bundles start from £23 a month for up to 10Mbps unlimited broadband speeds, the new TiVo 500GB set top box, 75 digital TV channels and unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landlines.
New customers requiring faster broadband speeds up to 30Mbps can opt for the £28 a month bundle which includes the same TV and phone package elements as the £23 bundle, but with higher broadband speeds at 30Mbps.
Six months free access to Spotify Premium, the digital music service offering 15 million music tracks, is also included in Virgin’s 30Mbps, 50Mbps and 100Mbps broadband packages.
New customers can build their own broadband, TV and phone bundle online at the virginmedia.com website and choose additional features like HD, 3D, plus Sky Sports and Movie channels.
Interested readers have until the 24th November to order their Virgin Media bundle online at the www.virginmedia.com/bundles website and save themeselves £159.90.
Plusnet £3.24 For 9 Months – Half Price Broadband
Plusnet (www.plus.net) has reduced the price of its ‘Value’ broadband and calls package to £3.24 a month for 9 months following the launch of its half price offer.
The Plusnet Value Broadband & Calls package (usual cost £6.49 a month) provides up to 20Mbps broadband speeds together with unlimited evening and weekend UK landline phone calls.
Plusnet Broadband comes with a sizeable 10GB monthly download usage allowance which is ‘topped’ up by a free usage allowance between the hours of midnight and 8am.
A free wireless router is also included, together with free activation and free calls to Plusnet’s UK based customer services and support team.
New customers switching to Plusnet for this offer will need a Plusnet or other BT based landline to get Plusnet Broadband.
Plusnet charge a one-off £49.99 for a new phone line to be installed, while their monthly phone line rental costs £11.99 a month.
The 9 months half price broadband offer also applies to the Plusnet Value Broadband and Anytime Calls package which is available for £6.74 a month for the first 9 months, followed by £9.99 per month for the remainder of the 12 month contract.
Interested readers can find out more and order online at the www.plus.net website.
Virginmedia.com/Spotify – 6 Months Free Music Offer
Virgin Media (www.virginmedia.com/spotify) is offering new broadband customers 6 months free access to the Spotify Premium music streaming service – which represents a saving of nearly £60.
The offer also applies to existing customers re-contracting, with both new and existing customers needing to take Virgin Media’s 30Mbps broadband service as a minimum in order to qualify.
Virgin Media’s 30Mbps broadband package costs from £8.50 a month and includes unlimited weekend calls to UK landlines and Virgin Mobiles when taken with Virgin phone line rental (£13.90 p/m).
The package includes unlimited downloads, free Internet security, a free wireless router and free installation (worth £49.95) when ordered online at the virginmedia.com website.
According to Ofcom’s review of UK broadband speeds published in July 2011, existing Virgin Media 30Mbps broadband customers typically get broadband speeds of 30.62Mbps – which is four times faster than the UK average broadband speed.
Spotify is the award-winning digital music service, which gives users on-demand access to over 15 million music tracks – all of which can be streamed online, on mobile, or soon to be on TV with the Spotify app for Virgin Media’s TiVo service.
Spotify Premium is the top of the range Spotify experience without the adverts. Usually costing £9.99 a month, Spotify Premium gives users access to millions of tracks, online or offline, offering enhanced sound quality, plus access to exclusive content.
On expiry of the 6 months free access, Virgin Media customers can choose to continue to subscribe to the Spotify Premium service through Virgin Media at a cost of £9.99 a month.
Customers not wishing to continue will have their Spotify accounts reverted to the advert-supported Spotify free service.
Interested readers can find out more information and order/recontract online at the www.virginmedia.com/spotify website.
6 Million Homes In BT Infinity Areas – Is Yours?
BT Infinity areas (BT.com/infinity) now cover 6 million UK homes & businesses with that figure expected to leap to 10 million by August 2012.
The news follows an announcement by BT that it is bringing forward around £300 million pounds worth of investment in order to give two thirds of UK premises access to its fibre optic broadband network (BT Infinity) by the end of 2014 – one year early.
BT Infinity provides super-fast broadband speeds up to 40Meg from just £7.50 per month and includes unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landlines and 0845/0870 numbers.
The headline 40Meg broadband speeds are expected to double to up to 80Meg speeds by the spring of next year.
Commenting on the announcement, the CEO of BT Group, Ian Livingston said: “Our roll-out of fibre broadband is one of the fastest in the world and so it is great to be ahead of what was an already challenging schedule”.
Livingstone added: “The acceleration reflects the success of the programme to date and is testament to the hard work and innovation of our people. Thousands of our engineers are busy installing fibre broadband across the UK at an astonishing pace”.
Readers can find out whether they live within a BT Infinity area or check when it will be available by visiting the BT.com/infinity website.
TalkTalk Phone Line Rental From £9.50 A Month
TalkTalk (TalkTalk.co.uk) phone line rental now costs from just £9.50 a month following the launch of its new Value Line Rental Service.
TalkTalk Value Line Rental gives new and existing customers the opportunity to pay TalkTalk phone line rental for the whole year in one credit or debit card payment of £114.
This option generates a yearly saving of £51.60 and thus delivers an ‘effective’ monthly line rental cost of just £9.50 a month compared with the standard £13.80 a month.
Existing TalkTalk customers who have less than 12 months to run on their existing contract can take the Value Line Rental Service to make the savings and be re-contracted to a new 12 month term in the process.
New customers switching to TalkTalk online at the TalkTalk.co.uk website can save themselves a total of £99 on TalkTalk’s standard pricing by ordering the ‘Essentials’ broadband and calls package for £5 a month and the Value Line Rental Service. Free connection worth £30 is also included.
Interested readers can find out further information and place their order online at the TalkTalk.co.uk website.
Sky Fairytale Deals Offer Half Price Sky Broadband
Sky’s fairytale deals (sky.com/fairytale) now offer 6 months half price Sky Broadband Unlimited to both new and existing Sky customers.
New customers considering switching to Sky Broadband for the 6 months half price offer have two options, one to join with Sky TV and one to join without Sky TV.
New customers joining with Sky TV can get Sky TV, Sky Talk and 6 months half price broadband unlimited for £23.75 a month for the first 6 months, followed by £27.50 a month thereafter (Sky line rental of £12.25 a month is also required).
The Sky TV element of this package includes a free Sky+ box plus over 40 great digital TV channels including Sky1, Sky Living and Sky Atlantic. There’s also more than 200 free to air channels to enjoy.
Sky Talk provides inclusive evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines while Sky Broadband Unlimited offers broadband speeds up to 20Mbps with an unlimited download usage allowance.
New customers wanting to take Sky Broadband Unlimited without Sky TV need only pay £5 a month for the first 6 months, followed by £10 a month thereafter for up to 20Mbps unlimited broadband speeds.
Evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines are included while Sky phone line rental of £12.25 a month is required.
Existing Sky TV customers can take a new Sky Broadband, Calls and Line Rental package and get Sky Broadband Unlimited for just £3.75 a month for the first 6 months, followed by £7.50 a month after.
Existing customers upgrading to this package will also benefit from inclusive evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines.
Sky’s half price unlimited broadband offer for both new and existing customers is only available online. The offer is not available to order over the phone via the Sky call centre.
Readers can find out further information and order online at the sky.com/fairytale website.
