Latest Broadband Deals
Sky Broadband Deals For Existing Sky TV Customers
Sky (sky.com/existing) has launched a 6 months half price unlimited broadband offer for its existing Sky TV customers.
Exclusively available online at the sky.com/existing website, existing Sky TV customers can get truly unlimited Sky Broadband with speeds up to 20Mbps for just £3.75 a month for the first 6 months (£7.50 a month thereafter).
With Sky Broadband Unlimited there’s no download usage allowances or caps which means customers can download pretty much all the music and movies they love without being charged extra.
The 6 months half price broadband deal also includes free evening & weekend phone calls to UK landlines, while the broadband also includes a free wireless router worth £50, around the clock technical support and a free 12 month trial of McAfee’s Internet Security Suite.
Existing Sky TV customers will need to switch their phone line rental to Sky in order to get this deal. Sky’s monthly phone line rental charge is £12.25, which is cheaper than BT’s and Virgin Media’s (both £13.90 a month).
New Sky TV customers or existing Sky Broadband Unlimited, Sky Talk or Sky Phone Line Rental customers do not qualify for this deal.
Interested readers can find out more at the sky.com/existing website.
Orange Broadband Tops Ofcom Customer Satisfaction
Orange Broadband (www.orange.co.uk/broadband) has been rated as the UK’s number one for customer satisfaction in a recent Ofcom survey of 3,000 customers from the top 5 broadband providers in the UK.
Orange had the lowest customer satisfaction levels for its home broadband service back in 2009 with 42%, it now tops the board with 76% following significant investment in how it delivers broadband to its customers.
Commenting on the news, a spokesperson from Orange said: “Since 2009 we have been working hard to make significant improvements in the area of home broadband, with a particular focus on improving the customer experience. We have been investing in the way we deliver broadband to our customers, ensuring greater reliability and speed of service”.
They continued: “We continue to offer the best home broadband value in the market and look forward to providing further service and experience improvements for our customers in the future”.
Orange currently offer its existing mobile phone customers 3 months free home broadband and calls, followed by a discounted £7.50 per month thereafter.
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Non Orange mobile phone customers need to pay £12.50 a month for the package which offers up to 20Mbps unlimited home broadband speeds together with unlimited evening & weekend phone calls to UK landlines.
Extras like free HMV vouchers and 2-for-1 cinema tickets with Orange Wednesdays are also included with all EE Broadband packages.
Readers can find out further information about Orange Home Broadband at the www.orange.co.uk/broadband website.
Virgin Media Half Price For 6 Months & £60 Cashback
Virgin Media has unveiled a half price for 6 months offer across all its broadband, phone and TV bundles together with an additional £60 cashback when the order is made online at the www.virginmedia.com/bundles website.
The 6 months half price offer also applies to Virgin Media’s broadband and calls bundles (prices start from £6.75 a month), where an additional £30 cashback is available when the order is placed online.
There’s never been a better time to switch to Virgin Media, with new customers able to get a TV, Broadband and Calls bundle, offering 65 digital TV channels, 10Mbps broadband speeds & unlimited weekend calls to UK landlines and Virgin Mobiles, from as little as £10 a month.
As proved by Ofcom for the 3rd year running, Virgin Media offer the UK’s fastest broadband with its up 10Mbps fibre optic broadband service providing real download speeds of 9.6Mbps, while its up to 50Mbps broadband delivers real speeds of 45.5Mbps.
The company’s digital TV service includes its HD and 3D ready set top box and offers up to 160 Sky, Freeview and terrrestrial TV channels to watch.
Many great HD channels are also included for no extra monthly fee on Virgin’s top TV package known as TV XL, while there’s a charge of £5 a month for HD channels on its TV size M+ and L packages.
All Virgin Media digital TV packages include a free Catch Up TV service where viewers can use the likes of the BBC iPlayer, ITV Net Player, 4oD and Demand 5 on their own television.
Customers can also add premium digital TV channels like Sky Sports (1,2,3 & 4, plus HD1 & HD2) and Sky Movies for an additional monthly fee.
New customers switching to a Virgin Media bundle will need to switch their phone line to Virgin and stop paying BT for their existing line rental.
Virgin phone includes unlimited weekend phone calls to UK landlines and all Virgin mobiles, while handy features like voicemail, call waiting and call divert are also available.
Interested readers can find out more information and order a Virgin Media bundle online at the www.virginmedia.com/bundles website.
Orange Home Broadband Offers Unlimited Data Usage
Orange (www.orange.co.uk/broadband) Home Broadband now offers completely unlimited broadband usage following the removal of its fair usage policy across all its unlimited home broadband packages.
The move means its home broadband customers can use as many GB’s of data as they like without being charged more than the standard monthly package price.
The decision to remove the fair usage policy further simplifies the EE Broadband proposition and cements the company’s position as the UK’s best value unlimited broadband and calls provider.
It also coincides with Orange’s ‘No Tricks Just Treats’ Home Broadband campaign which has been developed to highlight the broadband fears faced by customers, which include hidden connection fees and additional charges for exceeding data usage allowances.
The campaign goes on to compare these fears with the transparent pricing and valuable rewards like 2-for-1 cinema tickets they can expect from Orange’s Home Broadband service.
Existing Orange mobile phone customers can get currently get Orange’s Home Broadband and Evening & Weekend Calls package free for 3 months, followed by a discounted £7.50 a month thereafter. The £30 broadband connection fee is also being waived.
Treats like 2-for-1 cinema tickets with Orange Wednesdays and 2-for-1 at Pizza Express all apply when customers sign up for Orange Home Broadband by calling Orange on 0800 072 4136.
Interested readers can find out more about the Orange Broadband packages at the www.orange.co.uk/broadband website.
BT Vision Essential TV Package Just £4 A Month
BT (www.BT.com/btvision) has revamped its digital TV offering with the launch of the BT Vision Essential package which costs just £4 a month (that’s TV for less than 13p a day).
The BT Vision Essential package includes a free BT Vision digital TV recorder box worth £199, which enables users to pause, rewind and record live TV. There’s also 50 Freeview TV channels and 20 radio channels to enjoy, plus a Catch-up TV service which gives users access to the BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5 on their telly.
Subscribers to BT’s TV Essential package will also have pay per view access to all BT on demand viewing packs including Vision Kids, Vision Film Club, Vision Sport and Vision Music. This amounts to over 5,300 programmes, which are available to watch on demand from just 50p a show.
Existing BT Broadband customers can add the BT Vision Essential package for just £4 a month and can do this online at the www.BT.com website.
New customers switching to BT online at www.BT.com can take advantage of BT’s current 4 months free broadband and calls Sunshine Deal and get up to 20Mbps broadband, anytime phone calls, plus the BT Vision Essential package for just £4 a month for the first 4 months (£20 a month thereafter).
A one-off activation fee of £30 applies to BT Vision, while both new and existing BT Broadband customers also have the option of adding Sky Sports 1 or 2 for an additional £12.30 a month. Both Sky Sports channels are available for an additional £17.40 a month.
Interested readers can find out further information on the BT Vision Essential package at the www.BT.com/btvision website.
Plus.net/4months Offers 4 Months Free Broadband
Plusnet (www.plus.net/4months) has unveiled a 4 months free broadband offer for new customers who order online Plusnet Value Broadband with a Plusnet phone service.
The incentive means that new customers switching to Plusnet can enjoy 4 months free broadband and evening & weekend phone calls, before the price reverts to the standard £6.49 a month.
Plusnet phone line rental of £11.99 a month is required from the start of the 12 month contract period – which compares favourably against the monthly phone line rental costs of Virgin Media (£13.90p/m), TalkTalk (£12.60p/m) and Sky (£12.25p/m).
Plusnet Value Broadband provides up to 20Mbps download speeds together with a 10GB monthly data usage allowance. An additional unlimited download usage allowance is available between the hours of midnight and 8am.
A free wireless router together with award-winning, UK based, technical support is included, whilst there’s also options to take the broadband without a contract tie-in, provided customers pay an upfront fee of up to £65.
Plusnet’s anytime phone calls package is also available with the 4 months free broadband promotion. New customers opting for this will need to pay £3.50 a month for the first 4 months, followed by £9.99 a month thereafter.
Interested readers can find out more and order online at the www.plus.net/4months website.
