Genealogy Chat

nudged for Val

Irene, going on your figures, you are pay £18 for broad band, £11 for BT line rental and about £11 a month for calls - total of £40 per month? (slightly more actually, but roughly) If you get the free broadband (if your exchange is one of the 70% already changed) at £21 per month you would be saving about £19 per month. I dont know if they are quoting inc. vat or excl. you could check out their website for that. If you are in a country area still waiting for the exchange up date you will be saving about £10 a month (£120 a year) until your exchange is updated then you will be saving about £240 a year.(of course depending on the vat situation) Anyone care to check my maths? And dont forget you would also be free to call international numbers free too.

Ive used talk talk all calls option for about a year now - the £9.99 will cover ALL your national calls, there is no limit and they have no time bands, its the same during peak or off peak- you can talk up to 70 mins then redial and its still free - the same has now been added to this package for international calls (se the list on the talk talk website, it includes USA and Australis) - they will be free too plus you get your high speed broadband free (or a tenner a month if your exchange hasnt been altered yet - in a country area - though you will get it free as soon as your exchange is updated which they reckon will be within 6 months). Dont forget we are talking monthly, not quarterly though. You will pay £21 a month for your broadband, national and international calls and your line rental. (Or £31 if you are one of the 30% in country areas which havent been updated yet). Non geographical numbers, like premium rates ones and mobiles are still charged for.

I never know what to do about changing providers. I pay £17.99 per month to virgin for my broadband and about £75 quarter to BT for my land line.Most of the BT bill in line rental and vat so would it be worth me changing to Talktalk please. Irene

We signed up with TalkTalk BB mid April and were told we would be connected first week in June. We received the modem a few days ago and my wife installed it (I think :o)) yesterday. So they seem to be running ahead of their forecast connection dates. Still waiting for an email from her to make sure it's working, but I know she has been on the Price-Drop TV website so it sounds like she was successful. Derek

was a bit doubtfull at first, so i worked out my bt bill which is quarterly and added my isp payment which i pay monthly so added it quarterly and it worked out to about £80 quarterly!!! the £9.99 for calls? is that what they allow you for calls? if you go over that would the bill go up? not that i use the phone that much! my calls with bt this time were just over £7 is there a catch? sounds to good to be true!

But youd only save that if you get the free broadband, not the tenner one I have to have until my exchange is done, so put in a search on the talk talk site to see if you get it free or not, you only put in your phone no. and post code to check. But if you have rellies abroad, well worth it with the free international calls.

Helen When you put it like that????? Think I'll have a look at the talk talk site and see what they can do then:-) Bev X

Bev Your two bills mean you're paying £31 pound per month for BB and phone, so you could save £120 per year. Thats 17 certificates! My phone bill wasn't much more than yours for the quarter and my Virgin BB was only £12.49 (special deal for 1 year as I was with them for dial up, usually £14.99 I think)

Must admit, I'd looked at this offer to, but not sure if I really would save anything?? I currently pay £17.99 a month to Tesco for BB and then the standard line rental to BT (not sure how much, but last quarters bill was £40.49 including rental and calls). Do you think it would be worth changing over, or should I wait and see what happens with the other companies now? Bev X ps. finally changed my Gas and Electric last week to one provider so hoping to save a packet there too (at least thats the promise they made:-) so now I'm on a roll!!!!

Blimey Michael, are you still using two cans and a bit of string??

My phone bill comes to around £10 per year. I get the general impression that this is somewhat below average.

Getting Broadband was best thing I did; dial up was so SLOW I was waiting for ages for every page to load, plus no-one could get thru to me on the phone. I had to make sure Id plugged the phone line back in, after using pc otherwise my mum would phone in hysterics thinking I was dead, cos she couldnt get thru...

It doesnt seem to be a problem Paul. They arranged the changeover with the BT line and they would do the same with NTL Im sure. I just got a mail saying the date it would change and then I got an automated message phone call saying that my line had changed on the day. Of course I got post from BT saying that another provider had said I wanted to change and asking me to stay but just ignored it.

Hi I checked again this afternoon and although I am already receiving 8Mb broadband with Virgin, they say that it will be another £10 because of the 'local exchange'. Even so it's still a good saving. The only reason I have not signed up yet is because I'd like to arrange a clear break with Virgin/NTL/BT otherwise I'm worried that l may end up with all the monthly charges plus talktalk charges inclusive of the initial talktalk connection charge all at once. Cheers Paul

One of my nephews ran up a huge bill. BT demanded payment was made within 3 months and brother-in-law ended up paying more to BT each month than he was paying for his mortgage! Glad mine haven't reached that age yet but it won't be long.

I tell you what else I like about talk talk Paul. We have a pain in the butt youngest son still living with us. On a couple of occasions he had run up huge bills for hundreds just ringing his friends or services etc on our phone. We wouldnt be aware of this until BT sent their bill for a few hundred quid and then all hell would break loose. A short while after we took the talk talk phone all calls option (about a year back) I had a phone call from them concerned about unsually high number of calls of more than 70 minutes (which is the free limit without hanging up) - it was son ringing friends and mobiles. They gave me an immediate block on calls to mobiles (and us a password to be able to use them and premium rates) and that was the end of that little game. It didnt save us the £50 he had already run up but certainly we didnt get the hundreds of pound calls we used to have now and then with him. I thought that was a very sensible and considerate thing for them to have done.

Paul, it may be worth you signing up now as you would get preference over the others and you would still be saving money on your BT and NTL services until you get the broadband - do you get it free or the tenner? Youd get ALL national and those international ones for £21. What a fantastic bonus for people who have friends/relatives abroad, isnt it. So, you can save a fiver on your line/calls (plus the bonus of international calls thrown in). Seriously guys, if you have the same sort of brain as me, think what all that dosh could buy you (without any guilt) in the way of certs and other genealogical stuff.

Hi What I do like about talktalk is that if I check their website it says they can do my broadband connection in August. Unlike other companies, it appears that they are being honest about when they can connect you.All to often in the past other companies say they can connect you today while you then wait weeks for the connection to take place. Once the rush is over and there's a shorter delay in being BB connected I'll be joining them. Current monthly cost Virgin £25 broadband NTL £15 cover all call charges BT £11 Total £51 http://www(.)talktalk(.)co(.)uk Cheers Paul

Im expecting other service providers to bring out new offers too but I am happy at the mo with talk talk - I mean you cant get cheaper broadband than nothing, can you! Ive had about 6 mails from wanadoo in the last two days offering all these new incentives to stay with them but nothing is a good offer and as I said that last miserable day of talking to gentlemen who I couldnt understand just to sort out what was basically wanadoos problem really miffed me. I understand wanadoo is changing over to Orange shortly so I guess they will try to tie in with a mobile or land line deal aswell. But when my exchange is converted and I get the broadband free I just worked out I will be saving £384 a year!