I feel for you, Cupra. I mean, years ago, who cared (except those, like me, whose business depended on it)? But these days it’s getting harder and harder to just run our normal lives without ’net access. For instance, reluctant though I am (and believe me, thats VERY reluctant) to do banking online, despite the convenience, it’s now bordering on impossible, and inconvenient as hell, to avoid. After all the branch closures, I think my nearest actual bank branh is on a tiny outer planet round a minor star in a far distant galaxy, behind a giant midden heap, in the 3rd floor sub-basement behind the door marked “beware carnivorous plants, and the dragon” (nod to blatant rip-off of HHGTTG).

Which is why the last couple of times I’ve changed, I’ve ordered the new service and only AFTER it’s up and running do I give notice to the old.

And yes, obviously, that means at least one month, maybe more, paying for both. Which puts a large portion of sand down the front of my swimming trunks, but overall was worth it. The money I mean, not the sand. But it does ensure not ending up without service entirely if, for any reason, they don’t install when they promise. It’s worth it (to me, YMMV) to do that.

    CoffeePhilE - this was one of the reasons I ended up with Virgin. I moved house, Vodafone at the time said it would take approx. 2 months to connect me on my new address. Err…. To flip a switch? The house had Sky before, and it has a BT phone line and everything. I even tried Sky and it wasn’t much better. So I phoned up Virgin who said they could wire me up within a couple of weeks, from scratch. And here we are.

    LMSC - thanks for this. I’ll be on the phone with them on Monday. The whole thing doesn’t make any sense, as in, the business BB is half the price if compared to the domestic one! Crazy!

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      MediumRoastSteam If gig BB is £60 inc VAT on the retail, it is worth it should there be a need.

      Data warning now, 80% of my data used…arse

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      Cuprajake Plusnet offer unlimited fibre for £22 pm.

      How is 80% of your data used, or do you mean your phone contract….? If so there are some right good phone deals around 🤣Smart have an unlimited data calls and whatever plan for £18 per month aaaand unlimited tethering… in the UK. if you use the link below you and I both get 1 month free, so you will save me £5 on my scrooge smarty mobile plan. They really have been good for me.

      i.smarty.co.uk/pP891J

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        Yeah my mobile data, my plan is 6g for £5

        Next month 20g for £8

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          @CoffeePhilE that’s what I did the sky doesn’t finish till aug 11th.

          Yet here I am lol.

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            And I reckon I can’t get through on the phone because

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            • LMSC replied to this.

              DavecUK that’s not a data plan, that’s making it look as if you have a data plan 🤣

              My mobile plan is to plan on not using mobile data … unless I really have to. Like when I set up to fly the drone. Come to think about it, that’s about the only time, ’cos I need location services turned on for auto-return. Everything else gets done via wifi.

              But then, my plan for the mobile is it’s for little more than emergency contact, in or out, on an almost cost-less PAYG plan …. or Don’t-PAYG, in my case. Maybe Barely-PAYG.

              Tight git? Wot, me? 😄

              Cuprajake This pay deal reminds of the rough treatment our government has given to the Jr Doctors. These Jr doctors have been excluded from the recent pay deal of 5% to all medical professionals They just got 2% before Covid. One stays as junior doctor unless become a consultant. It’s not only joke and an insult to these tens of thousands of junior doctors who work tirelessly day and night to save our lives. Add the selfless service these guys since Covid, it is really rubbing salt in the wound.

              It gets better.

              • Another profession that gets insulted. Their pay was literally frozen since Mr Cameron became the PM and since then are being given 1% pay hike in between.
              • A few years ago, the government allowed the universities to double the graduate medicine intake from 20 to 40 - since 2020 I think. The common sense would be to open up / create additional jobs in the NHS. No, why would we? We keep the job vacancies constant and make the extra (newly qualified) doctors sit at home, deny critical foundational trainings and leave them high and dry searching for a locum jobs.
              • Why wouldn’t the NHS and the teaching profession be in a mess that we have created on our own?

              Edit:

              The current mess we are all in is going to require a divine intervention, if there is one. We need to save a few pounds here and there so that we can surrender them to the energy companies at a stratosphere rate!

                This thread has been really helpful.

                We’re now out of contract with BT so I’m cancelling BTTV saving £7 and am going to switch to giffgaff saving another £7.

                We’ve just had fibre installed along our road so I’ll look into option there. The biggest concern is how they get it from the street into where I want it.

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                  LMSC Will it be an excuse to privatise the NHS section by section. The excuse being that they cannot cope and are failing the public. I dare not ask if this would go to anyone associated with any of our parliament, just like the PPE did. Call me cynical.

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                    DavecUK i.smarty.co.uk/pP891J

                    Who are these guys? Never heard them before. I think it is powered by 3. The £18 tariff is a good deal.

                    My wife is with 3, who gets about 20GB for a tenner. Myself and my daughter are with o2. We pay £16.86 for 25G and £21.86 for 120G respectively. Super stable and excellent coverage even in remote places. I would hesitate to change, especially my daughter’s as her mobile is business critical in her daily doctors’ job. The last thing we need is a lack of coverage when she is at the hospital. :-)

                    Edit :

                    Their coverage in the UK

                      LMSC Smarty uses the 3 Network, I have the right old git plan….£6 per month with 1 GB data, but £1 back if you don’t use any data. So for me £5 per month, as many calls and texts as I want and free roaming across Europe.. I can even text people in UK when roaming. You could change and notice no difference.

                      My son is a rolling monthly one

                      Soon as the broadband is active I get unlimited calls/txt and 20gb for £8 pm I didn’t think that bad tbh.

                      Only reason I wasn’t on that quicker is I let the Mrs and son have the first two Sims on the account. Now we have/will have plusnet BB we can have up to 8 Sims on that deal

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                        Cuprajake Soon as the broadband is active I get unlimited calls/txt and 20gb for £8 pm I didn’t think that bad tbh.

                        That seems very good….free roaming as well?

                        Plusnet seems designed for Northerners…who are even tighter than me 🤣

                        Not sure on roaming, plusnet is just bt

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