General broadband discussion

Yea fttc for me. Hopefully full fibre soon.

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That is how Virgin has me. They are the only ones doing anything more than 70Mbps in my area. Few postcodes away about 4 minutes walk, they have OpenReach FTTP.

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We are with Virgin and paying £26.32 for M350 and they have actually surprised me with their renewal offer and are saying I can have M500 for £25 pm and as I have 02 this will double to 1Gb. No price rise this April but will go up to £29 in April 27

We can get BT FTTP but this VM offer is tempting as it slightly undercuts the competition

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Ooof that’s a good deal

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I’m on M250 at £23.

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Managed to bag M250 at £18 going up to £22 next April!

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I was thinking Virgin but fairly sure they aren’t in my area.

Been a few years since I was with them, but once you’ve done battle with the retentions team and turned down their offer and given your notice to cancel, a day or two later you’ll get a call from the real retentions team with an even better offer.

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Money supermarket currently has good Virgin deals with no April 2026 rise, 1gig at £23.99

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This conversation makes me wonder about my giff gaff trial - £15 for 1000/500 but no end point on the contract…

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Feel like I’m just gonna be sat with Sky unless I fork out another ee scancom sim and set the Google WiFi kit up again.

£45 300 with EE. I did it for the new routers (I have 4 to help boost signal around a solid walled flat. It still has trouble.

Expensive and impractical :weary_face:

Can you not Ethernet some of it nicely around the place?

eventually I could but it’s the cost and I don’t want wires on show in the meantime.

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Hyperoptic 500mb/s up and down. Total Wifi. £27/mth.

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I despise all this haggling & price differences, in the name of so called “competition”. In my dreamworld there would be fair, quite static, price bands for all customers. And dont even start me on the way they all make their own trenches in the road rather than sharing resources. The whole thing stinks! Rant over :grinning_face:

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It’s ridiculous, and not just for mobile and broadband. I’m currently with Aviva for car insurance so tried a “special, personalised quote” for home insurance which was £360. Tried Go Compare and got the exact same insurance, with Aviva, for £142.

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Same vibes I had with Scottish widows for a life insurance policy, much cheaper through a comparison site broker, on top of huge commissions they pay to them.

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Also remember if you use a comparison site you can usually get topcashback from the purchase as well especially for insurance.

I’m happy to do some work to get a better deal. I do disagree with constant price rises for existing customers, but I don’t think it’s a company’s responsibility to make sure you’re getting the best deal if you’ve signed up at a price you’re happy with.