Broadband Prices Fall

It has been a happy turn out for the cash-strapped internet users for they could now, by switching providers, save more than GBP100 per year, as the prices have fallen to below GBP 6 per month, for the cheapest broadband packages. As a good number of companies are competing to promote broadband packages of higher speeds that come at a price, researches say that a large number of households are in the look out for broadband packages that lowered their bills.

Here, a few companies, such as TalkTalk, Plusnet and O2 are found targeting this part of the market by showcasing highly cheap looking deals. A subsidiary of BT, Plusnet had launched a GBP 5.99 broadband package that did not attach a phone package, a few weeks back. A remarkable aspect one gets to see here is that to have a price that low, the user did not have to sacrifice the service speeds.

Many hold the opinion that Plusnet’s Value offer is the offer to beat, as it provides the users speeds of up to 8Mbps, apart from a monthly, up to 10GB usage allowance. This package includes a wireless router and the connection charges are also waived. The catches here however are; an eighteen month contract, and the fact that only eighty percent of the UK customers are availed this package.

Meanwhile, TalkTalk displays a broadband and phone Package for GBP6.49 per month, although to gain this offer householders had to switch to the company’s line rental. The disadvantage of a TalkTalk cheap broadband package according to the experts, is their poor show in customer service surveys. Alternatively, the O2 cheap broadband package of GBP7.50 per month is a fixed line service, which has topped many surveys held on customer satisfaction.

However, the cheapest broadband deal for short contract comes from AOL Broadband. Here a one month contract costs just GBP4.99 that rises to GBP9.99 at the completion of three months. Since, it is not a line rental this deal asks the subscriber to take the phone calls package of AOL, as well.