- ISDN conversion while still on contract
- Posted by Gareth Attrill on July 31st, 2003
Hi,
My exchange is being upgraded to ADSL on the 22nd October and I need
to start thinking about converting my ISDN setup.
Due to BT saying "exchange unviable, unviable, still unviable" and
nothing on the horizon I signed up for ISDN and will still have about
6 months on the contract come Oct 22nd.
I know BT will waive the remaining term of the contract if you sign up
for one of their packages, but does anybody know of another company
that does the same? It sounds very fishy that only BT are willing to
do this, but even having them at £27/month it's cheaper than paying
£140ish to end the contract and signing up with a cheaper supplier.
Gareth
- Posted by Jason Clifford on August 1st, 2003
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Sunil Sood wrote:
How can any other ISP offer it? The ISDN contract is with BT and only BT
can waive their rights under the remaining term of the contract.
Jason Clifford
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- Posted by Sunil Sood on August 1st, 2003
"Jason Clifford" <jason@ukpost.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0308011225230.10418-100000@yeoshua.ukpost.com...
BT are not "waiving their rights to the rest of the contract" - instead
the relevant ISP is "buying out" the remainder of the contract from the
BT Home Highway/ISDN part within BT
The BT ISP can do this as they charge a slightly higher monthly fee than
other ISP's - hence they have some money to "play with" - other ISP's
choose not to "buy out" ISDN contracts and instead offer lower monthly
fees...
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Jason Clifford on August 1st, 2003
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Sunil Sood wrote:
Can you explain how an extra £5 or so can buy out the > £100 per month of
ISDN?
Jason Clifford
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- Posted by Sunil Sood on August 1st, 2003
"Jason Clifford" <jason@ukpost.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0308011322410.11505-100000@yeoshua.ukpost.com...
Hmm - £5 extra per customer/month - while less than 1 in 20 customers is
an ISDN conversion ?
Besides last time I looked ISDN (well HH anyway) was a lot less than
£100 (closer to £25/30) per month.
Regards
Sunil
- Posted by Jonathan Buzzard on August 1st, 2003
In article <bgdlvm$n24gh$1@id-20959.news.uni-berlin.de>,
"Sunil Sood" <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
[SNIP]
You do of course realize that the buying out of the contract only
pushes money around internally in BT? This is how BT Openworld can
afford it and no other ISP can.
JAB.
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- Posted by Bob Eager on August 1st, 2003
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 12:23:23 UTC, Jason Clifford <jason@ukpost.com>
wrote:
I'd start by explaining that ISDN is œ100 or so per QUARTER...
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- Posted by Jonathan Buzzard on August 2nd, 2003
In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-y0flTF8QysHo@rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
rde42@spamcop.net (Bob Eager) writes:
Actually when considering the switch from ISDN to ADSL you have to
look at the difference between HH and an ordinary POTS line. Immediately
the cost drops by around 50%.
JAB.
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- Posted by Jonathan Buzzard on August 2nd, 2003
In article <bgeree$o3gtc$3@id-20959.news.uni-berlin.de>,
"Sunil Sood" <news@soods.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
[SNIP]
Then you are being extremelly dim.
JAB.
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Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195
