Is there a list anywhere of which providers in UK do pay monthly (instead of 12 month) broadband contracts?

There don't seem to be many around...

Many thanks :-)


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Is there a list anywhere of which providers in UK do pay monthly (instead of
12 month) broadband contracts?

There don't seem to be many around...


I pay Wanadoo (Freeserve ) monthly
Blair

thanks - any cancellation fees??

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Is there a list anywhere of which providers in UK do pay monthly (instead of
12 month) broadband contracts?

There don't seem to be many around...


I pay Wanadoo (Freeserve ) monthly
Blair

Have a friend who was offered a free upgrade to the 1mb service last
month and it has been rubbish ever since, real bad. Now they just want
to get rid, Tiscali reckon the don't give MAC codes and the only way
to leave them is to cancel the account and they will release the line
....

Any idea how long all this will take, and what is the best plan of
action?

http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/compareall.htm

seems a 12 month minimum contract though

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Is there a list anywhere of which providers in UK do pay monthly (instead of
12 month) broadband contracts?

There don't seem to be many around...


I pay Wanadoo (Freeserve ) monthly
Blair

Bulldog have a 1-month contract.

Are there any cancellation fees?

Nearly every one (or in fact all) of the "pay monthly" (not 12 months
contract) BB suppliers have a CANCELLATION FEE built in - cheeky or what!!

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Bulldog have a 1-month contract.

Makara@Starfleet wrote:
Try looking at ADSL guide.
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/isps/compare.asp
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Peter wrote:
Tiscalli have supposedly started to trial the issuing of MAC codes,
don't know how true or not this is.

If they don't & your friend is really lucky it could be 2 weeks for the
line to be released & then another couple of weeks (at most) to get the
new ISP to activate their service (it could be a lot shorter than that
but I'm being realistic). The only problem is that Tiscalli had a very
bad reputation for not releasing lines so that could be a bit/lot
longer..

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:06:15 +0100, "Kraftee"
<kraftee@kraftee.plus.nospamming please we're bristish.com> wrote:

She phoned them today and the guy said they will send the MAC in an
email in the next few days, as they are not allowed to give them over
the phone! Yet another story I suppose, we'll see.

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:27:23 +0000, Makara@Starfleet wrote:

And dont post HTML in newsgroups.

Dave

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:55:42 GMT, "Makara@Starfleet"
<makara@ntlworld.com> wrote:

ISPs pay BT £40 + VAT for line activation and they have to pass this
on to you. It's your choice how you pay it.

* In advance, when you join (some ISPs)
* In arrears, when you leave (some other ISPs)
* In small chunks, over 12 months (nearly all the other ISPs)
* In tiny chunks, over 60 months (Plusnet, I believe)

What's cheeky about that?

Jake

Still works out somehwat more expensive pro-rate at say 3 months, than a
full 12 months then

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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:55:42 GMT, "Makara@Starfleet"
<makara@ntlworld.com> wrote:

ISPs pay BT £40 + VAT for line activation and they have to pass this
on to you. It's your choice how you pay it.

* In advance, when you join (some ISPs)
* In arrears, when you leave (some other ISPs)
* In small chunks, over 12 months (nearly all the other ISPs)
* In tiny chunks, over 60 months (Plusnet, I believe)

What's cheeky about that?

Jake

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Makara@Starfleet wrote:

There are lots of us (yes we do monthly contracts).

Generally ISPs offering monthly contracts will charge the full activation
charge up front although some do offer deferred or "free" activation
charging with a termination fee if you leave before they've earned back
the activation fee + a little profit.

We charge it up front and accordingly there are no termination fees with
us.

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No cancellation fee with Bulldog.

Virgin have monthly contracts.

But in the fine print they say that you have to pay a cancellation
charge of £50 if you cancel within the first three months.
This of course is used to pay BT for the activation.

So fair enough really.

you can minimise the effects of this fee by ordering the service using
an Egg Card
Who currently offer £40 cashback on connection to Virgin.

Thanks - great idea about the egg-card cashback. Kind of thing to be aware of.

Cheers!

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Virgin have monthly contracts.

But in the fine print they say that you have to pay a cancellation
charge of £50 if you cancel within the first three months.
This of course is used to pay BT for the activation.

So fair enough really.

you can minimise the effects of this fee by ordering the service using
an Egg Card
Who currently offer £40 cashback on connection to Virgin.

Thanks - although they are quite pricey (yes I know it's 8 meg, but still) - on that note, as they give you a bulldog line (instead of BT) - is one guaranteed to get 8 meg???

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"Lasitha" <lkl@myself.com> wrote in message news:1130332753.512962.322040@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
No cancellation fee with Bulldog.

No Bulldog are still subject to the laws of physics, although they may
wish you to think otherwise.
The limits may be moved down a bit, but a 512k line running on 10dB S/N
will still be unstable if run at/over 1M.

Bill