Has Anyone Noticed Broadband Prices Have Come Down?

Not seen any price decreases they are still higher then when I signed up.

If some have dropped I bet its to get people in before the price hike in a few months.

My parents no one deals up at end of this year real shame £30 per month fixed price for 24 months was a bargain.
 
If you want Openreach services to be cheaper then lobby Ofcom to let them do that. Currently their prices are controlled to ensure altnets have half a chance.
 
Ignoring inflation it's been £25 as far as back as i remember here. Sure per bit it's cheaper, but then most tech now is better per pixel or whatever.

I've had a fibre line outside the house for a few years now, it isn't £25 or less, so not interested.
 
Sky wrote to me recently stating my discounts on my poverty grade broadband (superfast @ 70mb lol) were almost up and my monthly price of £38 will be affected. However the deal offered was £35 a month. I was rather confused but signed up for 24months as I sky is all I can get here.

I don't believe any mobile router+sim will offer me such consistent speeds either.
 
Are you in a bundle with Sky or similar? £35 for FTTC is expensive, you can get it around £10 cheaper without really having to try.
 
I'm in a Virgin Media mafia street, can't get anything else above 50mbps. North London, not even in the boonies. People round the corner can get 1gbps for less than I pay VM for 150mbps
 
Just renewed my BB. Was on 400mbps for £20 with Ogi. At no point I was told it was an introductory offer. If I let it continue it would go up to £52.

Managed to get 500mbps for £34 but had to sign up for 24 months. I guess now I know what their retention model is :rolleyes:
 
I don't know what I pay to Virgin because I still get their TV/BB/Phone package of which nobody uses or cares for the stupid landline phone. I think we pay about £85 including all the sports and what not, and the BB is 300 down, about 30 up. I can't fault the BB service to be fair.
 
Caged said:
Are you in a bundle with Sky or similar? £35 for FTTC is expensive, you can get it around £10 cheaper without really having to try.
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Sadly yes. I'm in NW London and we've got community fibre etc just outside but I live in a 3 floor building so thanks to the internal wiring and 'Uk regs' the wiring is frightening. It restricts us to only Openreach solutions and slow speeds.
 
Kainz said:
Sky wrote to me recently stating my discounts on my poverty grade broadband (superfast @ 70mb lol) were almost up and my monthly price of £38 will be affected. However the deal offered was £35 a month. I was rather confused but signed up for 24months as I sky is all I can get here.

I don't believe any mobile router+sim will offer me such consistent speeds either.
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I would be very careful of Sky.

My sister was using Sky VDSL at £35 a month up until I checked and found out that she could get full fibre. In fact, even Sky could supply that to the property but they never told her. She was so annoyed she moved to another supplier and got 100Mbps for less than Sky were charging for a very flaky service. That was Openreach too, so perhaps there is some hope for you.
 
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We’ve gone from one local fibre company rolling out with government rural connection vouchers to there being six or seven different companies digging up our pavements to lay fibre (cause they obviously can’t plan to do it together). Crazily cheap 2.5Gbps is available to be signed up for now, though I don’t know if it’s actually live yet or not. My particular provider are going to be offering it from May this year.
 
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platypus said:
We’ve gone from one local fibre company rolling out with government rural connection vouchers to there being six or seven different companies digging up our pavements to lay fibre (cause they obviously can’t plan to do it together). Crazily cheap 2.5Gbps is available to be signed up for now, though I don’t know if it’s actually live yet or not. My particular provider are going to be offering it from May this year.
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Personally, I think Broadband is over-priced. And especially when they went to fibre. When you stop to think that you are paying a minimum of £360 a year and probably a lot more (I suspect the average is about £400 per year), for just a connection to the internet... well, to me, that is way too much. I mean, on top of that you have to pay for any other services.
 
SpellowHouse said:
Personally, I think Broadband is over-priced. And especially when they went to fibre. When you stop to think that you are paying a minimum of £360 a year and probably a lot more (I suspect the average is about £400 per year), for just a connection to the internet... well, to me, that is way too much. I mean, on top of that you have to pay for any other services.
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Look up how much fibre costs in the good old US of A.
 
At the end of the day, the cost to installing to your house would have been thousands, potentially 10’s of thousands if you are rural.

They’ve got to get that back eventually.
 
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Martin is selling a niche product, and realistically, he's the product. If you've chosen him, you've likely done so because you value direct access to a level of technical knowledge, flexibility and support that simply isn't found in most consumer ISP's on the front line, and rarely on the second line. If you want cheap, brave Vodafone or TalkTalk, there are very obvious reasons why that's a horrible idea, yet lots of people do it and find it acceptable.
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I have been tempted to move over because of the 2.5gbs package - currently with no one and its been fine. Just the allurement of better speeds, the problem for me is justifying the increased monthly costs as well as buying 2.5G capable equipment. Realistically 1gbps is perfectly fine for heavy use such as mine.
 
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