Pipex price reductions!

Radiation · 21 Jul 2006 at 19:36

About time too but could it be a case of too little too late with sky's new offer on?, these are the broadband prices with no phone calls rubbish.

£24.99 - Max - Uncapped.
£19.99 - Max - 15GB
£14.99 - Max - 2GB

Phil99 · 21 Jul 2006 at 19:42

I'm assuming a fair use policy is in place for the "unlimited" option?

Radiation · 21 Jul 2006 at 19:47

Phil99 said:
I'm assuming a fair use policy is in place for the "unlimited" option?

Yeah as is common these days.

Al Vallario · 21 Jul 2006 at 19:59

Any word on what people paying through the roof for legacy packages (Solo1000) are going to be able to do? Bit ticked off that I'm paying £23.99/month for unlimited (FUP, etc.) 1Mbps when new customers are getting unlimited 8Mbps for £24.99/month...

Radiation · 21 Jul 2006 at 20:09

Al Vallario said:
Any word on what people paying through the roof for legacy packages (Solo1000) are going to be able to do? Bit ticked off that I'm paying £23.99/month for unlimited (FUP, etc.) 1Mbps when new customers are getting unlimited 8Mbps for £24.99/month...

Im in the same boat and pretty sure we have to regrade and end up in another 12 month contract plus pay for newsgroups and lose some emails if they're unused, no care for long time customers or loyalty it seems.

Still maybe we can hope for a free regrade without loosing anything at some point?

Felix · 21 Jul 2006 at 21:28

Ditto but give the sale a call and they have other offers.

james2004 · 21 Jul 2006 at 21:32

Give Pipex a ring they are offering a regrade for some existing customers. I phoned up and was offered an upgrade free of charge to the Pipex Go 8mb package

killer_uk · 21 Jul 2006 at 23:43

Any idea what the Fair usage policy is on this? I tried to find out, but can't find anything useful on their website.

Radiation · 22 Jul 2006 at 14:06

I read P2P is throttled 24/7 to something really poor like 20KBs, theres an unknown gigabyte limit that seems to be anything and different for different people and when its passed the whole connection gets throttled, this happened a while back so i don't know if they still enforced it as much, there may be more but thats all i know.

Greenlizard0 · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:15

Radiation said:
About time too but could it be a case of too little too late with sky's new offer on?, these are the broadband prices with no phone calls rubbish.

£24.99 - Max - Uncapped.
£19.99 - Max - 15GB
£14.99 - Max - 2GB

Are those prices only for new people who sign up for them? Or does my current uncapped monthly bill come down?

Greenlizard0 · 25 Jul 2006 at 22:17

Radiation said:
I read P2P is throttled 24/7 to something really poor like 20KBs, theres an unknown gigabyte limit that seems to be anything and different for different people and when its passed the whole connection gets throttled, this happened a while back so i don't know if they still enforced it as much, there may be more but thats all i know.

It sucks ass. Totally. When I signed up with them I was told that the fair use policy only kicks in at peak times. :mad:

z0mbi3 · 26 Jul 2006 at 10:25

greenlizard0 said:
Are those prices only for new people who sign up for them? Or does my current uncapped monthly bill come down?

Call them up to make sure they do it for you. I just did and am now on 24.99.

Radiation · 26 Jul 2006 at 11:41

greenlizard0 said:
Are those prices only for new people who sign up for them? Or does my current uncapped monthly bill come down?

They tend to leave you on your current package unless you ask to regrade and if you do you will be on a new 12 month contract and lose some unused emails and free newsgroups as well.