Monday 1 September 2008

Online TV deals

A step-by-step guide to cutting all your bills - Invest & Save, Money - The Independent: "Phone and broadband providers such as BT and Tiscali are also beginning to offer TV packages via the internet . Comparison site Simplify Digital (www.simplifydigital.co.uk) can help you find a package that is suitable for you. But watch out for hidden costs and restrictions with any bundle – and make sure you know what you're getting."

Broadband costs

A step-by-step guide to cutting all your bills - Invest & Save, Money - The Independent: "Broadband prices have fallen dramatically in the past few years, so if you signed up to your broadband provider more than a year ago, it's likely that you could be paying over the odds.

Many telephone and internet providers now offer several services 'bundled' together at a discount price and these tend to offer the best value for money.

Which? calculates that if you switched from a BT landline with Anytime calls costing £15.45, and BT's Total Broadband Option 1, costing £15.99 (excluding initial promotion), to a Tiscali Anytime Talk landline and broadband bundle, you could shave £132 a year off your bill."

Bad Connection

Residents in a small welsh town are suffering multiple broadband outages .
The village’s broadband outage follows reports earlier this month that the people of Hull suffered similar problems with their broadband, causing them to be without access for the best part of a weekend. It is thought that outage was caused by complications encountered during work being carried out to upgrade the network.
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