Broadband ISP Plusnet Discounts UK FTTP Packages for Summer

Seem good price for FTTP 500/75 @ £35 a month but shame my area is no FTTP available and also 24 months contract might put off people of buying it because of CPI + inflation will rise twice over next 2 years.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/06/broadb...

Aquiss do the same package for £25 for 6 months, £50 for remaining 6 months (12 month contract). Average of £37.50 per month but no in contract price rises which means they are probably going to be on a par with that and only 12 months commitment. Also free IPv4 and IPv6 static IP addresses.

Personally I went for the Aquiss offer after looking around as shorter contract, no in contract price increase, better flexibility and static IP included.

Good price there Aquiss (12 months contract)

Too late for me, they did not give me a good enough offer on an 18-month contract, I was determined not to go on a 24-month contract.

500Mb/s for £35 month is pretty good, but as you said, people have to take into consideration that the price is going to increase twice .

Not bad but strangely BT were offering me 500/75 cheaper than Plusnet in June. £30.99 a month (24 month contract). So I've recently moved from Plusnet FTTC over to BT FTTP. Installation of fibre was relatively smooth and the installer removed the old copper line at the same time.

I didn't take Digital Voice from BT. I separately ported my landline number from Plusnet to A&A which is about £1.40 a month instead of £6 (and I can use my own router and Gigaset phones or softphone). Also working well.

24 months seems to be the norm with fibre contracts now. Presumably takes longer to recoup price of router and install, if included in monthly price?

In contract price increases are also becoming the norm, but there is no real reason for this given the ISP has a guarenteed income for the contract length, especially as it usually adds it's own increase on top of the RPI one!

In reply to a post by hk11:

24 months seems to be the norm with fibre contracts now. Presumably takes longer to recoup price of router and install, if included in monthly price?

No, because by that logic, the price would *drop* at the end of the contract period when these costs have been recouped, instead of going up.

They do it because they can get away with it. It's unfortunately a symptom of cut-throat competition in the marketplace that they'll do anything which makes their prices *appear* fractionally lower than the competition at the time that you sign up: whether that be having prices automatically increase within the contract term, or longer contract terms, or both.

And a lot of people buy purely on price. If the average consumer was given the option of paying a few pounds more a month for a higher quality router, better customer support, and no price increase once the contract ended you would get a lot of people saying that it appeals to them, but most of the time they are lying and will buy the cheapest service they can find and often expect some sort of introductory benefit on top of that as well, such as cashback or a gift card. The only way these deals where people are paid £100 cash for signing up to service that might not even have that much margin in it over the contract period exist is by hoping that people forget to do anything when the initial contract period ends.

I was trying to be generous.

I think you are right: just greedy and underhand.

Whatever the reason: it is all wrong.

You should get a fair service for a fair price. All these "hidden" extras like the mid term price increase and I now see "free" add ons that you are later charged for should be made illegal.