For what it's worth, you could add on the 'Pro' option for slightly less traffic management / better priority for £5 (still saving £3.50), or upgrade to 'Max Premium' and basically get 0.7 Meg uploads and slightly better pings, although it costs £7.83 per month (still saving £0.67 per month).

I'm working my way up to £5 of referrals (should take about forty years at this rate), then add the Pro option.

/tight fisted etc.

The Ofcom classification rules, from the last consultation, meant it would class as market 2 even where an LLU operator was forecast. It could be still to come, or it could be that the plans never came to fruition.

This exchance has never had any LLU operators nor even a sniff of them. Under 2500 lines, spread over a fairly large area. Most people appear to have signed up with BT, if the SSIDs I see around me are anything to go by.

For a brief time there was a suggestion of a 21CN upgrade due to happen during 2011, but the date has come and gone and there's no longer any mention of it that I can see, so perhaps it has been canned. Of course if an LLU operator does show up, I will certainly consider switching (depending on who it is).

There's a pilot of rural FTTC going on a few miles away, on a neighbouring exchange - perhaps that has something to do with the reclassification.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Perhaps it used to have Orange, and OfCom only update classifications now and then.
Be interesting if they downgrade it next time .

Surely depends on whether Ofcom still classes Orange as a provider of broadband. Samknows might have removed Orange but they are not authoritative and Ofcom need not have done likewise.

Try your negotiating skills with the cancellations dept (or whatever they call it.)

It's called the 'Oh all right then, we DO offer unlimited if you threaten to leave dept', but at £25 PM I'd go for BT proper unlimited.

In reply to a post by m0aur:

I gather you are rather unhappy with Plusnet. How long is it before the end of your minimum term? Are you aware you can cancel at any time if you pay deferred charges such as setup and router, plus £4pm for the oustanding period? You don't have to pay the full subscription for each outstanding month.

I have no tie-in. I gave them a try to get anytime calls after the Post Office before returning to BT proper, though it has worked out more expensive than the PO with all the extra charges and I have lost unlimited. The PO is only a 8Mb service, but the 6.5Mb I got was quite adequate. If I push PN to offer the unlimited at £25 PM, then add line rental, unlimited calls and caller display, I am looking at £42.48p PM, which is just £2 a month away from BT unlimited/anytime, which is hardly worth it against the free Wi-Fi, a decent router and having everything in one place with BT, with nothing to gain at all if PN wanted a tie-in. Been looking at Freeola.

Edited by deleted (Sun 12-Feb-12 16:17:51)

Is Freeola still L2TP Entanet? Or have they moved on?

All Plusnet residential contracts are 10 days notice. There are no other charges except for deferred charges for router etc