1p fibre broadband with no contract

https://www.1pbroadband.com/

Never heard of this. Unlimited Fibre 40/10 inc line rental £19.99 per month or Unlimited Fibre 80/20 for £24.99 per month with no contract! Don't know if they using BTw backhual or TalkTalk Business backhual. (I think more likely it will be TalkTalk Business)

Can see Q&A's they will not accepted any tenant customers only those who own their property seem rather strange!

Edited by adslmax (Tue 21-Apr-20 20:30:12)

It appears to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Utility Warehouse.

Same people as 1pMobile. I've been using them for a couple of years for extra mobile lines. Very cheap for a standby service. Never had any problems.

Their strength seems to be in a standby service. So if you just needed a mobile number to receive messages - HINT : texts from banks and others where you don't ever want their associated marketting calls. £10 for 4 months.

I wouldn't use it for my regular mobile service, could get expensive if making outgoing a lot.

Cannot comment on their broadband service.

Why do they call it 'Fibre Broadband' when it isn't?

In reply to a post by clyde123:

Same people as 1pMobile. I've been using them for a couple of years for extra mobile lines. Very cheap for a standby service. Never had any problems.

Their strength seems to be in a standby service. So if you just needed a mobile number to receive messages - HINT : texts from banks and others where you don't ever want their associated marketting calls. £10 for 4 months.

I wouldn't use it for my regular mobile service, could get expensive if making outgoing a lot.

Cannot comment on their broadband service.

If you are going to use it to receive SMS then you might as well get Three's 3-2-1 PAYG.

I topped up £5 years ago and most of the money is still on there. As long as you send a text or make a short call once every 3 months it stays.

The partial fibre service is £19.99/m so it is not possible to pay just 1p per month to receive a broadband service.

In reply to a post by mikejp:

Why do they call it 'Fibre Broadband' when it isn't?

Because all the big ISPs do as well.

I thought that had been corrected by the ASA?

In reply to a post by clyde123:

Same people as 1pMobile. I've been using them for a couple of years for extra mobile lines. Very cheap for a standby service. Never had any problems.

What I meant was that the parent company named at the bottom of the linked website is wholly owned by UW. (It has two issued shares and UW have more than 75% of those. I.e. both).

That parent company has many subsidiary companies of similar 1p names. It was bought by UW in 2017.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 22-Apr-20 10:35:51)

In reply to a post by mikejp:

I thought that had been corrected by the ASA?

Don't think so. CityFibre ran a big "Coppersaurus" campaign to try to persuade everyone, but last I heard, they lost their case at the ASA.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/04/cityfi...

EDIT: however, Ireland's equivalent to the ASA has done it:
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/07/irelan...

Edited by candlerb (Wed 22-Apr-20 10:47:10)