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)

See bt.com FTTC products. All called Fibre this or that.

And their call charge claims are ridiculous too ...

They claim cheapest UK calls at 1p/minute - I currently pay 0.5p. They also add a 10p call set up, my provider charges 1p

from 19p for International calls - I pay 0.6p to te US for landline and 1.2 for mobile, Germany and Italy, 0.3p which is less than the UK.

What supplier do you use?

Port5060 https://www.port5060.net/call-charges/

Suits me with the cheap US rates and a few others

Thanks

Pulse8broadband call charges are very low too. I had my line with them when on BT Wholesale backhaul with AAISP.

1ppm inc vat daytime. 0.08ppm evenings and night-time. No call setup charges. Add £1pm for caller display. (Unless things have changed recently).

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 22-Apr-20 16:39:17)

In reply to a post by MHC:

Port5060 https://www.port5060.net/call-charges/ Suits me with the cheap US rates and a few others

Impressively cheap but it looks like a £3 a month minimum cover charge? Bit too rich for me...

I've used localphone.com a bit who are ok for uk rates but the quality is a bit average. Mainly they are just for me to catch the rare person who dares to make an outgoing landline call. I've been on £2 starter credit for about two years so its working ok so far...

I pay only 0.7p/min to UK numbers and 0.9p to US landlines and £ 0.009 to US mobiles. 0.9p to UK mobiles with (some) others costing a lot more at 10.3p. There is a call setup charge which shows as 3.9 cent so it looks like it charges in US dollars which is something like 2.7p. They do provide SMS texts but I doubt most would use that, they cost 4.3p each. I have been using them for some years.


The UK calls are very slightly higher than that other service, 0.7p compared with 0.5p, but this one does not charge a monthly fee of £3.60. Call credits need to be purchased to use it and I purchased the minimum €5 of credits a couple of years ago and still have €2.44 left.

So you are buying in euros, paying in dollars, and comparing with sterling 😵. In a thread where the conversation ended in April 2020 .

PS: A euro is comprised of 100 cents, so your assumption about dollars is probably mistaken and you are paying in euros.

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voice services.

Urgh i've read some garbage PR cack in my time but that is some of the worst drivel i've EVER read

The rates page shows the figures in the currency selected so it shows the prices in £/pence for me but at the bottom of the page where it shows the connection charge it says 3.9 cents. I did not realise it was related to € but these companies do seem to be European so that makes sense. Therefore it will be about 3.5 pence for the connection charge.

BTW there is now a contract of 18 months.

Edited by Mr_Wonderful (Thu 17-Jun-21 13:22:54)