It's an interesting choice. I currently have reasonable 15mb/s adsl2+

I'll hopefully have access to FTTC soon, and when it comes will upgrade simply because I want it and can afford it.

I don't need it. I can currently watch HD video via Iplayer or netflix with no buffering, and there is pretty much no other application which needs more speed, except downloading stuff which I do rarely.

In some ways I'll be stupid to spend the extra 120/year.

I also made enquiries into downgrading From FTTC to ADSL due to cost a saving of £22 a month, this what I was told by Plusnet they could not take me on as an ADSL customer until BT Internet moved me off FTTC and onto ADSL but they also said that BT Internet may see this a new contract (moving from one service to another)
So I think I'll just stay on FTTC.

Try to negotiate a lower price, might commit you to a longer contract though. Check out the deals for new customers and use that as leverage

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Try to negotiate a lower price, might commit you to a longer contract though. Check out the deals for new customers and use that as leverage

Yeap have gone around the house's to find a cheaper deal on FTTC and getting at most £3 of a saving but some don't or do the evening and weekend free calls which is important for me when looking at BroadBand & Phone deals the only massive savings is by going back to ADSL (4Mbps) but it would feel like going back to 56K dialup days after using FTTC for so long , there has to be a better deal out there for me

In reply to a post by MrDiode:

I also made enquiries into downgrading From FTTC to ADSL due to cost a saving of £22 a month, this what I was told by Plusnet they could not take me on as an ADSL customer until BT Internet moved me off FTTC and onto ADSL ....

That doesn't sound right to me, so I've posted in the Plusnet Community forums asking about it.

BT will recontract you if you sneeze in the wrong direction, its that silly

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That is a quote from a post in this topic: http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/unhappiness/t/42980...

Read that topic and you'll have some idea what you are up against.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by MrDiode:

I also made enquiries into downgrading From FTTC to ADSL due to cost a saving of £22 a month, this what I was told by Plusnet they could not take me on as an ADSL customer until BT Internet moved me off FTTC and onto ADSL ....

That doesn't sound right to me, so I've posted in the Plusnet Community forums asking about it.

I know it does not sound right, but it came from the horses mouth (plusnet) this is the way they said it, because you used BT Internet to upgrade your line from ADSL to FTTC then only way for us to take you on as a ADSL customer is if you ask your current provider (BT) to move my line onto ADSL and they told me don't say anything to BT about changing provider just get then to move you to ADSL then we can start the migration process.

Edited by deleted (Fri 24-Jan-14 22:22:07)

I assume that cane from Level 1 support. All I've done is query it over there, hoping that on Monday one of the excellent Digital Care Team will either confirm or correct it.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I assume that cane from Level 1 support. All I've done is query it over there, hoping that on Monday one of the excellent Digital Care Team will either confirm or correct it.

If you meen Plusnets sales dept because thats the only contact I have had with them via Phone, they did the home number check and could move to plusnet FTTC in a few days but as posted above the move to ADSL was not going to be so straight forward, and hence why I am still with BT rolling monthly contract.

also Exchange is a BT Wholesale only if that changes anything ?

Edited by deleted (Fri 24-Jan-14 22:54:43)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I assume that cane from Level 1 support. All I've done is query it over there, hoping that on Monday one of the excellent Digital Care Team will either confirm or correct it.

Other option would be a cease and reprovide with associated days disconnected and startup charges. I assume the MAC process doesn't allow regrading.