To switch provider or not?

At the moment I am with EE, I pay them £25 per month which gets me unlimited downloads, 7mbps and free evening and weekend calls and includes the BT line rental. I have been with them 3 years now, not had any major issues apart from speeds can be slow in the evenings, Every time my contract is up I end up renewing as I can't find anything cheaper or better.

I live in an area with no LLU at the exchange so line rental is going to always have to be paid to be. Is there anything on par or better than EE?

Plusnet?

Same BTw platform, far superior CS and cheaper. Unlimited Broadband and W/E calls : £19.50 for 9m incl. line rental then £24.50. +£5 for Anytime Calls.

Why do you keep renewing? Don't you just let contract run on with 1m notice?

Hang in tho'! What exchange? PN prices depend on classification of exchange.

Sure thats W&E calls, and not just Evening?

Neither! W/E stands for Weekend.

PN recently changed the inclusive calls from W/E & Eve to W/E.

Ok checked it out, It says

Today's payment

Unlimited Broadband (First month)£16.99
Promotional discount (for 9 months)- £8.50
Router P&P£5.99
Line rental (First month)£14.50
Plusnet Weekends (First Month)Included
Voicemail (1571) (First month)Included
Today's total£28.98
Monthly payment

Unlimited Broadband£16.99
Promotional discount (for 9 months)- £8.50
Line rental£14.50
Plusnet WeekendsIncluded
Voicemail (1571)Included
Monthly total£22.99

However they only do weekend or anytime calls, I use weekends which doesn't seem to be an option.

Evening, weekend and mobile calls included here.
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/home-phone-broadband-extra

Edited by professor973 (Sat 11-May-13 21:05:02)

Ah, OK! It was worth a shot.

But you are in their dearer, Market 1, area so it's £3.50 dearer in the 1st 9m and £7 dearer thereafter than the prices I quoted.

They only in last few days stopped doing inclusive Eve & W/E Calls.

In reply to a post by falko89:

However they only do weekend or anytime calls, I use weekends which doesn't seem to be an option.

I think you have a typo there?

It doesn't show on the website, but Evening and Weekend Calls on Plusnet is still available, but only appears during the signup process. £1.50pm.

There is also a Line rental Saver option. If you way the year up front it is £131.88. That doesn't include the normal Weekend calls, but the E & W at £1.50 is still available. A slightly confusing Table 15 on this page.

In reply to a post by professor973:

Evening, weekend and mobile calls included here.
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/home-phone-broadband-extra

No, weekend calls to mobiles, which isn't quite what you said.

In reply to a post by kasg:

In reply to a post by professor973:

Evening, weekend and mobile calls included here.
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/home-phone-broadband-extra

No, weekend calls to mobiles, which isn't quite what you said.

Wake up please. I should know as my line IS with the Post Office and calls to mobiles and 40 countries are included at weekends., I suggest you read your link carefully,

In reply to a post by professor973:

In reply to a post by kasg:

In reply to a post by professor973:

Evening, weekend and mobile calls included here.
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/home-phone-broadband-extra

No, weekend calls to mobiles, which isn't quite what you said.

Wake up please. I should know as my line IS with the Post Office and calls to mobiles and 40 countries are included at weekends., I suggest you read your link carefully,

Why am I so stupid? Why did I respond to you? All you are doing is agreeing with me, that's what I meant and is definitely not what you said in your original post!

I am sorry, but I think you are stupid. I was responding about no evening calls from another supplier, with the fact that evening calls AND mobile calls are inclusive with the Post Office. Something you then incorrectly contradicted, so one of us is stupid. One guess only! If you bother to read my post, you will see I did not call you stupid, but simply requested you wake up and pay attention.

Edited by professor973 (Sun 12-May-13 18:51:33)

Stop calling people stupid, its easy to misread package pages.

The fact someone has misread a page, does not mean you should belittle them

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Stop calling people stupid, its easy to misread package pages.

The fact someone has misread a page, does not mean you should belittle them

Come on. Be fair. I did not initially call him stupid. I only did after being falsely accused of doing so.

In reply to a post by professor973:

I am sorry, but I think you are stupid. I was responding about no evening calls from another supplier, with the fact that evening calls AND mobiles are inclusive with the Post Office. Something you then incorrectly contradicted, so one of us is stupid. One guess only! If you bother to read my post, you will see I did not call you stupid, but simply requested you wake up and pay attention.

Once again, what you actually said was "Evening, weekend and mobile calls included here." There is only one way to interpret that in standard English, which is evening calls, weekend calls and calls to mobiles. You have even done it again in your latest post: "evening calls AND mobiles are inclusive". Do you really not understand?

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

The fact someone has misread a page, does not mean you should belittle them

Unless I am going mad, I didn't misread the page! If someone could explain to me what I misread I would be grateful.

In reply to a post by professor973:

Come on. Be fair. I did not initially call him stupid. I only did after being falsely accused of doing so.

I didn't accuse you of calling me stupid, I called myself stupid for trying to have a rational discussion with you!

In reply to a post by kasg:

In reply to a post by professor973:

I am sorry, but I think you are stupid. I was responding about no evening calls from another supplier, with the fact that evening calls AND mobiles are inclusive with the Post Office. Something you then incorrectly contradicted, so one of us is stupid. One guess only! If you bother to read my post, you will see I did not call you stupid, but simply requested you wake up and pay attention.

Once again, what you actually said was "Evening, weekend and mobile calls included here." There is only one way to interpret that in standard English, which is evening calls, weekend calls and calls to mobiles. You have even done it again in your latest post: "evening calls AND mobiles are inclusive". Do you really not understand?

AS I SAID - CHECK THE LINK AGAIN UNDER ALSO INCLUDED. I UNDERSTAND, BUT OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T.

No need to shout either.

In reply to a post by professor973:

AS I SAID - CHECK THE LINK AGAIN UNDER ALSO INCLUDED. I UNDERSTAND, BUT OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T.

All I can see on that page is that calls to mobiles are included at weekends, which is what I have been saying all along and you keep contradicting with your use of the word AND.

Landlines, 0845 0870 Evening and weekend included for free

At weekends you also get mobile and international calls (40 countries).

Calls other home customers are free all the time

I am sorry, I am not shouting, I was typing in capitals. It is not my fault if this silly world construes that as shouting. You should know me well enough to know that I will not back down if I think I am correct.

You should also know well enough that shouting at people and other actions are not tolerated around here.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Landlines, 0845 0870 Evening and weekend included for free

At weekends you also get mobile and international calls (40 countries).

Calls other home customers are free all the time

Oh good, that's what I thought it said

Well you can always have another power trip and ban me

No weekend calls to mobiles is what I read.

In reply to a post by professor973:

I am sorry, I am not shouting, I was typing in capitals.

I don't often LOL but I did to that! I stopped short of ROFL though.

In my post I said that weekend calls to mobiles were included.

Are we going to go around the loop again?

In reply to a post by professor973:

No weekend calls to mobiles is what I read.

Well I'm glad that you agree with me at last, thank you (and I assume there was a comma missing from that).

Edited by kasg (Sun 12-May-13 19:07:14)

We rules and we have moderators to keep the place in order, so that people can post questions without the fear of being attacked or made fun of.

If you feel unable to stay within the rules of the site, then either its adapt or get suspended now and then to remind you of the limits

In reply to a post by kasg:

In reply to a post by professor973:

I am sorry, I am not shouting, I was typing in capitals.

I don't often LOL but I did to that! I stopped short of ROFL though.

Good - One thing I cannot stand is when people feel Lol has to be hung onto every statement, even seroius ones. Sis

No weekend calls here, mean none to me, so looks like we are looping!

Edited by professor973 (Sun 12-May-13 19:09:57)

Now I am lost

The website clearly states that calls to mobiles are at a 0p cost at weekends, and 5p per minute during the evenings in the week.

So am I. As I said, I was simply trying to point the OP to a supplier that still offered evening calls as well as W/E in it's package, also mentioning that the PO also included calls to mobiles. I did not state the inclusive mobile calls were 24/7. I then get a reply of 'no weekend mobile calls here' pointing to my link and all hell broke loose from there. Like a game of football, two can watch the same game and see a different one! Anyway, really have better things to do now it's stopped raining.

Edited by professor973 (Sun 12-May-13 19:22:15)

I apologise for replying to the wrong post here, but later posts do not have the option, possibly because of a suspension. I think I have finally worked out what happened here, professor973 appears to be comma-blind and read "No, weekend calls to mobiles, which isn't quite what you said" as "No weekend calls to mobiles which isn't quite what you said". People often protest that spelling, grammar and punctuation isn't important on forums, well sometimes it clearly is. I thought that my emboldening made it pretty clear what I meant.

Edited by kasg (Mon 13-May-13 09:43:14)

It was fairly obvious what went wrong here. There is no point in continuing it and is absolutely no use to the OP.

And I'll close the sub thread again