Trunk networks

Hi

My BT contract is up and I am looking for a good deal. Trunk networks are offering 80:20 for £28 per month. This seems like a good deal but I don't know the company. Are they reliable? Who else should I be looking at?

All advice gratefully recieved.

Many thanks.

Wg

i never heard of them I went to their site to see what they offered. The price for FTTC at 40Mb/s they said was £37, but when I done a postcode check it came up at £25 and then it all went to pot, for some reason the site would not load anything up again, If it is £25 then that is good, certainly for a 1-month contract.

i noticed they also supply SOGEA, but the price difference is about a quid, so may as well go for the normal FTTC,

I'm seeing the 80/20 service at £28 per month plus a phone line at £12 per month, or SOGEA for £39 per month, on a 12 month term.

Your fttc download speed range 35Mbit/s - 57.12Mbit/sNetwork: Network On Net , Market Location: B
FTTC4010 FTTC 40/10 £25.00 (pcm) £0.00 (install) 12 (months)
FTTC8020 FTTC 80/20 £28.00 (pcm) £0.00 (install) 12 (months)
More technical information

Sorry, it is 12 months, not 1, I have no idea where I got one from, but even so it is still pretty good. There is a load of phone packages which I will not require.,

That info is if I put my phone number and address in, they can ring that number as much as they like, no phone connected to it.

Does that include line rental? If not then it isn't much better than other suppliers and possibly worse than some.

It does look like the line rental is seperate, I hadn't realised that, if so it does make it on the more expensive side. I suppose part of the attraction was the router they're offering.

I don't see the £28. I see £40 for 80/20 FTTC. Figures that are no longer permitted by Ofcom on providers' Home Pages, by the way.

Also:- "Our broadband products and prices are listed above. All prices include VAT and for FTTC and ADSL2 include telephone line rental. Use the broadband availability checker to see what broadband products are available at your postcode".

Ah - I've just found your £28, when going as far as entering an address. That's bad! Also not allowed. Although they do at that point give proper speed estimates as well.

The "i" information button on the 80/20 button is amusing (my underlining):- "FTTC 80/20 is "Fibre To The Cabinet" and is fibre from the exchange to a local green cabinet. The last leg is delivered to your business or home over copper. FTTC 40/10 delivers speeds of up to 80Mb/s down and up to 20Mb/s up".

Remember I said I entered an address above. I had clicked that I do not have a phone line. (Which happens to be true). Clicking the "i" button against "Install" states "No further information available at this time". However, checking back I see in the main table an install cost of £94.80 is indicated by a question mark, which I hadn't spotted previously when on the Home Page. Still no mention of rental though.

I have posted the following elsewhere:-

Re Trunk Networks

A very small company registered in Scotland in 2008, in effect by two of the current directors. Both of whom give their occupation as IT Consultant.

Their Head Office appears to be in Uckfield, but that might just be their accountant. The registered office is at 55-57 West High Street, Inverurie, AB51 3QQ. Their private addresses aren't available as far as I can see. (That's a bit weird).

From the link above you can go to its financials and in the first PDF see the balance sheet values for their accounting years ending October 2018 and 2019. Earlier if you look at earlier PDFs.

If you register for free on companycheck.co.uk as I did long ago, giving almost no information about myself other than a login email address, you can see a bit more that on the Companies House site. Mainly financial graphs showing performance over several years, though as they are so small their profit and loss figures are not available so only the graph of balance sheet values present.

I hope that helps.

Many thanks for the info...really appreciated. I have to admit to being a little underwhelmed with the functionality of their website, that along with your observations plus the lack of reviews online seems to be good cause to give them a miss for now.

In reply to a post by wildgoose1uk:

Many thanks for the info...really appreciated. I have to admit to being a little underwhelmed with the functionality of their website, that along with your observations plus the lack of reviews online seems to be good cause to give them a miss for now.

That is what put me off, i have just signed up for Plusnet again for 18 months, they have given me a £23 month deal