RE: Bit the bullet...

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

OK .. I pulled some PDF file over from BT (I may still have it somewhere)
but it said that:

"BT Surf Together

For a monthly fee of £39.99, you get a £7 call allowance and a SurfTime
package that allows you to surf the Net all evening and weekend, without
having to worry about the call charges."

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennethwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 March 2001 04:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bit the bullet...
>
>
> Phil, when did BT throw in the surf package for free 'cause they ain't
> offered it to me, they told me that would cost another £5.99 a
> month! I have
> to pay for the surf package on top of the £39.99 that's how I got to
the
> £45.98.
>
> K
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 March 2001 11:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bit the bullet...
>
> I completely agree with your dislike of HH from the standpoint of cost
and
> coming from a house where I had a cablemodem before then I am
> really feeling
> the pinch however for me the deal was worthwhile.
>
> At the moment we have one phone line and I am tying it up all the
> time. For
> £39.99 (not £45.98) we get the second line (worth - say - £10), I get
my
> 6pm - 8am and weekends internet access (worth £15) and £7 worth of
calls
> lobbed in, this is in addition to our single line as well.
>
> I considered the "all local calls inclusive" package but I
make few local
> calls ... my family are 300 miles away and my partners family are in
the
> next village and we see then every day. All our friends are
> further out than
> woul be counted as a local call and so this just wasn't of use to us.
>
> When HH was £49.95 a month *PLUS* calls *PLUS* ISP service then it was
> horrendously overpriced ... this is actually quite a reasonable deal
now.
> Sure ... if I hear from my mate at NTL that they've managed to
piggyback
> digital services onto the crappy old Cable and Wireless network
> and will be
> offering cablemodem service for £20 a month then I'll be beating a
path to
> their door but untill then (given that I have more chance of winning
Miss
> World than getting ADSL which I also think is a bit overpriced at
> the moment
> compared with cablemodems) in the current round of evalations then the
HH
> deal is best for me ... especially given that I don't currently have
the
> luxury of the clean data streams that you get from your analogue
modem.
> Remember it's a combination of the data rates and dialup times that
have
> prompted me to make this choice in the first place.
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
> <SNIP THIS WAS GETTING FAR TOO LONG> :o)
>
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