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RE: Bit the bullet...


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: Bit the bullet...
  • From: "Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:05:47 -0000
  • Delivered-to: rich@xxxxxxx
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  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Fair enough ... I expect my monthly bill to be £39.99 + ISP charge [if I go
with them] + (call charges - £7).

If that's the case then that's what I want ... if it's not then I change
the
service. Simple.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennethwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 March 2001 18:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bit the bullet...
>
>
> Methinks this is carefully worded advertising speak for: "We're
really
> taking that into account off your call allowance"
>
> I have my BT bill in front of me and the call allowance is
> -£25.76, the call
> charges are £27.30, the quarterly rental for the rental charges is
£89.36
> all ex VAT! I think you will find that HH is not the great deal that
they
> make it out to be
>
> K
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 March 2001 14:39
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bit the bullet...
>
>
> 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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