Part Fibre

[#1]

I am currently on a FTC including telephone line, Fibre extra I think it's called,  which ends Feb 25, logged in and saw that I have been offered a Part Fibre option with no telephone line for £21.99 Obviously this will increase at the end of March, typical,  so I presume I would only get 1 month with the initial deal?

I'm not bothered about the land line, don't use it anyway.  Currently I get around 74mpbs download and 18mpbs upload (same on wifi and ethernet)

Don't really want another long contract, but thinking about it. Although I get similar speeds, often better on a 4g router! so that's an option too. Would anything change apart from the phone line being disconnected? 

[#2]

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@Smurftickles wrote:

 Would anything change apart from the phone line being disconnected? 

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In a word - no it shouldn't, but strange things sometimes happen - usually rectifiable, though.

[#3]

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@Smurftickles wrote:

Would anything change apart from the phone line being disconnected? 

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@Smurftickles -

If all you did was migrate your Plusnet contract from FTTC (VDSL+phone) to SOGEA (VDSL only), then nothing about your broadband is likely to change because typically the telephone exchange wires aren't touched in this process, and all that happens is that the phone number simply becomes electronically unavailable and disassociated from your copper wires.

However, by removing the landline phone capability from your Openreach Master Socket, that might give you the opportunity to improve your internal connections (such as unplugging the phone handset, removing any phone extension wiring, disconnecting DSL filters, etc) any of which MIGHT then give a slight improvement in broadband speed and latency.

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well I rang Plusnet today, asked about the deals offered, all go up in March anyway. Could only offer 24 months for about £28 and a 12 month one was significantly higher, so I cancelled. I'll use mobile broadband for now, see what comes up in the future.

[#5]

If you sign up for a 24-month deal at £28 on March 1 the March 31 price increase will not be applied. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

[#6]

I believe the price increase will apply, I was told if I took out a new contract in Feb it would increase in March. 

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@redsox9 

Just because the deal is £28 at the moment, it doesn't mean it will be this price on the 1st March.

Brian

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There is generally a date a bit before April when the first price increase is the following April.

My guess (and that's all it is) that some time in early March you might find that applies.

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I also found that the renewal price I was offered varied for different speed options so I took some screen shots regularly last year.

By 2nd March 24 the first price rise was 31st March 25 so I suggest having a look around the start of March..