Usage rollover, makes sense?
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Usage rollover, makes sense?
04-05-2013 11:26 AM
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How about rolling over any un used monthly usage rather than being returned to ground zero each month?
If the companies can enforce 12 to 18 month contracts, how about similar arragement for customers?
What happens to the unused daily usage does it get re-cycled, dumped at sea or get stored in a cupboard for later use?
Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
04-05-2013 11:56 AM
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04-05-2013 12:06 PM
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04-05-2013 4:02 PM
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You don't have to sign up to a 12 month Contract for ADSL, but you will have to have an 18 month contract for Fibre because of the installation costs involved.
Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
05-05-2013 9:29 AM
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Quote from: Anotherone
You don't have to sign up to a 12 month Contract for ADSL, but you will have to have an 18 month contract for Fibre because of the installation costs involved.
I wonder why when you 'continue' or change your price plan you have to get tied in to a contract - the initial cost, which as you say is recovered by the contract, has already been recovered.
Ps, sorry my comment is in the quote box, but for some reason I can't get it out of here.
Dick:green Quote fixed.
Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
05-05-2013 11:57 AM
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Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
05-05-2013 1:28 PM
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Clarification please Plusnet!
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05-05-2013 3:27 PM
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* Just to add: I chose the 12mth contract in the end to keep the price down and decided I may as well have the free router as well as I was already tied for a year and as this router solved many problems for me I cannot complain !
Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
05-05-2013 8:38 PM
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I'm on extra (still), and if I go to unlimited, will I be on a 30 day contract or tied in for another year?
If I am tied in - WHY? There is no hardware to pay for.
That was the point I was trying to make, off topic I know. Sorry.
Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
05-05-2013 9:22 PM
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Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
05-05-2013 9:33 PM
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This means they can work out their allocation of working capital and expected cash flows with more accuracy.
They don't want a scenario where customers could come and go as they please (quite apart from the paperwork aggro/cost this would be) so they make it more expensive for those who do wish to have that option on ADSL.
Perhaps on Fibre they really really really don't want you to leave for some operational/capital expenditure reason to do with FTTC so they enforce a longer contract..........
Perhaps they have longer term contracts for the "FTTC links/ports" with BTworldwide so need to pass that on.
Who knows!
Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
05-05-2013 11:58 PM
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Jim is right there when moving to a new ADSL product at the lower price, it's a 12 month contract, having looked at the small print
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06-05-2013 3:06 PM
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Re the subject of contracts...I'm unclear what happens at the end of 12 or 18 months. Does it autonatically roll on to another 12 or 18 months contract?
Re: Usage rollover, makes sense?
06-05-2013 3:11 PM
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Edit - error corrected
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06-05-2013 3:19 PM
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As was said in an earlier post, the allowances topic is all related to the business model. Without checking further (which I'm not going to waste time on) if it came up before, but it certainly did in 2006 and again in 2010 with posts on that continuing until 2012. They haven't changed their model since then and I doubt with Unlimited packages (and increased allowances on some others) becoming more common place, that they are very unlikely to do so now. Flogging that issue is like flogging a dead horse IMHO.
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