By: MarkJ - 15 September, 2008 (1:23 PM)
The
PostOffice (Royal Mail) has cut the price of its broadband and home phone (line rental) packages by between £1 and £3 per month. The group, which claims to have racked up an impressive 500,000 customers since the service launched last summer, has also increased some of its voice call charges:
New benefits - Post Office HomePhone® customers will get
* free weekend calls to all UK, US and Canadian mobiles up to 60 minutes, 5ppm thereafter
* free weekend calls to the top 20 international destinations up to 60 minutes, 5ppm thereafter
New monthly package charges
* Broadband Standard £15.95
* Broadband Extra £20.95
* HomePhone with Broadband Standard £19.95
* HomePhone with Broadband Extra £24.95
* Post Office HomePhone® £10.95
New call charges
* connection fee - 6p per call
* daytime UK landline calls – 4p per minute
* evening and weekend UK landline calls over 60 minutes – 4p per minute
The biggest price change award goes to their '
HomePhone with Broadband Standard' package, which has dropped from £22.95 per month to just £19.95. This 'up to' 8MBps package includes line rental + calls, 5GB of monthly usage, free connection, free modem, UK based support, 5 emails with anti-spam/virus protection and 50MB webspace.
Naturally all packages require customers to sign-up with a 12 month contract and the 'Extra' option includes "
unlimited" downloads, subject to the usual Fair Usage Policy (FUP). The service is based off
BT's white label managed broadband ADSL product and not an unbundled (
LLU) platform.
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