ISP BT Goes Live with Black Friday Broadband and TV Offers

UK ISP BT has put their annual Black Friday broadband and TV discounts live, which include some extra discounts on a couple of their “fibre” (FTTC) packages, 6 months free Amazon Prime with TV (some of those also come with half price BTSport) and a sprinkling of Reward Cards (pre-paid MasterCard) worth up £125 on some packages.

Overall BT’s Black Friday deals aren’t much different from what they normally offer, except on a couple of packages. In fact we’re a little bit underwhelmed as there have arguably been more attractive deals at other times of the year, although in fairness they did recently slash the price of their “ultrafast broadband” (G.fast and FTTP) packages (here).

As usual new customers can expect to receive phone line rental (or VoIP), an included wireless router (usually a HomeHub 5, Smart Hub 1 or 2), unlimited data usage, Cloud storage (online backup), Virus Protect, Parental Controls, Call Protect (stops nuisance calls), the Stay Fast Guarantee (get the speeds they promise or £20 back) and free access to BT’s national network of public WiFi hotspots.

The main gripe with their deals is that hefty 24 month contract term, which we tend to advise against as it will tie you down for a long time if things go wrong. Otherwise the following price offers are expected to run from today until 2nd December 2019 at 11:59pm.

Fibre Essential
Average Download of 36Mbps
Upfront Fee: £19.99

Price: £24.99 a month for 24 months (£32.99 thereafter)

Superfast Fibre
Average Download of 50Mbps
£120 BT Reward Card
Upfront Fee: £9.99

Price: £28.99 a month for 24 months (£36.99 thereafter)

Superfast Fibre 2
Average Download of 67Mbps
£120 BT Reward Card
Upfront Fee: £9.99

Price: £34.99 a month for 24 months (£42.99 thereafter)

Ultrafast Fibre 100 (FTTP / G.fast)
Average Download of 145Mbps / Upload of 30Mbps
£125 BT Reward Card
Upfront Fee: £9.99

Price: £39.99 a month for 24 months (£47.99 thereafter)

Ultrafast Fibre 250 (FTTP / G.fast)
Average Download of 300Mbps / Upload of 48Mbps
£125 BT Reward Card
Upfront Fee: £9.99

Price: £49.99 a month for 24 months (£57.99 thereafter)

Just a reminder that at the start of this year BT announced that they would “not be increasing prices for BT broadband, home phone and mobile plans in 2019” and from 2020 they’ll instead adopt price increases linked to inflation (here). BT has also recently joined other ISPs in making further commitments to Ofcom around fairness and pricing (here).

NOTE: BT may have a bug or two to resolve in their system as the £125 BT Reward Cards on their ultrafast packages don’t show up on all of their product pages yet.