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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: kitz on December 03, 2008, 06:11:09 PM
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Meant to put this up the other day, but I had other things on my mind ;) Anyhow...
I spent a joyful few hours the other night updating ISP product prices as regards to those who have passed the new prices on to their users.
Top marks to those ISPs that have passed on the savings, and show the new prices clearly to consumers on their websites. :thumbs:
Raspberry to those ISPs who I had to get the calculator out and work out the changes myself.. :(
and well there are also many who appear not to be passing on any savings. :thumbdown:
The list:
ISPs who are passing the changes on to customers
ADSL24 (Entanet)
Be
BT
Clara.net
Demon
Eclipse
Freedom to surf
Fast
IDNet
MadasaFish
Metronet
Newnet
o2
Plusnet
Post Office
Virgin
Zen
Nildram (there's been a pricing change since my last update so dont know if they are or not)
Waiting Website changes an new prices
Orange - We are planning on passing on the new VAT reduction to customers but are just working through how and when this will happen.
Tiscali - say they will be offering it but VAT is still being displayed at 17.5%
Those who arent/havent so far
AOL
Demon
IDNet
Namesco
O2
Orange
Sky
Supanet
Tiscali
Talktalk
Toucan
UKO
Virgin
Vispa
Vodafone
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Edits
Just added Orange to the top list. They emailed me this morning, 4-12-08
dave
Added ADSL24 (Entanet). Info on their website.
Eric
4/12/08 - Updated list and made new section for those that are going to act but havent updated pages to display new prices.
13/12 - Updated Virgin and 02 and added Post Office.
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I see the 'usual suspects' in those that have not passed on the savings. :thumbdown:
Suprised to see IDNet on that list though :o
BT,option 1 will save you 34p a month,hardly life changing :D
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Well if Tiscali don't pass it on then I will be looking for a new ISP - my connection speed has been painfully slow all day today, so much so that I've been staying off line as much as possible.
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hmm, if sky decide to pass on the VAT cuts that means I go from paying 17pounds to 16.57pounds :D
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/vat-reduction.html
They are offering it but VAT is still being displayed at 17.5%
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At first I thought it was just this site, what with the maintenance, but every where I go pages are typically taking 20-30 seconds to load... it feels like being back on dialup.
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At first I thought it was just this site, what with the maintenance, but every where I go pages are typically taking 20-30 seconds to load... it feels like being back on dialup.
I have noticed web pages taking ages to load recently.
I think that their LLU network is beginning to struggle in Peak times a bit...
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will save you 34p a month,hardly life changing :D
I know how you feel UB.
But, I have made a few purchases this week and just worked out that in total (so far) I have saved £3.47 because of the VAT reduction.
So whilst like yourself I initially thought "BIG DEAL a saving of 2.5%", but over a month or so this is going to amount to be a decent saving.
We must learn to look at the bigger picture and not concentrate on the minute savings of individual items.
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I guess I'll just have to put up with it until I decide to look for a different ISP. Until then I'll only go online for essentialities (is that a word?).
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At first I thought it was just this site, what with the maintenance, but every where I go pages are typically taking 20-30 seconds to load... it feels like being back on dialup.
Sorry but no problems here.
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The thing is it may not be a big deal to us to save say 50p or whatever per month.
But just think how much the ISPs would gain by not passing it on - just multiply it by a few million customers that some of these ISPs have.
We could be easily talking £1 million each and every month for some ISPs. :(
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At first I thought it was just this site, what with the maintenance, but every where I go pages are typically taking 20-30 seconds to load... it feels like being back on dialup.
Sites running fine here - quite snappy. Try doing a speedtest on thinkbroadband.
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At first I thought it was just this site, what with the maintenance, but every where I go pages are typically taking 20-30 seconds to load... it feels like being back on dialup.
Its fine for me .
Floydy, can you not post your stats up for the guys to have a look at. ?
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/vat-reduction.html
They are offering it but VAT is still being displayed at 17.5%
Thanks for that jamie.
We are working hard to update our website as quickly as possible
Crikey you wouldnt have thought it would be that hard for them to at least change their main pages on the website would you? ???
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I thought Sky increased their prices just recently? :-\ If so I can't see them cutting the price by 2.1% now......
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Just got emal from Orange. They are reducing VAT, I have added them to Kitz' list at the top of this thread.
dave
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Added ADSL24 (Entanet) to list. The info is on the ADSL24 website.
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Just had my combined BB and phone bill from BT,saved 50p.Well its better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
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TalkTalk have this (http://www.talktalk.co.uk/vat) on their website currently. Looks like call charges will be reduced but on other things they will increase what they give you for the money rather than pass on the 2.5% cut.
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Would be nice to note those who do not pass it on or are slow in doing so.
Then when they put it back up we can see if the slow ones are the same.
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I'm continuing to edit and update prices as and when more information comes through from the individual ISPs
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From my monthly billing email from our good friends at Tiscali:
The Chancellor has reduced the VAT rate from 17.5% to 15% from 1 Dec 2008 for 13 months. We are pleased to pass on this reduction to our customers and all bills from 1st December reflect this change.
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Virgin Media are saying they have reduced the VAT on all outgoing bills, although all/any information displayed on their site is still show prices at the 17.5% rate and will be updated in due course.