The Halo plan also gives you double data on your mobile SIM, and a 4G mini hub (posted to you next day) if your main connection goes down. You also don't have to phone up to re-contract to avoid a huge price jump at the end of the initial contract period.
The £5 offer will be to add Halo onto your current package - it won't be £5 a month for everything.
Boo! Hiss! So BT wants me to pay £5 more for... well. Nothing really.
The Mobile belongs to my mother, who uses a dumb phone. No point in extra Data there, they could be giving unlimited Data, wouldn't make much difference really. They know this already when I set it up years ago. It's on their system.
The line we're using to access Fibre has its flaws, but when it goes out, it's a local area issue, and normally in the middle of the night. But the main thing is, the line can't support 30 up as its beyond the range of g.fast (with estimates suggesting we'd be getting less than the 20 up we have now, more like 12 up) and it's a question whether it can hit 100 down either. And since the upload speed is the main concern so that family can connect in and see through cameras if anything is amiss on my mother or connect to a NAS, sounds like I'm paying for not a lot.
Since I've also got the contract on the Black Friday deal and this contract runs out around then each time, why would I sub out a new contract that then pushes me out of missing out new Black Friday deals if I'll need to pay off the new contract (ie, pay even more) first?
If it WAS £5 for Fibre 100 with Halo 1, a truly exclusive deal (for a family that's been with BT since mid 80s), I might have taken it then. Right now, seems like it's trying to get me to stump up for more for no good reason.
