This summer Simplifydigital is spreading the summer cheer with some great deals from Orange, TalkTalk and 3 Mobile.

Firstly, let’s take a look at Orange’s broadband and home phone bundle.

Orange Home Max

• Broadband with up to 8Mbs speed
• 10Gb download limit
• Line rental
• Evening and weekend calls
• Anytime calls to UK and 30 international destinations via Second Line

Usual price for existing Orange mobile customers is £14.67 per month.

With Simplifydigital you get all this for £11.90 per month if you order through our call centre.

Standard price for non mobile customers is £24.47 per month.

With Simplifydigital you get all this for £21.69 per month through our call centre or online.

TalkTalk

TalkTalk offer a great bundle offer for families that like to download music and movies on the internet. With the TalkTalk essentials bundle with Anytime calls boost you get:

• Broadband with up to 8Mbs speed
• 40Gb download limit
• Line rental
• Anytime calls to UK landlines

Standard price is £21.74 per month.

With Simplifydigital you get all this for £20.63 per month through our call centre or online.

Mobile broadband

Mobile broadband used to be for the light to moderate user but 3 has changed all that.

On 3’s Broadband Max plan you get:

• A massive 15GB monthly data allowance
• Free dongle
• Up to 3.6Mb mobile broadband
• Access to the UK’s widest 3G network

Standard price is £15 per month.

With Simplifydigital you get all this for £12.92 per month through our call centre only.

If you want any more information on the above deals or want to compare any other broadband, TV or home phone packages click here or call 0800 1388 388.

Written by Chris

The latest research from Point Topic shows that there has been a big slowdown in broadband contracts sold in the last quarter of last year – in fact sales more than halved in the period, versus the same period the year before. 

Point Topic blame the sharp fall - with only about 200,000 new broadband connections in the period – to the economic slowdown. This is echoed by comments from the service providers themselves, who cite the huge reduction in home movers as a key reason for a reduction in sales of broadband contracts. 

As a result Point Topic estimate that the number of broadband lines in the UK increased from 17.04 million in the third quarter of 2008 to 17.23 million by the end of the last quarter 2008.

When you think that there are only approximately 25m homes in the UK – this does represent very high penetration – and indeed part of the slowdown will be simply as a result of the maturity of the market.

Point Topic commented:

“Within that total it looks as if BT and its resellers are suffering most. The ISPs using local loop unbundling to provide their broadband services to Carphone Warehouse, Sky, Tiscali and Orange did relatively well, adding nearly 430,000 lines between them. Point Topic estimates that Virgin Media may have added about 60,000 cable modem customers as well.”

This makes absolute sense as the BT resellers have very little to offer the consumer relative to the LLU providers, whose economics allow them to offer far more appealing price propositions. So what we are seeing is a shift in share towards the big LLU players. Indeed indications are that Sky and O2 were the biggest selling broadband services over the time period.

If you would like more information on which broadband package is right for you, why not call one of our digital experts on 0800 1388 388 or use our unique Smartsearch tool.

Written by Chris