January 15, 2010

It may be time for a new telephone supplier

It seems I have a big decision to make this month. Who to put my telephone and internet business with. Apparently my contract with BT runs out at the end of the month. Which probably means I will forget to do anything about it. But I know I should – so I have been trawling through the internet sites to see if I can do a bit better for myself.

The problem is it is like trying to learn another language. I have no idea what a dect phone is. Yet apparently, I have some really interesting deals available on a range of digital dect cordless phones. This is interesting – if only because I am not even sure if I have a digital dect cordless phone already.

This is one of the key problems with looking to buy some telephones on line. They all look the same, they all sound the same. Hell they probably ARE all the same. Which to my way of thinking means you can’t go far wrong.

Let’s face it, the only reason that people get so worked up about mobile phones is that they think they are impressing their friends when they get the damn things out. Who sees your phone at home apart from you?

The same probably applies to our providers. Just think what you could do with free texts for life. Form a band apparently. But who knows or cares what you do with your broadband? Granted there are probably some kudos to be earned from a techy friend if you have hyper-zingy broadband firing off a zillion widgets a second. But who really cares? Which might explain why business broadband and ADSL lease lines are so rarely riveting dinner time conversation.

But, ladies and gentlemen, I save the best until last. What do you know about how your UK ISP measures up? Very little, I am guessing – but now at the touch of a button you can see who is fast and who isn’t. You can even measure yours on-line without getting arrested. Sounds like a service worth paying a little extra for to me!