Broadband suppliers

Recently decided to change Broadband suppliers when BT sent me an e-mail saying that I hadn't used dial-up for 90 days and even I didn't dial in they'd discontinue my account. I haven't used dial up for over three years. They seemed incapable of changing my account on their system.

One of the reasons I stayed with them so long is that I didn't want to lose my e-mail address which I use on a nearly daily basis and all my contacts have, but now for a small monthly charge you can keep your e-mail address. So I've changed.

The limitations of BT are quite ludicrous - monthly limit on amount downloaded. This may have started to infringe on my work as I'm working home at least one day a week and quite often this can extend to two or three days.

I've decided to go with O2 as they offer a £4 discount if you have your mobile with them so my normal monthly amount will be approximately half of what I was paying BT (including the charge to keep my e-mail address). I have also have unlimited downloads, within a fair usage policy. I was talking to a guy at the call centre and he said the only guy who had been penalised under that had manged to download 0.5 Tb in three weeks! doubt I've downloaded that much in the 9 years I've been online - that's more than the total hard drive capacity of my computer.