Is It Worth Getting A Broadband Bundle?

Broadband bundles are all the rage - that's all your telecoms needs on one bill - but are they ever worth it?

This article will look at price, quality of internet connection and convenience as factors in answering this question.

First a look at the prices of these broadband deals. Common sense would tell you that getting all your services from one provider is likely to be cheaper in the long run since they'll lower prices as an incentive to get your custom for a lot of different services.

This is often true and it's also the case when you are an existing customer with a company and then your subsequently take broadband from them (for example, when you have a mobile contract from a company that does broadband) even though this won't all come on a single bill.

However, it's not always the case as sometimes providers will see you as a captive audience and therefore charge more for services you may assume would be cheaper such as line rental.

For example, one of the UK's most popular bundle providers - Virgin Media - now offers line rental for a price that's more expensive than the industry standard - that is, the price as set by British Telecom. It's not more by much but it's still an expense that can ratchet up the cost of a broadband bundle.

In all, though, the first assumption is the correct one. It is far cheaper to get a broadband bundle in general than buying three services as separate deals.

The other question, though, is whether you actually need those three.

In many cases, consumers get TV - for example - on top of their broadband because it's only a little bit more per month but, if they'd stuck to their original plan and just got broadband and a phone line, it could have cost them considerably less. In this case, the person should have compared like for like when it come to the internet connection.

It's also the case that the quality of broadband connection can be in doubt when taking such as deal. For example, when choosing between Sky or Virgin - two huge bundle providers - you may notice that the former offers fairly slow internet connections with low download limits while the latter offers the opposite.

In this case, one company is putting more emphasis on broadband than the other and when it comes to bundles that can be a serious annoyance since moving one service could mean moving them all.

It seems even when it comes to getting everything, then, one thing has to come first. Whether it's 100 TV channels or 15GB Mobile Broadband the best thing to do to find out whether a broadband bundle is worth it is to start with that.

by: Julia Cook

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