Friday, March 11, 2011

How to Save $$$100s a Year on Your Bundle

Last year I had a standard setup for my phone, TV and internet. TV was provided by Videotron and the phone and internet by Bell.

On average I was paying $182.52 per month plus about $10 for a phone card to ring the UK. So that’s $192 per month in total.

The TV package was modest and was the Videotron a la carte 20 package where I could choose 20 stations and change them at will. We also had access to Illico and could download movies for a fee. Unfortunately, my family and I could never find 20 stations worth watching and the package was a little redundant.

So, I took the advice of a friend of the BritClub and have changed my phone/TV/Internet package completely.

I now have a high speed internet link through Videotron - 60Mbps with 150Gb bandwidth and, at the time of writing, this costs approx $81 per month. Then I pay £5 ($7.90) per month for a UK IP address (For more information Click Here) giving access to all UK TV iplayers, $7.99 for Netflix and approx $30 for a Vonage VOIP phone connection. Also, the Candian stations have Iplayers too so you can watch online.

I love it! For $127 per month (For me a saving of $65 per month/$780 per year) I get to watch great TV, phone anywhere in the world without a phone card and have a very fast internet connection.

If you have a wireless router you can watch TV anywhere in the house on your computer and you can plug your laptop into our TV for a bigger screen.

Worth exploring eh? For a UK IP address Click Here.

1 comment:

London Adams said...

Great tip. I've been struggling with overpricing on these for some time.

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