Martin Lewis appeared on Good Morning Britain this morning to promote a short-lived BT broadband offer in his Deals of the Week.
Most people pay £30 or £40 a month for their broadband and phone line. Yet if you wait to pounce on short-lived promo deals you can slash the cost, he said.
Until midnight tonight, BT has the cheapest fibre broadband deal the Money Saving Expert boss has seen this year. It’s only available to 83 per cent of the country, so to check if you’ll get it first use a comparison tool like Martin’s Broadband Unbundled tool, which shows you your cheapest deal.
BT broadband newbies (defined as anyone who currently doesn’t have BT broadband) who go online to price comparison site Broadband Genie can get up-to-52MB fibre broadband (3x standard speed, so it’s good for heavy downloading, gaming, streaming or multiple users).
The contract last 18 months. You pay £11/month (normally £23) for the broadband and £19/month for the line, unless you can pay a year upfront, where it’s £208.80 (equivalent to £17.40/month).
There’s also a one-off £9.99 charge for router delivery and activation.
BT then also allows you to claim a £150 prepaid MasterCard (spendable almost anywhere) within three months of activation. Though it won’t remind you about this, so use this prepaid card claim form.
Plus, via the comparison site you also get a £50 Amazon voucher that comes within 90 days of sign-up when you enter your email after clicking to the deal.
So pay line rental upfront and it’s £530 over 18 months before calls (ignoring the optional BT Sport), but claim and use the vouchers (assuming you’d have spent that at Amazon anyway) and it’s £330 before calls, equivalent to £18.40/month.
Plus, while not compulsory, you can opt in for the full 18 months to watch BT Sport online, via its app or on Sky. You get the first six months ’free’, it’s then £7-£10/month for the rest of the contract.
BT will try to sell you a pricier package on its TV page first, so you’ll need to skip it to find this BT Sport offer.
During his Good Morning Britain appearance, Martin also reminded viewers that March is Free Wills Month if you’re over 55.
Wills drafted by solicitors usually cost £120 or more, but solicitors in over 40 locations in England, Wales and Scotland will draft a will for free during March.
Earlier this week, Martin appeared on This Morning to warn viewers that hundreds of thousands of people could be owed hundreds by the Student Loans Company.
“If you’ve graduated or left university in the last 20 years or so, you could be one of 100,000s owed money back from the Student Loan Company,” he revealed.
The Money Saving Expert guru said there were three reasons you could be owed funds: you could have paid money back too early, overpaid in a particular year, or still be paying even though a loan is paid off.
Martin Lewis also advised how many could be owed hundreds of pounds by the Student Loans Company.