surely there is a cheaper way of internet/mobile phones?

[SophieBarringtonWard]

We are paying

£30 a month on my contract
£25 a month on DH contract
£40 a month on phone line & broadband

Which is £95 a month! Surely there is a cheaper way of doing this? I am going to look into giffgaff although I think we are both still in contract… But is this just what it costs?

bloody hell.
about £15 line rental and 2.50 for unlimited broadband with a plusnet offer here. And 20 for mobile with 2gb data included

Of course there is. You just chose a more expensive contract because you were lured by the "free" phone. As soon as your minimum term is about to end give your 30 days notice and switch to giff gaff that will save you £35 right away

do you actually need all that?

much cheaper to chat on the landline. Do you really need mobile internet?

Dh's phone £17 (twatphone)
Mine £10-20 a year payg
Internet etc £15. Going up to £20 soon so I'll jump ship to plusnet when the cashbacks high enough.

DH doesn't need mobile internet, or any smart facilities at all on his phone, as he doesn't use them!

I don't need mobile internet but do use it a lot…

We have always had mobiles since we were teenagers so it would be a big change for us to switch to just landline, can't imagine not being able to text…

It's the £40 for landline and internet that really grates, we literally make no phone calls at all each month - will look into Plusnet which sounds better!

ok. Mobile phone does not mean expensive toy. Get rid of your husband's power-eating, fragile brickphone and get him a £10 PAYG small mobile. £10 credit on Tesco lasts me six months - there are cheaper tariffs too.

I have unlimited landline calls and internet, but I work from home. Plenty of people do without a landline, but remember:

• without one you need to be in a good mobile reception area
• you'll have no phone in a power cut, the local repeaters go down too
• friends and family who only have landline/PAYG mobile won't call you as it costs too much. This may of course suit you!

But we can't have the internet without a landline, can we?

My phone (Nokia Windows, Talkmobile) costs me 7.70 a month, so I'm sure you can change to cheaper deals on both your phones.

You can - I did it with a mobile dongle when I was waiting for phone line activation in a new property. There must be better ways by now.

(waves hopefully for someone knowledgeable)

We now have a little 'Mi-fi' box which we can use to get internet without the landline - it's the equivalent of a dongle but makes a wifi hotspot for you so more than one device can be using it at the same time. I think all the networks have them these days, and you can get whatever kind of tariff suits your usage.

Sophie

My Internet is £15 a month with 3mobile which I use solely for my iPad, I've never used my desktop since I was given an iPad for Christmas.

I don't have a landline. I use a mifi.

I never exceed my allowance, but then I never play games or watch films on it, and rarely YouTube videos.

It's easily doable. £15 a month Internet. No landline. All in. Total cost.

We have PAYG phones and are very good at finding free wifi
£15 topup gives 2 months worth of usage (free texts and data for one month, spend the £15 the next month)

Landline including broadband is £30 a month - but we make a lot of work calls from home.

Free phones are not free.
Most phone contracts are an utter rip off.

basic level android smartphone from Amazon, about 70. Orange sim only contract with sufficient calls, texts and internet, 7.50 a month ( can't remember limits as I've never got near to using them up)

I'm with Talktalk, pay landline up front for the year (around £11 pm equivalent) and Internet £3.50pm, but I think they are doing cheaper now. No calls included.
Mobile on Talktalk, £3.50pm, unlimited texts, 300 minutes & 600mg.