General Chat

Although we've looked into changing broadband providers, we've never bothered to go through with it.

The last time we looked, admittedly a few years ago, other providers worked out more expensive with a slower speed. At the time BT wouldn't allow them to put equipment into the Exchange.

Although it might have changed now, we still seem to get a reasonable phone + broadband deal when the annual contract comes up for renewal.
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We did swap our main bank account from one to another as they paid interest on the current account balance. The original account still exists which we occasionally use when we go abroad. If that DC should fall into the wrong hands, there's not a great deal to get away with!
We consider that we bank with a Brand rather than a specific branch. Aren't they all one and the same?

We still have accounts with the bank branch that we opened in 1968. Rarely go into that branch, but all OH's salary and now pensions are deposited in there, and we draw out at another branch across town.

We still have phone service with the same company we started with in 1968, but we got a different number when we moved in 1972.

We even still have the same rotary phone that we got when they updated some time in the 80s .......... it's downstairs as the "extra" phone

My computer provider is the same one that we got back in 2003, and is the one that also has provided us with cable service since 1977. They update automatically .............. had the technie round last week, got a new modem with super WiFi and check of all systems. Didn't cost me a penny.


It truly does seem that people here do not change their phones or computer services just because they think service is better ........ they may negotiate better terms with the phone or cable company :-) . You can even keep your landline phone number when changing to a cell phone.

But everyone I know here has the same email address they had 15 or more years ago.

Switched my broadband provider from Sky to Plusnet with phone and calls.
I am saving at least £33 a month.

Lol we are with the same bank with whom we opened our first joint account together back in 1958/9, It was, in those days Nat Prov, now NW. As we have never had any problems with them, (except in the early 70s they sent us a letter reminding us we were supposed to bank with them not the other way round. the one and only time we were ever overdrawn and that was a bill going in early and salary going in later than it should) we have not changed. Our actual branch which is in the town we lived in the move before last (80s) has just closed.

I have a dormant bank account Dermot, from so long ago I can't remember ( maybe 30 years?). I did intend to close it but think it was more to close it than was in it, so left it...maybe I should get that £1 out lol.

Switching anything is not in my nature.

For example, I opened my first bank account in London in 1968 when I worked for that bank branch.

It is still there despite the fact that I left their employment 2 years later. Never been inside the branch since. :-D

Wasn't here for 18 hours yesterday as have just switched broadband provider.

Have you switched since your contract ended? I should be saving at least £9 a month which is cheering. :-)

( Surprising how much more you get done when there is no internet! )