The next time you visit Tesco, try looking beyond its massive range of groceries, homeware and clothes: check out the Tesco Broadband deals, too. This supermarket giant offers two exceptionally well priced broadband products to compete with industry giants like BT Total Broadband, Sky Broadband, O2 Broadband and Orange Home Broadband.
Avoiding stand-alone broadband packages, Tesco offers two bundles that provide low price line rental, home phone bills and broadband internet connections in one. Connection speeds are ‘up to 20 Mbps’, which of course means that they depend on factors like how close to the telephone exchange you live, the quality of copper wire in your telephone line, and signal interference, but it’s a creditable speed for such a low fee. The unlimited downloads are subject to a fair usage policy; for most internet users at present, this won’t be a worry, but if you’re a heavy duty downloader; gaming, and/or guzzling movies and music files, take care as limits will quickly be reached.
Tesco Broadband offers an evening and weekend telephone calls package with its internet service for £8 per month or an ‘anytime’ telephone call service plus internet for £12. You’ll have to add £11 to each for line rental, but this is considerably cheaper than many of the bigger broadband suppliers. The call centre is UK based and you can even collect points on your Tesco Clubcard when you use the telephone. One small negative point is that Tesco Broadband charges for 0845 and 0870 numbers, which are free with providers like BT Total Broadband and TalkTalk Broadband.