WightFibre has announced that their Essential Broadband package is now available for easy online ordering with automated eligibility checks for those on Universal or Pension Credit.
The Essential Broadband package has been available for some time, but the Government is asking all broadband providers to promote these deals more actively with statistics showing only 1.2% of those eligible have taken advantage of such a package.
WightFibre has gone 1 step further and is the first service provider to implement a new service run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This allows WightFibre to verify – with customers’ permission – they are in receipt of Universal or Pension Credit and therefore eligible for WightFibre’s Essential Broadband package. The company will also allow existing customers to move to these new tariffs without penalty.
WightFibre’s normal price for 100mb/100mb broadband is £24.95 but for those on Univerisal Credit or Pension Credit it is £16.50 and includes a free pay-as-you-go telephone line, so customers will save over £100 a year moving to this tariff and will save even more if moving from higher priced competitors. The new system will also simplify the ordering process for customers by removing the need for them to prove their eligibility. Instead, eligibility will be checked automatically every month using the new DWP service
John Irvine, CEO of WightFibre, says:
“WightFibre’s ‘because we care’ ethos means we are committed to making full-fibre broadband available to all sections of our island community not just to those who can afford it. Our Essential Broadband Package is no slimmed down offering. It is exactly the same package as our Residential Full-Fibre 100/100 package”.
The package, as with all WightFibre packages, is on a monthly rolling contract with no minimum commitment. Anyone on Universal or Pension Credit can apply through the online order process at www.wightfibre.com/order or by calling 01983 240240.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Chloe Smith, said:
“Our new broadband eligibility checker is an important tool to help people on low incomes access cheaper internet, and is another example of how the Government is helping the most vulnerable with the rising cost of living.
“I’m pleased that WightFibre are using this to offer their eligible customers significant savings, and I encourage other providers to look at how our eligibility checker could help people across the country save on their broadband bills.”
Probably me but I cannot find any links to this tariff on Wightfibre’s website.
Even putting key words in the query box is not finding it.
Me neither!!
Sounds more like a case of “big brother” to me.
Oh how lovely. Not only did I have the enormous joy of every road being closed and dug up by these clowns: but now I can’t even get discounted broadband because I work. But I can get full price broadband so will have the solace of knowing my high priced Wightfibre bill goes to subsidise others.
perhaps they could go back to the bottom of union street in ryde and put the paving back the way it was, rather than the messy tarmac slung in the trench they dug – those pavements were laid with bricks and the pathetic tarmac hole filling looks ridiculous and amateur
You Work good for you, so do many on uc
Surely they should be charging MORE to prevent lazy bastards sitting at home all day. Get out, get a job and pay your way, like most people! Why are government and WightFibre encouraging people to stay at home and stay on the dole?
It’s the Re-set.
Soon no one will be going to work, hence Cables be laid worldwide.
We are not all on the dole
What a short sighted, ignorant comment. Older generation I suspect?
Wightfibre are wasting loads of money keep posting literature through my letterbox
Some people do not want Wightfibre.
I don’t know which Company is worse
Wight fibre or Anglian Windows for letter dropping.
once it is complete they will probably sell the entire fibre network to bt openreach, so that BT can offer up fibre to its existing customers and retire the copper network fully – wightfibre probably don’t care if people take it up, as that is likely not their agenda.
I would not use BT Openreach on the Island for free
They employee too many *******
Wightfibre are wasting loads of money keep posting literature through my letterbox
Some people do not want Wightfibre.
I don’t know which Company is worse
Wight fibre or Anglian Windows for letter dropping
Would be nice but they haven’t installed fibre down my road yet