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Submitted by: Matt Dean
If you’ve only ever lived in one place or you’re not particularly adventurous with your utility bills, you may be forgiven for wondering exactly how one broadband provider is really going to be different from another. What can one provider offer you that another can’t outside of a small price change or a few added features you may never use anyway?
However, if you’ve used more than a few different providers in the past, you’ll know that this couldn’t be further from the truth. When your looking for a provider price can play the largest factor and after that, many people follow brands they know well, falling in as customers with one of the big name broadband ISPs like BT or TalkTalk under the misconception that it doesn’t really matter.
But there’s plenty of different factors that warrant users taking a look at broadband providers beyond the usual boundaries of price and familiarity. That’s why taking a look at a broadband comparison site, social review portal or any other site that can offer you in depth broadband reviews can save you more than just the cash you might save by good research or switching provider, they can save you a lot of time and energy on a provider that might not be the best choice for your location, budget and situation.
Take for example a typical broadband feature that we don’t ever really think about until the day comes that we really need to rely on it: technical support. From reading a providers website you can find out the cost of the technical support and from reading the small print you can figure out even more. However, its only really from reading broadband reviews that you can really begin to find out about quality, or the amount of time you might spend waiting on the phone, or the amount of problems a provider actually has, or how well things like their email support system work.
Broadband reviews work so well because they aren’t usually written by a magazine or consumer guide. You can’t really review a provider until you’ve used them for a long time, so you know that every review you read from another user comes from someone that’s been dealing with that provider for a long time and can provide you with for more useful information about the day to day ability of a provider than any simple list of features.
At the same time it’s always a good idea to take broadband reviews with a pinch of salt. Don’t forget that people are more likely to go online and post negative comments when things go wrong and they are upset than they are to go online and writing a glowing review of something they use every day. For those reasons it’s best to read plenty of broadband reviews at once and analyse what people are saying. Did they honestly dislike the provider or did they have a single problem? Have they taken issue with the lack of a feature that you know you’d never use?
Ask questions, read as many reviews as you can and combine that information with prices and feature lists and you’ve got the best possible information you can get about which broadband provider to choose.
About the Author: Broadband Choices have assisted in the authoring of this short article by giving neutral and pertinent info. more details visit:
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