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Home » Thailand in general » Question about ongoing costs of internet in NL for a longer stay in Thailand?
Dear readers,
My question is addressed to Dutch people, who spend several months in Thailand (or elsewhere) every year, but keep their registration and accommodation in NL.
I, living/registered in NL, go to my wife in Thailand for several months every year. During that period I will therefore not use my Dutch internet and TV, but will continue to pay the subscription costs for this because it concerns annual contracts. So I have to keep paying for a service I don't use. And that can add up.
I have not yet found any contracts that can be canceled monthly. The only solution would be to use prepaid internet with a dongle or MIFi/SIM, but there are other disadvantages to that.
Does anyone on this blog have any experience with other options?
Regards,
Khaki
I canceled everything in the Netherlands, where I paid for nothing for half a year, so I bought internet from Tele 2 for mobile, can be canceled monthly for 27 euros per month, if I still want to keep the telephone number, I pay 11 euros per month until I use the internet again. Dutch Then I use this via my phone, which is also a hotspot in collaboration with a chrome cast device, a one-time cost of 39 euros, i.e. This is how I watch Netflix, etc. IT WAS A WHOLE PUZZLE
Hai, if we go to Thailand for 6 months, I will call my provider (Ziggo) and tell them that I will not use the internet for 6 months. Then always get a reduced price. Are you sure that it is a year contract, I think you can cancel per month.
gr.Ed
In the past I canceled my internet for 3 months when I went to Thailand for 3 months.
I haven't been able to do that for a few years now because I would lose my landline number.
I'm really disappointed with this, but I also don't want to go to another provider because I'm otherwise satisfied with Ziggo.
You can also get a fixed telephone number prepaid in the Netherlands.
Take your number with this provider https://account.cheapconnect.net/register.php?ref=25716 (this is a friend link, if you use this I also get a little something, namely 10% of your order amount).
For € 8,95 per year you will receive a fixed Dutch number with an area code of your choice. You can also have the Dutch number that you have already ported elsewhere (so keep it). That costs € 5 once.
Then buy a Gigaset IP telephone and enter the details of your CheapConnect account there. You connect that telephone to a modem and then you can receive calls or make calls yourself.
Take that phone with you when you travel, connect it to a modem in Thailand, for example, so that you can make and receive calls as if you were at home.
If you are a bit technical and like puzzles, you can even have your landline number transferred to a mobile phone (as soon as it has an internet connection).
This way you can at least disconnect your provider for fixed telephony from the one for your internet (and possibly television). You can find the cheapest internet provider for your Dutch address by, for example, searching here: https://www.internetten.nl/internet
You can also use prepaid, if you run out of credit you will receive a warning, I have not investigated this further yet. Maybe someone knows how this works exactly. In Thailand I use AIS
In the past I could cancel my internet with Ziggo for 3 months (even received a gift when I came back), Now this has not been possible for a number of years because I would also lose my fixed telephone number.
I would rather not switch to another provider because then my Smartcard in our device in the bedroom will no longer work and I am otherwise satisfied with Ziggo. But I am disappointed that the costs of the internet continue when it is not used.
Ziggo can be canceled monthly if you do not use the special rate.
If you look at the Ziggo website, you will not find that you can simply open a subscription without an offer. Just call.
I say ziggo at the end of October and call again for a new connection a few weeks before I go home. This year I came home on March 25 and the new package was already there. The same procedure again next October.
So: No offer but pay the full rate!!!
In that case, wouldn't it be better to agree to suspend your subscription for the duration of your absence?
Reconnecting (with modem sent) costs €19,95, while high costs will be charged if you do not return the old equipment.
In any case, it works like this with a newspaper subscription: you can cancel it for the period that you are not there.
I do not have to pay any costs when reconnecting. Cancellation of the contract is not possible.
Dear William!
This is the message that matters to me. Didn't know that Ziggo agrees to monthly cancellable agreements. This is not to be found on the internet. So I'm going to try too. Thanks!
According to the Van Dam law, EVERY continuous subscription in NL can be canceled per month after 1 year - with a notice period of no more than 1 month. This also applies, for example, to insurance policies on an annual basis.
But indeed, the consequence of fixed telephone numbers (but who really needs them today?) is that you lose them and have to wait and see which number you get when you log in again.
If you go to TH every year for up to 6 months, you can, for example, cancel after 1,5 years of use and take a new one after your return - perhaps with a welcome bonus. then you save 2x the costs every 1 years.
OR - if you are not a real heavy user - you pay via prepay, then you are not tied to anything in terms of time.
(I live in a flat with 12 apartments and only 4 of them have a landline). When calling mobile, pay attention to the period that you can do without using the number with number retention. With mine that is at least 1x per 3 months calling on SMS.
If you have a car and don't use it for a few months, you still pay road tax and your house asks for rent or a mortgage. That is, incidentally, with many things that you purchase and do not use (fixed right water, gas and electricity)!
As soon as we leave for Thailand, 3 to 4 months, we SUSPENSION the car.
Because it is not used anyway and is in the garage.
No insurance costs and no tax.
Hoho, I always cancel road tax and insurance for my car for the time that I am in Thailand. There are costs involved.
My question was only about the internet, but I still want to make a comment here. I also always suspend my car (costs € 76) and park it in a private P-space in the open air. Because the terms of suspension is; “not accessible from the public road” (so not just “parking on the public road”), I asked the tax authorities at the time how they deal with a private parking space that is freely accessible from the public road. I never got a very clear answer to this; only that it was thought that it would be allowed.
Incidentally, you have to find a place (residential area, for example), it must be off the public road.
I assume you mean yard near a residential house because residential area is just a piece of public road.