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Amazon's nifty Echo Dot speaker can do just about anything, from playing your favourite tunes, searching the internet, checking the weather and even setting an alarm for you so it's no surprise it continues to be a sought-after home device. Now, TalkTalk will pay its £54.99 checkout price for you, sending it to you for free if you make a crucial home upgrade.
Anyone who switches up their home broadband for one particular TalkTalk plan will get the £54.99 Amazon Echo Dot, the 5th Generation model, added to their order for free. It'll also come packaged with Amazon's Eero router, a simple plug-in that boosts connectivity on devices around your home... so no more dead zones.
The key plan to pick a TalkTalk's plan, like its Full Fibre 150 plan starting £29 a month, a rate that'll cost you £696 in total across the full two year contract. With an average download speed of 152Mbps its speeds are said to be 'four times faster than standard fibre', so it makes working from home, searching the internet, and switching between tabs all seamless.
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As well as the reliable internet speeds, the deal means you won't pay a penny for the eero 6+ device, a gadget which retails for £109 alone, another deal ontop of the free 5th Generation Echo Dot. And there's thought behind the two free devices.
That's because broadband shoppers will be able to pair their free Echo Dot with Amazon's eero 6+ to turn their home into a 'mini smarthome' as TalkTalk explain say to 'use the eero 6+ with Alexa to control lights, locks, plugs'.
TalkTalk is handing out free Echo Dot speakers, and it's all to help boost the speed of your Wi-FiEero routers can also connect to the internet to give off an extra 1,500 square feet of Wi-Fi coverage, which is often a welcomed boost. To put it simply it means TalkTalk will allow you to use the Amazon speaker as a wi-fi extender if ever needed, yet another feature added to the long list of the Alexa device.
To get the deal you'll have to sign up between now and May 29, so just over a month to compare its freebie deal with rivals to lock in the best price. We've taken a quick look at Sky's slightly smaller 145Mbps Full Fibre plan, which costs the same £29 a month but for 5mbps less each month.
In the long run the TalkTalk deal will save users money, especially when you look at its free Echo Dot and Eero deals, however Sky has cut its upfront cost s. Where as TalkTalk will need you to pay a small £4.95 to set-up.
That being said, it's not the only deal around gor eager broadband users, as the provider launches another four plans up until May 29. Including its Full Fibre 500 (data only) plan, at £39 a month this is said to be 13 times faster than standard fibre broadband. Also reduced is the TalkTalk Full Fibre 900 broadband at £49 a month.