Don’t pay over £7/month for your mobile, and salespeople’s secret tips
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast - Martin shares his tips on how to reduce your mobile and broadband bills. Listeners who have worked in sales ‘Tell Us’ what steps to take to get the best deal as a consumer. And Martin shares what he told the Chancellor, in their meeting at Number 11 a couple of weeks ago.
01’50 Tax self-assessment deadline 06’46 Slash mobile and broadband bills 20’07 Your questions answered on mobile and broadband bills 29’43 Tell Us: Tips from salespeople 32’22 Mastermind 38’43 More Tell Us 39’30 Your texts on self-assessment tax deadline 42’43 Martin’s money-saving tips 47’23 More Tell Us 52’16 What Martin spoke to the Chancellor about when he went to Downing Street
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Martin Lewis, and this is the cunningly named the Martin Lewis podcast. I do wonder |
| 0:10.2 | what that's going to be about. Now, usually much of it comes from my BBC Radio 5 live show |
| 0:14.4 | with Nal Arthur Nyaka, but there's bonus money-saving tips just for you lucky, lucky podcast listeners. |
| 0:20.3 | In today's pod, are you paying more than seven quid a month for your mobile? |
| 0:24.6 | If so, you're likely ripping yourself off. |
| 0:26.8 | I'll show you how to stop it. |
| 0:28.2 | Some can save hundreds of pounds a year. |
| 0:31.1 | The same's true for broadband too, where anything over 30 quid a month may be too much, |
| 0:35.6 | even for seriously fast fibre, some of you can |
| 0:39.4 | halve the cost and double the speed. I have a warning about the tax self-assessment deadline. |
| 0:45.0 | We've incredible tips from salespeople this week as the tellers. They've been revealing lots of |
| 0:50.5 | their secrets into how to get better deals on petrol, insurance, how to negotiate, |
| 0:55.2 | and more. I have an update on energy bills and a free National Trust family pass for you. |
| 1:00.8 | And this week's Money Mastermind is a classic of the genre. Poor Nihal. |
| 1:07.5 | Oh, and P.S. If you listen to the end, I'll tell you what I told the Chancellor he should do in his budget. |
| 1:13.7 | Play the theme tune. |
| 1:17.8 | I got meals. I got to eat |
| 1:28.3 | So I'm going to make sure |
| 1:31.3 | Everybody eats |
| 1:32.3 | Give the man some time to eat |
| 1:35.3 | He works so hard |
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