Best 取引，協定s only 存在 申し込む／申し出d online

By JO THORNHILL
Updated: 13:17 BST, 18 October 2010

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People without 接近 to the internet are 存在 勧めるd to try surfing the web at 'online centres' and see the 貯金 they could make on 財政上の 製品s, holidays and other goods and services, during Get Online Week, which starts tomorrow.

変えるs: ツバメ and Ann Walker look online for holiday and energy 取引s

The 政府-sponsored 計画／陰謀, which is supported by celebrities such as 放送者 Terry Wogan and online entrepreneur Martha 小道／航路 Fox, will 持つ／拘留する 3,000 events 目的（とする）d at getting people online and encouraging others to use the internet more.

These will 含む 解放する／自由な computer courses and other short training events at online centres, typically in libraries and community centres.

More than nine million 世帯s have no 接近 to the internet. But those who don't go online are 行方不明の out on big 貯金, for example on 保険 取引，協定s, travel 取引s and 消費者 items, which are often much cheaper if bought online.

によれば 消費者 監視者 Which?, there is a 355% difference between the best online 取引，協定 for travel 保険 and the best inbranch 取引，協定, for example.

The price difference between 支店-based and online 貯金 accounts can also be large. The best online 平易な-接近 account is Nat-West's e-貯金 支払う／賃金ing 2.89%. In contrast, the best branchbased account, from Santander, 支払う／賃金s 2.5%. But the 普通の／平均（する） 支店 account 支払う／賃金s just 0.64%, によれば data 分析家 Defaqto.

David 黒人／ボイコット, 貯金 専門家 at Defaqto, says: '同様に as often finding better 貯金 取引，協定s online, the internet 許すs 消費者s to shop around and compare 率s quickly and conveniently.'

Older people are often 気が進まない to join the 階級s of 'silver surfers' - the 愛称 for retirees who use the 逮捕する. But gift shop 労働者 ツバメ Walker, 70, from Paignton, Devon, is now a 変える and shops online for 貯金 accounts and holidays, の中で other things.

ツバメ, who is married to Ann, 67, and has two children and two grandchildren, recently used the internet to switch his phone and broadband 一括. 'It was simple to switch and entering data took about ten minutes,' he says. 'I stand to save £144 a year just on my broadband.'

Ros A ltmann, director-general at Saga, says that online 接近 for older people is 決定的な. 'It is imperative to today's over-50s that they have online 接近, along with the 残り／休憩（する） of the 全住民,' she says.

'Our 研究 shows that this 世代 are keen online 研究員s, using websites to 調査／捜査する large 購入（する）s such as cars and holidays, so they can make an 知らせるd 購入（する） 決定／判定勝ち（する）. With the 開発

of online communications such as email and Skype, grandparents around the country are able to keep in touch with children and grandchildren abroad.'

To find an online centre 近づく you, call 0800 771234. There are more 詳細（に述べる）s at ukonlinecentres.com.