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We've ended up in the usual over-priced existing-customer Sky deal, paying three figures a month for Q and super-fast broadband, despite average speed being no more than 20mbps. Our street had Virgin piped in last year and I'm tempted to switch for better internet speed mainly. Who's the best to deal with nowadays and who has decent broadband? Probably questions loaded with follow-on Qs such as "depends where you live etc" but just thought I'd ask in general terms.
Erm Sky
£42 for basic TV package and unlimited fibre broadband. You can’t beat that.
I’ve just renewed my package with them on this.
My contract started 18m ago at this amount and steadily gone up to £55pm. As my contract is ending they said it would go up to £85pm
I pointed out that there are new customer deals for £42 per month and they immediately said I could have that.
I know by the end of the contract it will be up to £55 but I still can’t get that cheaper elsewhere
It’s unlikely any other fibre provider will get you quicker speeds, it’s the same line.
Oh and 3 figures bill on sky? You must be have sports channels/movies etc?
paying three figures a month for Q and super-fast broadband
That's a lot, I'm £77 with Sky Q and I think everything but Sports - I don't have broadband though but I thought they basically gave you that for free once you were spending a lot on the TV side.
When's your Q contract up? Mine's just expired so going to try the old "I'm going to leave routine" with them. I guess you switching to Virgin makes sense if you want to get faster broadband to, it's likely you'd 20Mbps with any provider via normal FTTC.
Sky sounds like such a PITA with contracts that are designed to increase year-on-year and sneakily up the price hoping people won't notice or bother to change. It's just such a shitty business model, it really puts me off ever wanting to subscribe with them.
It’s just such a shitty business model, it really puts me off ever wanting to subscribe with them.
Yeah it's a bit crap you have to agree to get locked into a contract to get a discounted subscription but I'd be surprised if Virgin didn't do it either. Sky used to try and lock you in for longer than the discount period to by default but they would always align them if you kept pushing so then it's kind of on you to make sure you're aware when the lock-in and discount period end
I'm not fussed about TV, and that seems to be the kicker.
PlusNet do 65MB broadband and phone rental for £25 per month - there may be cheaper providers.
I don't even have a TV aerial, just use the 70MB broadband from PlusNet with a Smart TV for Netflix (£12), NowTV (£9 - and includes most of the decent Sky TV stuff) and the free apps from BBC, ITV More4 and so on. I pay for Prime so get Amazon as well, sort of for free.
You can pay more for NowTV to get the Movie and Sport Channels.
But overall, that's phone, great fast broadband and pretty excellent TV (including UHD on BBC, Netflix and Prime) for less than £50.
The TV isn't as good as SkyQ, but at least it's mine!
£42 for basic TV package and unlimited fibre broadband. You can’t beat that.
Well, it's not a terrible deal but I reckon you can. There are fibre deals around for less than £20 a month. Add the NOW Entertainment package for £9.99 (and you'll probably want the £5 HD boost) - that's assuming you can't find a Now deal somewhere. Well under £42 a month. Maybe Sky give you some whizzy box that's worth the extra though?
Is there a recommended whizzy box for people ditching cable providers?
Sky sounds like such a PITA with contracts that are designed to increase year-on-year and sneakily up the price hoping people won’t notice or bother to change. It’s just such a shitty business model, it really puts me off ever wanting to subscribe with them.
I'm no Sky fanboi but that's nonsense. You agree a 18 month contract at a discounted rate then at the end of the 18 months it goes back up to the standard rate. They warn you of this before the end of your contract. Any in-contract price rises are emailed/posted in advance including a break down of the previous and future costs. Think they still give you the option to cancel early upon price rises as well. Moan about the cost by all means but they are pretty upfront about everything.
To the OP.
I was recently in the same position. I contacted Sky at the end of my contract but didn't like the deal so gave 31 days notice. Had a good look around but was struggling to find anything significantly cheaper that would offset the reduce service with much cheaper bills. On day 30 I rang Sky back to give them chance to keep me and managed to get (without much haggling) TV with boxsets, HD, full Sports, Ultrafast BB + tel line and Multiroom for £73. Didn't think that was too bad tbf. I wasn't too bothered about the multiroom but it also gives you access to the premium Sky Go which I often use on my mobile or laptop and share with my pal for use of his Netflix.
We have been with Sky for 16 years. Receive a letter telling me our basic package - Broadband, Entertainment TV, and landline- was going up to £71.
Contact reduced to proposed prices to £47. Told them no.
Binned them and have gone to Now TV for Entertainment package and Broadband, £29.99. I lose access to Discovery, but even if I subscribe to Discovery+ I am better off by over £170 per year.
£42 for basic TV package and unlimited fibre broadband. You can’t beat that.
That's what I've done recently. I was paying a lot more for just broadband with someone else, and their deal is also good for people who don't use a landline to make calls, basically no line rental on top, but calls cost a stack more.
Probably saving 50 quid a month.