Phone/Internet/& Sky - I'm with too many companies, am I paying too much?

lisaannhalliday

Hi,

I currently have a sky package for my phone which is about £5 a month. My line rental is with BT which is about £13. My internet is with plusnet which is about £10 a month. But I also end up paying about £20 a month to sky for my phone as I'm a stay at home mum (with no network coverage on my mobile) so use the phone a lot during the day. So, all in all for home phone & internet I'm paying about £48 a month.

I looked at going back to TalkTalk ( I was with them in my last home) but they would need to charge me £15 a month on top of their basic deal as they don't have some sort of connection set up in my area.

Anyone got any ideas about what I should do to get a better deal?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Lisa

Heinz

The £5 you pay for Sky Talk Unlimited should cover all your daytime 01/02/03 calls of under an hour - so you must be making calls to destinations not included in the package (e.g. 08x and 07x numbers).

Sky are the most expensive company for 0845 and 0870 calls so use www.saynoto0870.com to try to avoid those.

For calls to UK mobiles (075/077/078/079 numbers), sign up online for a www.18185.co.uk A/C and then use the 18185 prefix to reduce your costs on those and on 0845/0870 calls for which you can't find geographic alternatives..

jd87

As you are with Sky Talk, you should be able to get the Sky Broadband Base (max speed 2mbps) package for free.

lisaannhalliday

Thanks for the advice.

I am with sky talk (I think) but because of where we live Sky couldn't provide our internet directly which is why we are with Plus Net.

Talk Talk recently contacted me and although it's the same situation with the internet with them it did seem like a cheaper deal for telephone??? I've asked them to call back in a few days so I can get some more advice first.

Lisa