Should I Switch From Sky Broadband To Tesco Broadband?

Truegho

I am currently a Sky Broadband customer, as we get it for £10.00 on top of our £36.00 per month Sky TV Deal. However, as we are finding it more and more difficult to afford the £46.00 per month to Sky, we are contemplating cancelling the Sky service and switching to another broadband provider.

As we are currently with Tesco Home Phone, I was wondering if switching to the Tesco Broadband service would be our best bet, in case they have any special offers. What do you all think?

I did contemplate switching to Talk Talk, but that has to include the line rental, which we are already paying to Tesco Home Phone.

mandi

O2 are brilliant , and if you top up an o2 mobile with £10 every 3 months , the cost is just £7.34 a month unlimited downloads .

From 1st March they are also doing a combined package of calls & BB & line rental. Well worth a look at

duchy

If you switch to Sky Talk for your phone (paying your line rental to Sky instead of BT) the base Sky BB is free

Sky are also *just* starting to do BB without TV package so it might be worth a call to cancelations (retentions) to see what they can offer you.

Inactive

mandi wrote: »

O2 are brilliant , and if you top up an o2 mobile with £10 every 3 months , the cost is just £7.34 a month unlimited downloads .

Only applies to 02 LLU exchanges.

mjm3346

I don't think they have them at the moment but Tesco are expected to be offering Home phone/Broadband deals this year. When they do you may find a good price can be had from them or some of the other firms that will offer something to hold on to market share, so if you are going to switch now I would suggest avoiding a long contract unless it is a really good deal.


http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article6924195.ece

beccam

are you tied into Tesco phone deal?

We now have everything with Sky (TV, Broadband, phone package and line rental) as I just rang this week to enquire about downgrading our package/leaving Sky and they offered a good deal.

Worth ringing as our totals went from £70 for everything down to £44 in just one quick call.

HappyMJ

duchy wrote: »

If you switch to Sky Talk for your phone (paying your line rental to Sky instead of BT) the base Sky BB is free

It's an insufficient allowance for most people. They will then be upgraded to the £5 per month plan. And the sky phone call prices are horrendously expensive.

kwikbreaks

If you are on Sky LLU which at £10 I suspect you are (I haven't investigated Sky pricing as I've no interest in their TV) then moving to any other supplier (apart from possibly O2 or TalkTalk who I personally wouldn't touch) is likely to put you on a resold BTw IPstream product which all tend to be pretty abysmal unless you pay for a premium service or accept low caps and traffic shaping (eg Plusnet).

Much as I dislike Murdoch I'd advise you to stick with Sky for broadband if you want the TV anyway.

CAPMguy

Tesco Braodband is perfect for me better switch on it.

macman

Look at your LLU options on https://www.samknows.com, then exchange search. Broadband is exchange specific, so it's impossible to give advice without knowing your exchange.

spike7451

Tesco BBand & phone (inc their dial up) is provided by Virgin National under the Tesco name.