ANOTHER sky cancellation thread

brewster85

Hi I'm new, been lurking for a while and noticed a lot of threads about cancelling Sky, so thought I'd tap up the knowledge base..

Right so I've done my 12 months with Sky (Tv + Phone + Broadband), realised what an immense waste of money it is and have decided to cancel it. Phoned up today and was told that I could give my 30 days notice but I would effectively have to reconnect my phoneline if I want to get broadband with someone else (at a cost of around £125). This is because during the time I've been with them, they've stopped piggybacking on BT's lines and now own them (their words..sounds ominous to me), so when you cancel, your phone gets cut off.

I haven't yet cancelled because I need broadband, and paying £125 at this point would defeat the object of trying to save money, but does that sound right? I have to pay a stupid amount of money when nothing physically happens to my line except it gets run by another company? (I'm quite new to all this by the way only been living in my own place a year) and if it IS right, is there a way to get broadband without the hefty connection charge?

Sorry for the long winded first post, hope someone can help!

nordtraveller

It's the same with Talk Talk.

You would have to pay another Company 125 quid to get the phone line back.

jimkenyon

nordtraveller wrote: »

It's the same with Talk Talk.

You would have to pay another Company 125 quid to get the phone line back.

Or if you have the option - Virginmedia.

Sky took the attitude to me when I cancelled.

brewster85

Cheers for the replies, bit of a pain but be good to get rid of such a complete waste of money!

Sunnyday

If you`re not in a great rush then knock your package down to the bear minimum and wait until bt have the offer to to waive the £125 fee. They do this every once in a while although they don`t publicise it well.

I kept my line rental with bt and cancelled the sky talk in November and moved the calls back to bt and at the same time asked for a mac code to swap the broadband to O2, i`ve just emailled sky to cancel the tv :j i`m not expectiing it to be plain sailing though

HTH

SD

Wookey

If your on a LLU exchange then sky probably do have there own infrastructure as do a lot of other telecoms providers, afaik though with sky you just need to keep the bare minimum tv package to avail of there free phone/bb deals so is £18 per month really that bad a price?