Moving house with Sky?

blacksmith1980

Hi

I'm currently in a flat with a communal dish. i pay about £55-60 and get sky, sports, HD, broadband (not the basic but a bit higher spec) and evening and weekend calls. i took out my HD contract in nov/dec so it has a minimum twelve months.

I'm about to move house to a terraced property. It will need a sky dish. Can i take my subscription with me or will sky try and rip me off for a new contract? Any tips how to get the best deal out of sky here? Will they install a dish and what does this cost?

Kyrae

They charge £60 to install a new dish, though from experience if you politely threaten to leave then they'll lower it to £30 or free if you're lucky You can also sometimes get free installation if you upgrade to a more expensive package.

Quirky6000

I'll be moving at the end of the year and I certainly won't be paying Sky for a new dish, if they want to keep my business they'll install it for free or I'll go with Virgin, simples

sarah_elton

Kyrae wrote: »

They charge £60 to install a new dish, though from experience if you politely threaten to leave then they'll lower it to £30 or free if you're lucky You can also sometimes get free installation if you upgrade to a more expensive package.

I'm in virtually the same position as OP. We have regular (not HD) Sky from a communal dish, broadband and phone and will soon be moving.

We want to get HD. Are best to (1) have our current services moved and then upgrade to HD in a few months or (2) do the move and upgrade all at once?

We just want the move to go smoothly; don't want to do anything that might confuse the Sky systems. :rotfl:

Are normal and HD dishes different? If we move with normal Sky and subsequently upgrade, will we have to have a standard dish put up then a new HD one in a little while?