Changing to Sky Broadband........ ?

Steaminboot

I'm a Sky TV customer using O2 Broadband 20MB and paying BT for my line rental . Light user as far as landline calls are concerned.

Very happy with O2's excellent Broadband service but the chance to save £120 a year by swapping over to Sky for the free broadband if i take their call & Line rental package seems just too good to turn down.

Just wondering if it really is too good ? Anyone see any problem ? How is the Sky service now ? I know they messed my sister in law around and she was without a connection for three months when she changed to them last year , but i am aware that with a large company there are bound to be some screw up's !

Where can i check out Skys rating as a broadband provider ?

I'd be planning to stay with them for a year and then probably change to BT as they are rolling out superfast broadband of 50MB guaranteed in my area from March next year.

Any advice gratefully received

penrhyn

You are not comparing apples with apples.
The free broadband package from Sky has a minuscule download allowance of 2Gb, exceed this a few times and you will be upgraded automatically to the unlimited package which will cost you £7.50/month(with Talk Free).
If this is still attractive to you then do keep your line rental with BT, as if Sky move you to their telephone network you won't be able to move back to BT so easily and may incur costs/delays.

Steaminboot

Thanks Penryhn , i read the excerpt below from the guide but i was confusing download limit with speed !

" Sky TV customers can get 2 Mbps Sky broadband* with a 2 GB usage cap for free, but only if they take its Sky Talk home phone package, or else it's £5/month. This package will increase in speed to 20 Mbps as of June 1st. "

Looks like i'd be better staying with O2 , it's fast , it works , their customer service is excellent and i get it slightly cheaper as i have a monthly mobile contract . Thanks for your help.