Sky TV affected by change of homephone?

tanjatucker

Hi all,

I haven't found an answer to my question anywhere, which seems to suggest it's a stupid one, but here we go anyway!

Our home phone bill is pretty high every month. I've looked at the various deals for landlines (deals in this week's mse email) and worked out we would save a significant amount by changing our home phone provider from BT to Plusnet. The question I have is would this affect our Sky TV in any way? I'm not quite sure why it should, but I thought I read this somewhere before and now can't find any info on this.

Any pointers would be much appreciated! Many thanks.

spike7451

If you have had Sky TV for over a year you do not need to keep the phoneline connected.The change of provider shouldn't make a difference.

enigma52

telephone sky, I believe they have a whole dept. to answer questions/calls just like yours

tanjatucker

enigma52 wrote: »

telephone sky, I believe they have a whole dept. to answer questions/calls just like yours

Thanks. I guess I will do that just to make sure, but thought I'd ask you clever people here first as I dread having to phone Sky. Their customer service is usually shocking and the shortest time I've ever been on hold is 12 mins, usually it's been around 25 mins. :eek:

tanjatucker

spike7451 wrote: »

If you have had Sky TV for over a year you do not need to keep the phoneline connected.The change of provider shouldn't make a difference.

We've had the setup (i.e. dish, box etc) for over 5 years, but cancelled subscription for a while, signed up again earlier in the year and are still tied into a contract at the moment.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

To be honest, it doesn't matter what phone provider you have. It won't have any effect on your Sky TV.

spike7451

tanjatucker wrote: »

Thanks. I guess I will do that just to make sure, but thought I'd ask you clever people here first as I dread having to phone Sky. Their customer service is usually shocking and the shortest time I've ever been on hold is 12 mins, usually it's been around 25 mins. :eek:

You don't need to call Sky to make sure,I was a Sky engineer.

U've_been_framed

Erm, isn't Plusnet a part of BT?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

U've_been_framed wrote: »

Erm, isn't Plusnet a part of BT?

Yes it is, but they're run seperately.