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Can you reduce my Phone/Broadband bill?

Im currently with Sky and pay them for Phone, Broadband and TV. The broadband is unlimted so I pay £10 and the TV is £29.50.

My line rental is with BT an Im on the Unlimited Weekend Plan @ £13.60 a month plus £2.70 for caller display. I still have a Orchid dialler which I havn't programmed for ages but it still sends most of my calls via 18185.

My monthy charge for sky calls is around £3.50 and £16 for 18185

I must admit that Im a fan of Sky plus so would probably prefer to stay with Sky for TV?

Any thoughts?
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  • avantra
    avantra Posts: 1,331 Forumite
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    edited 12 March 2011 at 10:00PM
    Lots of deals around at the moment.

    If you really want to take the change and willing to put up with non-uk call centres then you can get a good deal at the end the day.

    I decided few years ago to look at which channels I watch on a regular basis and found that Freesat and the Internet gives me what I want so I ended the Sky contract.

    You can get broadband at 24mbp (40 gig/month usage), free set up + modem and evening/weekend inclusive calls from TalkTalk, all for £3.49/month for the first year, It looks like you need to surrender your line rental to them but it is still cheaper at £12.30/month.

    Caller display is similar money to what you pay now so all in all about £19/month.

    If most of your 18185 is in the UK you can get all the time calls for £5/month from TT.


    Some will warn against TT but this really depends on how long are your nerves :D

    A freest box which you will be able to use with your Sky aerial is about £60.
    Five exclamation marks the sure sign of an insane mind!!!!!

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  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
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    Goodjob wrote: »
    Im currently with Sky and pay them for Phone, Broadband and TV. The broadband is unlimted so I pay £10 and the TV is £29.50.

    My line rental is with BT an Im on the Unlimited Weekend Plan @ £13.60 a month plus £2.70 for caller display. I still have a Orchid dialler which I havn't programmed for ages but it still sends most of my calls via 18185.

    My monthy charge for sky calls is around £3.50 and £16 for 18185

    I must admit that Im a fan of Sky plus so would probably prefer to stay with Sky for TV?

    Any thoughts?
    Going back to BT would save you £2.70 (shortly to be £3) per month for Caller Display.
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • steveE2
    steveE2 Posts: 1,326 Forumite
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    Goodjob wrote: »
    Im currently with Sky and pay them for Phone, Broadband and TV. The broadband is unlimted so I pay £10 and the TV is £29.50.

    My line rental is with BT an Im on the Unlimited Weekend Plan @ £13.60 a month plus £2.70 for caller display. I still have a Orchid dialler which I havn't programmed for ages but it still sends most of my calls via 18185.

    My monthy charge for sky calls is around £3.50 and £16 for 18185

    I must admit that Im a fan of Sky plus so would probably prefer to stay with Sky for TV?

    Any thoughts?
    Firstly you should only be paying £7.50 for Broadband not £10 (12.50 -£5 for having Talk Freetime)

    £16 per month for 18185 sounds an awful lot to me unless its mainly mobiles/international,as you pay Sky £3.50 already for calls why not take the Unlimited calls package at £5 instead and cut down landline calls made via 18185,if you do make international calls SKy have 20 countries included in the Unlimited pack

    You could transfer line rental to Sky* @ £11.25 inc caller display though I don't like my line away from BT if ever I wish to change ISP

    Or transfer to another BTWholsale supplier,I recommend IDNET @£12.75 Line and caller display where the line stays as a BT line only the billing is handled by IDNET.

    *Don't think 18185 works on Sky line rental
  • Goodjob
    Goodjob Posts: 32 Forumite
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    Thanks for all the great advice.
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