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moving to sky - setup costs

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  • macman
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    No, because you can still do a return to donor as described. Once back on BT, you can then provision your broadband as required.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • --Tony--
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    macman wrote: »
    No, because you can still do a return to donor as described. Once back on BT, you can then provision your broadband as required.

    But won't that leave me stuck on a BT 12 month contract?
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  • macman
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    For line rental, yes. But no set up fee.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • --Tony--
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    macman wrote: »
    For line rental, yes. But no set up fee.

    Thanks,

    Just checked and even if I break my bt contract straight away I will only pay 12x£2.50 and thats just £30 sky will charge £36 and I risk loosing my number.

    Best deal for me will be one week with BT and pay up my £30, this way it wont even take very long as I will be with BT in about 10 days.
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  • This may help? Have just renegotiated my Sky package to include broadband and phone. I wanted Sky Ent extra at £25 + line rental at £12.25, with free eve and weekend calls + the 2GB limited broadband. When they talked about the £60 set up fee I asked to go through to cancellations. Very nice chap there agreed to up broadband to unlimited [7.50 a month] with corresponding zero set up charge but waive the line rental for 12 months. Making monthly total of £32.50 for the Sky tv I wanted + unlimited broadband + free eve and weekend calls. Which given that I'm currently paying £49 a month just to BT counts as A RESULT I think. NB - and I was just coming to the end of the 6 month period for which the cancellations dept [think jit may even have beemn the same adviser] had agreed to halve my monthly Sky TV package after I'd made noises about leaving them...
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