Bt vs sky

russppt

Hi

Hoped for some feedback.

I'm currently with bt for home phone and broadband and pay about £35-£38 per month. Bt have just announced price increase and eliminatin there paper free discount.

I have sky plus and pay £40 per month.

Is the switch to sky worth it in terms of price, service and reliability.

Thanks for your time.

Russell

macman

Only if Sky is available LLU on your exchange, otherwise you will be on the non LLU Sky Connect service.
Do an exchange search on https://www.samknows.com to check.

Ady87

russppt - Can you post what Broadband Option and Calling plan you are on and the cost on your bill for them and i will advise you on the best available?

russppt

Hi. I have bt total broadband option 2. The my account part of the site is down on bts website. Will post ASAP or unless this is enough information?
Thanks again for your time.

Russell

smjxm09

If you pay your BT line rental a year up front it works out at only £10 a month

Ady87

MyAccount is back up and running, if you get the figure for me i can tell you what discounts you are entitled too.

Ady

russppt

Hi
Apologies for the delay! Here is the info required Ady87:

My bill for last month was:
Phone line unlimited evening and weekend plan £12.40
Friends and Family mobile £1.50
Broadband £20.50
Phone use £2.80
Paperfree discount -£1.25 (soon to be scrapped I believe)

Total: £ 35.96

Appreciate your time, thank you.

Russell

penrhyn

Hi, have you checked on Samknows if you can get Sky LLU broadband, as requested by Macman?

If so, the cost is Broadband Unlimited £10 ( assuming no Sky TV otherwise £7.50)
Sky Talk Freetime £0
Sky Line rental £ 12.25 or £119.40 upfront for 12 months.

So around £ 22.25 /month.

The_Bunk

I chose to stay with BT over Sky just 2 days ago, but it all depends on your individual circumstances. I have both Sky LLU enabled on my exchange and I have Sky TV.

I chose to stay with BT because I'm over 3km from the exchange and I was concerned my speed would drop if I moved provider. Basically Sky's expected speed was between 0.3 and 1.5mps. I would likely have got a higher speed but the thought of being tied into a 12 month contract with BB speed as low as 0.3mps made me stay with BT.

If it wasn't for my speed concern I would have moved to Sky. If you have sky LLU broardband enabled on your exchange and have Sky TV they will be far cheaper than BT, and they have a good reputation for customer service.

From my experience with BT on Monday, if you get through to BT retentions these are the prices they are offering.

Line Rental £10 (£120 upfront for the year and they will not budge on this price)

BB option 2, which you currently have - £18 on the website with evening and weekend calls included. I have option 3 so I was negotiating for that, but from memory I believe they offered me option 2 for £10.25.

So that's

Line Renal £10
Option 2 £10.25
Friends and Family £1.50
Phone usage 2.80

= £24.55

So that's over £10 off your bill.

Ady87

russppt wrote: »

Hi
Apologies for the delay! Here is the info required Ady87:

My bill for last month was:
Phone line unlimited evening and weekend plan £12.40
Friends and Family mobile £1.50
Broadband £20.50
Phone use £2.80
Paperfree discount -£1.25 (soon to be scrapped I believe)

Total: £ 35.96

Appreciate your time, thank you.

Russell

Bunk got there before me.

BT's Retention deals on Option 2 are £17.25, £13.25 and £10.25, including Evening and Weekend Plan and McAfee security.

Check your usage, if it falls under 10GB monthly, i would push for the £8.25 Option 1 presuming you have your own security or don't need it.

Ady

PS - If your phone usage is £2.80, you're not benefiting from F&F Mobile, ask BT to remove it.

golfpunk69

penrhyn wrote: »

Hi, have you checked on Samknows if you can get Sky LLU broadband, as requested by Macman?

If so, the cost is Broadband Unlimited £10 ( assuming no Sky TV otherwise £7.50)
Sky Talk Freetime £0
Sky Line rental £ 12.25 or £119.40 upfront for 12 months.

So around £ 22.25 /month.

Hi, i'm new to these boards but really need some advice. It's regarding switching to Sky broadband unlimited and Sky Talk with the included line rental which you detailed above (i'm a Sky TV customer btw). They are trying to charge me £60 to switch my phoneline over from BT to Sky. Can they do this? Has anyone else incurred this charge in the past/more recently? I went down the right route of getting a MAC code from my current ISP.

I can't see anything in the Sky Talk t+c's but I thought i'd ask for some more knowledgeable info in these fine forums.

Thanks in advance for any help.