Sky connect for £5 instead of £17.99

jarr

i joined sky broadband in december and as the full package isn't available in my area could only choose connect for £17.99
if you enter your number here

http://check.skybroadband.com/Default.aspx

it'll tell you if you can have it for £5

phone using the freephone sky number 0800 0512595 and ask them to change you to £5. they may tell you it's for new customers only, if they won't budge, hang up and call later. the second guy i got through to changed it straight away, the first one wasn't having any of it!

reehsetin

anyone know the no to join sky BB?

Miserable_Sod

I've read this on the skyuser forum. It's worth everyone on connect paying the £17.99 to check the availability using the link above because if your telephone exchange is being updated in the next 6 months the £5 offer will apply to you. As the OP said; call sky and ask to be changed over...they will have to change it once the exchange is upgraded anyway!

On a down side...my line went live last Friday with the £5 connect offer but I've still to recieve my router from sky. Because the router is pre-programmed with my details and you can't use your own router I don't have broadband until their router arrives. :mad:

Gambler

jarr wrote:

i joined sky broadband in december and as the full package isn't available in my area could only choose connect for £17.99
if you enter your number here

http://check.skybroadband.com/Default.aspx

it'll tell you if you can have it for £5

phone using the freephone sky number 0800 0512595 and ask them to change you to £5. they may tell you it's for new customers only, if they won't budge, hang up and call later. the second guy i got through to changed it straight away, the first one wasn't having any of it!

thanks but is says £17 for me. Oh well.

Stumpy

Miserable_Sod wrote:

I've read this on the skyuser forum. It's worth everyone on connect paying the £17.99 to check the availability using the link above because if your telephone exchange is being updated in the next 6 months the £5 offer will apply to you. As the OP said; call sky and ask to be changed over...they will have to change it once the exchange is upgraded anyway!

On a down side...my line went live last Friday with the £5 connect offer but I've still to recieve my router from sky. Because the router is pre-programmed with my details and you can't use your own router I don't have broadband until their router arrives. :mad:

I've just had my first 3 months for £12, primarily due to them not sending my router in time. Same as yours, line went active but the router didn't arrive. I complained, winged, whined, etc, and eventually they gave me half a months credit (on connect). They said to wait a couple of days and it should arrive. It didn't so rang again and it turned out that they'd "forgotten" to order me one, so I complained again and they credited me with the other half of the month and I got the router the next day. The next month the credit wasn't on the bill, so I complained again, and they put it through, plus another £5 because I complained about having to ring an expensive number. It then turned out that they had actually put the credits on the first time, just took a while to go on, so I got credited with £8.50+£8.50+£17+£5!!

Yesterday I rang to complain because my exchange had been enabled in November but I haven't been transferred over yet, and they reduced me down to £5 a month for 6 months. Use the freephone number 0800 0512 595 and get through to broadband customer support - the guy I spoke to was Stuart.

HTH.

QQuaver

reehsetin wrote:

anyone know the no to join sky BB?

From Sky website:
Sky Broadband connect for £5 a month is only available by calling -
Join Sky: 08702 405157
Already a Sky customer: 08702 404007

reehsetin

i ended up going through 0870 5515 515 they were fantastic should be joining begining of march when BT contract finishes, accounts already waiting just have to give them the MAC

Gambler

Can I just ask the people who have signed up for the £5 sky, did the checker on the sky website say your area was available for this offer?

Thanks

Karen1980

Oh cool it says I can have it for £5 I will change over when my bt contract finishes.

QQuaver

Gambler wrote:

Can I just ask the people who have signed up for the £5 sky, did the checker on the sky website say your area was available for this offer?

Thanks

This is what I got, though I'm not signing up to them:

Fast download speeds and a massive usage allowance can now be yours with Sky Broadband Connect. Normally it would cost you £17 per month. But Connect is available in your area right now for just £5 per month – plus a one-off broadband activation fee of £20.

Gambler

QQuaver wrote:

This is what I got, though I'm not signing up to them:

cheers QQ.


Anybody know how I can check when my exchange is going to be updated please?

My current 12 month broadband is up in a couple of weeks and I don't want to take out another contract if I can get sky for a fiver in the near future.

Cheers