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Kite2010

Heinz wrote: »

That's just Sky trying to squeeze a final £25 out of subscribers who pluck up the resolve to leave when, as jem16 says, there is absolutely no need to purchase such a card.

Plus a little extra for making customers ring a 0844 number.

(I know you can avoid it by using saynoto0870, but where as 0845/0870 are sometimes "included" in phone deals, 0844 rarely are not)

Moneymaker

She should write to Sky, using Recorded Delivery, including all her account details and stating that she wishes to cancel and doesn't want any future phone calls from Sky or its affiliates.

As stated above, all she needs to do thereafter is ... NOTHING. Leave the card alone and the Sky channels will disappear, leaving all of those listed for "FreesatFromSky".

macman

Even if your MIL does want Freeview via an aerial (though it would be faitly pointless, with !!!!!! available for nothing), the minimum £21 per month she will be saving by cancelling Sky would pay for an aerial install in about 4 months, and a further minimum £160 saving for the rest of the year.
So quite why she'd need 'support' for an aerial escapes me.

seven-day-weekend

I have just had a Freeview aerial installed last week for my upstairs TV, it cost me £120 She will soon make that up by cancelling the Sky subscription. Although I agree with others, just cancel and leave it!

We did this with Virgin Media and had their equivalent of Freeview for several years (although now we have a Virgin Media package again).