Sky automatic upgrade for going over data limit?

2013yearofthehouse

She's been upgraded now, paying £12.50. Are there any ISPs that provide unlimited broadband for less than that without line rental? She said she would move line rental, but only if she could still use 18185, which I think Sky block, is that right? Which companies let you use 18185 on their line rental?

Like I said, i'm paying £9.99 for unlimited with Plusnet without line rental, but I must be on sone kind of special offer as theirs seems to be £12.49 now.

Thanks

penrhyn

How long left on the BT contract?

duchy

If she moves her line rental to Sky odds are she'll get a half price line rental deal for six months and her unlimited BB will be £7.50 so depending on how long is left on the BT contract it *may* work out cheaper to move the line rental early . You'd need to crunch the numbers to see.

£5 a month gets her unlimited landline calls 24/7 plus most overseas calls free-so depending on her call pattern that may work out cheaper than reduced rate with 18185 anyway.

2013yearofthehouse

penrhyn wrote: »

How long left on the BT contract?

I'm not sure, potentially none, it was a 12 month auto renewing contract that she'd had for years, which I've read (since my earlier posts) potentially doesn't exist anymore as auto renew is no longer allowed for 12 months at a time. So turns out her main reason for not leaving BT is that she would like to contine using 18185.

2013yearofthehouse

duchy wrote: »

If she moves her line rental to Sky odds are she'll get a half price line rental deal for six months and her unlimited BB will be £7.50 so depending on how long is left on the BT contract it *may* work out cheaper to move the line rental early . You'd need to crunch the numbers to see.

£5 a month gets her unlimited landline calls 24/7 plus most overseas calls free-so depending on her call pattern that may work out cheaper than reduced rate with 18185 anyway.

She makes a few daytime/weekday calls a month, but often up to an hour long. Her 18185 bill is tiny though.

duchy

Sky unlimited is a fiver for calls up to an hour -is tiny more or less than that ? (bear in mind you need to offset the extra she's currently paying to have BB without Sky Talk) Or to put it another way she's currently paying £5 extra for BB (from your figures above) so essentially she'd be diverting that £5 to the unlimited call package so no need for even a tiny 18185 bill.

2013yearofthehouse

duchy wrote: »

Sky unlimited is a fiver for calls up to an hour -is tiny more or less than that ? (bear in mind you need to offset the extra she's currently paying to have BB without Sky Talk) Or to put it another way she's currently paying £5 extra for BB (from your figures above) so essentially she'd be diverting that £5 to the unlimited call package so no need for even a tiny 18185 bill.

Sorry, by tiny I meant 10-20p a month

2013yearofthehouse

After deciding she will just switch line rentals to sky, so that she can get the discount to £7.50, she's been having great fun trying to do so!

Tried online and got a message saying there were no options available to her for skytalk. Tried online chat and they didn't even know there was such a thing as paying £12.50 and couldn't advise how to reduce this cost apart from providing a link to the offers page, which only have TV offers not BB/phone ones. They then transferred her to a different advisor, whose only suggestion was to downgrade back to "lite" even though she said she wanted to keep the unlimited!

So I guess the only way she can move her line rental is to ring them? Since it's premium rate, she'll wait until it might be quieter, plus she said she has to try and remember her password first! Haha