Tesco Bank Broadband Offer and SKY's amazing response

Windows

This morning my postie brought me my Tesco Mobile Phone bill but included was an offer for:

"Free unlimited broadband and inclusive Evening and Weekend calls for customers within our network area, who take Tesco line rental at £14.90 per month" - http://www.tescobroadband.com/bank

Paying £25.31 per month for Sky broadband and Weekend calls immediately I saw at least a £10p/m saving as I was coming up to the end of contract with Sky.

So I rang Sky and told them I planned to leave due to this offer. Anyway after not too much pushing for a better deal I was offered the following.

£14.20/pm (on a new 12 month contract) which is 70p cheaper than Tesco and £11.11p/m cheaper than I have been paying.

This new offer breaks down as follows:

Line rental: £140.40 upfront (£11.70p/m) from £15.31p/m
Broadband: £2.50p/m from £10.00 p/m

Sky have just emailed me this offer is called: Broadband Unlimited Free For 12 Months - Existing UK Customers(Recontract).

This is going to save me £133.32 during this year; nearly half of what I was paying.

I did not have to haggle for this; just had to stand my ground (especially about "traffic management" - i.e. Tesco might slow you down at certain time and we never will) so why not give it a go?

teddysmum

The line rental isn't a special offer, as anyone can save by paying up front and the Sky offer does not include evening calls, as does Tesco's.

Windows

I agree with the line rental point it was something I should have done previously.

Even with this excluded this is still a £7.50p/m saving for almost no effort.

chanz4

never had an issue with speed been slowed down, Im on tesco