Cancelling Sky Broadband, move to BT

zorber

Again unless your a new customer they are not interested.

I want to upgrade to fibre but im not paying top wack when new customers are getting half price.

unfortunately i still have 8 months left on this contract.

Going back to the OP dont cancel as you will terminate your phone line and end up with a massive reconection charge. You may already have this. This happened to me a couple of years ago and plusnet in the end picked up the tab for reconnection but only in exchange for a 2 year contract.

zorber

So i took the plunge and ordered BT fibre.
The deal on the topcashback is £140 for broadband tv and calls.
also for the infinity they are giving £100 mastercard till the 28th April, I work out that the master card will cover my exit fees from sky. the cashback will give me the same deal as a new customer taking up skys offer of £10/month.
I get slightly faster fibre then sky and also bt sports tv thrown in.

DavidP24

I remember feeling that way myself years ago about paying Sky so much. In those days Sky was going after all the series on E4 and C4 then putting up subscriptions, effectively making us pay for all this "great TV" that we were previously getting free.

The tipping point for me was that when I stepped down from movies they would not let me watch those on my Sky Plus box that I had not seen, so I cancelled the whole SkyTV Contract

You will find Freeview or Freesat fine with a PVR function, you could pick up a YouView box off eBay or use a DVD with PVR function.

I did that for a bit but I decided to get rid of it and found a way to cut back completely to the point where I do not even need a TV License (saves another £144 a year).

I did this more for reasons of lifestyle, I found myself hating the way TV is dished up, all these “coming up” and “Previously” or the ads. I was not watching that much live TV so got rid of it.

What I use is something called Plex (Plex.TV), it has been described as your own personal Netflix, it has SERVER and a CLIENT, the server can be a half decent £120 headless quad core PC from ebay with a big hard disk, the client can be an Ipad, Laptop, TV (via a Roku box) or even your mobile phone. The irony here for Sky is you can get one of their £9.99 NowTV devices without a subscription (so no live TV) and stick Plex on it, although some prefer to pay for a better Roku. The NowTV device is a rebadged low end Roku.

Plex Server is really simple, you install it on a PC, point it at a hard disk location with your media downloads and it goes off and gets all the images etc. There is a forum at Plex.TV that helps people, some like to install on big expensive media centres or NAS units but truth is you do not need to.

One of the coolest features of Plex is that you can share your server and access your content remotely (watch a movie on the train home).

You can see a demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wKSPX7QRMTk#t=44

With regard to moving BB, I would definitely inform Sky you are leaving them, there have been stories of BB being moved but not the phone line.

I gave Sky a month’s notice on my TV, they told me I did not even need to give notice but I did anyway and they still carried on charging me for 3 months. Took 3rd party intervention to get my money back.

Buck_Tarbrush wrote: »

I cancelled the Sky TV last week & have had no offers put on my page. I have now decided to go the whole quit-Sky hog & have just now signed up for the Plusnet £16.99 per month with free unlimited broadband for 12 months plus £50 cashback deal which ends tomorrow. We'll do Freeview for a while & see how we get on with that as I'm no longer prepared to pay the best part of £500 per year for TV that we simply don't watch enough of to justify.

Anyhow, should I inform Sky myself that we're leaving or is it automatically part of the switching process as it is with gas/electric. I don't want to be paying Sky any more than I have to.

Thanks.