Moved from Virgin to Sky and saved!

tickerhacker

About 6 years ago I seem to remember initially paying no more than £25 per month for a Virgin Media bundle (phone/TV/broadband). With Virgin's regular price increases it was approaching £60 per month by end of 2016 with no additional services added.

I think it was the fact that days would go by without anyone in the household watching any television that prompted the change but I suppose it was apathy on my part for having left it so long. Thanks to the moneysavingexpert email I grabbed one of the discount codes for Sky and now have phone and unlimited fibre broadband for just £18.70/month for the first year. I just had to pay an extra £20 up-front for a new line (which I think is a very good price). For TV we can easily get by enjoying Freeview, DVDs, streaming services, and (as soon as I reconnect the dish) FreeSat.

I've treated us to a new HD TV with some of the savings!

editor1

tickerhacker wrote: »

About 6 years ago I seem to remember initially paying no more than £25 per month for a Virgin Media bundle (phone/TV/broadband). With Virgin's regular price increases it was approaching £60 per month by end of 2016 with no additional services added.

I think it was the fact that days would go by without anyone in the household watching any television that prompted the change but I suppose it was apathy on my part for having left it so long. Thanks to the moneysavingexpert email I grabbed one of the discount codes for Sky and now have phone and unlimited fibre broadband for just £18.70/month for the first year. I just had to pay an extra £20 up-front for a new line (which I think is a very good price). For TV we can easily get by enjoying Freeview, DVDs, streaming services, and (as soon as I reconnect the dish) FreeSat.

I've treated us to a new HD TV with some of the savings!

Let me get this correct, have you signed up to the Sky Broadband and phone deal, the one that is actually £12.00 per month via the MSE code from Sky, or have you signed for Sky TV or Sky fibre, which is a different beast, alas, if its just the BB & Phone service, you are paying £5 more than currently available, if its Fibre, then all is sweet, and if TV is involved, then I'm not one to comment as download all my media consumption - if living in the UK I'd personally have to be on fibre, but my elderly parents just need a phone and some limited internet services, so 17Mb regular BB is fine.

tickerhacker

editor1 wrote: »

Let me get this correct, have you signed up to the Sky Broadband and phone deal, the one that is actually £12.00 per month via the MSE code from Sky, or have you signed for Sky TV or Sky fibre, which is a different beast, alas, if its just the BB & Phone service, you are paying £5 more than currently available, if its Fibre, then all is sweet, and if TV is involved, then I'm not one to comment as download all my media consumption - if living in the UK I'd personally have to be on fibre, but my elderly parents just need a phone and some limited internet services, so 17Mb regular BB is fine.

It is the unlimited fibre broadband (and phone) deal which provides 40Mbps down and a very nifty 10Mbps up. I don't believe that the price is more than current offers: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cheap-broadband#skyfibre