Currently with Sky

someanonbloke

Hi, for the last 12 months I was paying £27.50/month for Fibre Unltd and Line rental with Sky. I don't use the landline for calls.

So, £27.50 seemed reasonable except now the price has gone up to £37.50 because it was a 12 month 'offer' which has now expired.

I got through to retentions and the best they could offer was £7.50 off the new price.

I can't go with Virgin because the cable is not fitted in my area.

BT are more expensive.

So, what else is left? Talk Talk? I don't know much about them but have heard horror stories along with BT.

Not sure I have many options but to stay with Sky and their new price.

If I take on the Sky Sports package what kind of price could I haggle?

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someanonbloke wrote: »

Hi, for the last 12 months I was paying £27.50/month for Fibre Unltd and Line rental with Sky. I don't use the landline for calls.

So, £27.50 seemed reasonable except now the price has gone up to £37.50 because it was a 12 month 'offer' which has now expired.

I got through to retentions and the best they could offer was £7.50 off the new price.

I can't go with Virgin because the cable is not fitted in my area.

BT are more expensive.

So, what else is left? Talk Talk? I don't know much about them but have heard horror stories along with BT.

Not sure I have many options but to stay with Sky and their new price.

If I take on the Sky Sports package what kind of price could I haggle?

If you discount all horror stories with BT, they are actually offering BT Infinity 1 with unrestricted download at £29.49 a month (EXPENSIVE), however, BT are also offering a £100 MasterCard with this - STILLL EXPENSIVE - until you look at CashBack sites and learn that TopCashBack and Quidco will give you at least £100-£110 cashback, making a saving of £200 minimum if all works out well. In other words, you can get fibre at 52Mb down, plus line rental for about £18 per month after all charges and cash backs applied. More information on this can be found at HotUKDeals and a big thread on it. By comparison, with Sky I'm currently paying £20 per month for ASDL2 unlimited and Anytime calls, so, for £5 extra a month I could get Fibre, of course you have a £50 quid set up charge, so will stick with Sky, but if you need fibre, the BT offer is cheap as long as all Cashbacks pay out - which are not guaranteed, but to-date this punter has never had a failed CashBack.

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Also consider Vodafone. That's who I recently switched to, £23 a month. That's for standard broadband. Fibre currently unavailable.

someanonbloke

Not sure I'll bother chasing the cashback deal with BT. I think I'll stick with Sky. I might try and get a deal with the sports package - let's see.

shaggy

I was with sky broadband for years then switched BT infinity. With their cashback on quidco and their pre loaded MasterCard they worked out cheapest for me and so far have been great. Apart from some issues with their router always cutting out a few times a day - a problem which was easily fixed by changing the wireless frequency, no thanks to their support who just read off a script.

But the best thing imho about bt is their router - many people have commented on the brilliant reception despite it being tucked away two floors up and I can get good forestick streaming downstairs without any buffering as well - this will be priceless for me when I shortly love house to a much bigger house and garden and need longer range rwceptoon

McKneff

If my other half would do without Sky sports, i would leave the lot of them and buy a humax box. Has all the featores, rewind record, all the free progs. An initial cost but no monthly charge. Only phone and BB to pay for

Raxiel

£7.50 off was the best they could do me on the phone too, but if you also have TV they might be able to give you a big discount on that to make up for it.

Another alternative is to say you want to cancel on the website, and that you've found a better deal. That offered me a button for flat £10 off for 12 months without even speaking to anyone.

Muhasib

Have you thought about the NowTV combo? For fibre with the entertainment package it's £29.99 and you get £88 cash back it's £44 setup with no contract or £22 with 12 month contract and you get the smartbox