TV & Broadband - New customer

lambert91

Next week I will be moving house and therefore need to find a new TV & broadband deal.
I am looking for:

unlimited broadband
sky sports (ideally all channels)
BT sports

Looking online, I am seeing prices of around £80+ per month for all of this. Are discounts likely for new customers if I ring up or go on live chat?

iniltous

I'm not sure you can get what you want from one provider, Sky don't offer the entire Sky Sports package to BT to resell, and although BT Sport is available on Sky , it's BT that sell the subscription ...generally cheap BT Sport is if you take BT Broadband , and cheap Sky broadband is if you take Sky TV.

JJ_Egan

Price them both up one via BT + BT Sport + Sky Sports
Likewise Sky + Sky Sports + BT Sport .


Difficult to get an exact price as they keep changing deals .
Sky Sports on BT is £28.pm

BT Superfast fibre and full BT Sport HD is circa £50 pm .


If you are currently with either SKY or BT it would be worth speaking to them re a home move .

lambert91

I have just seen the virgin full house sports bundle £77 per month which includes all sky sports channels,all BT sports channels and much faster broadband. Also has £220 cashback through topcashback so comes down to £60.75 which sounds too good to be true?

JJ_Egan

Last year i looked at the same VM and price was around £55-£60 on a deal .As it was i missed the deal by a day or so.
New house has VM supply ?? have you checked .

lambert91

They need to install it as the new estate doesn't have it yet... Reading numerous negative customer comments on a virgin media FB post has put me off slightly...

smallblueplanet

Sky are supposedly going to offer BT Sport via their own platform starting sometime mid year.
https://www.sky.com/help/articles/get-bt-sport-on-sky

You should be able to get a deal on BT Sport via Plusnet if you have their broadband (I've currently got BT Sport HD at half price for 6 months).

Neil_Jones

lambert91 wrote: »

They need to install it as the new estate doesn't have it yet... Reading numerous negative customer comments on a virgin media FB post has put me off slightly...

You will always read more bad comments about any company than you do good comments. After all if Virgin pee somebody off the first thing they do is scribble on Facebook or a forum "Virgin did this that and the other, they're totally useless, please avoid". Yet if Virgin bend over backwards for somebody that person doesn't immediately jump onto MSE and scribble "Virgin did this that and the other, best company ever, everybody should be with them". No, the praise comment is rarely posted, but the complaint one is almost guaranteed.

That being said if everybody took negative customer comments seriously nobody would ever move provider.