Temporary Internet Bridge

CinderKona

HI all,
I've decided to ditch BT/EE after some 6 years as the service and connectivity has become woeful as they move towards partnering with EE, so i am moving to Sky. My start date is 2nd April which is 2 days after my grace period ends with my BT renewed contract. I plan to tell BT on the 30th of March that I wish to cease. However if they decide to cut me off immediately is there some temporary internet I can get so I can continue to work from home?
Thanks

booneruk

I work 3 days a week at home and my job involves the internet. I've therefore equipped myself with a 4G+ router (I think I got it for around £80 on Amazon) and arm it with one of the cheap Lebara/Lyca mobile SIM only deals listed on this site. Typically I can get around 12GB of bandwidth each month for less than £3. 

That's not much bandwidth, I wouldn't be watching endless Netflix etc on it, but it works as a backup should my main internet connection fail. You could also get much larger data allowances on the SIM.

Typically I get about 20Mbps of speed using it (around the same as a base level broadband connection), your mileage will vary though, depending on signal strength and congestion.

Also, you could switch your mobile phone into tethering mode and connect your PC/Mac/Laptop to it via wifi.

littleboo

If you are moving between one Openreach-based provider to another Openreach-based provider, you don't need to tell the losing provider.

etienneg

I think you have to give BT 30 days notice to terminate, even when you are out of contract.

CinderKona

Thanks etienneg said:

I think you have to give BT 30 days notice to terminate, even when you are out of contract.

Thanks not sure I'm out of contract as I renewed but I'm now in the 14 day grace period.
Good idea on the 4G router's above.
Thanks all.

iniltous

So you renewed with BT but have no intention of actually staying with BT , and in the cooling off period you intend to leave , but you haven’t told BT this yet , and simultaneously you  have already signed up with Sky and already have a date for their service to start ? ,

If you wanted to join Sky , why did you renew with BT and not just move to Sky , as Sky serve your notice to BT , how have you managed to join Sky and not had  a ‘sorry to see you go’ letter from BT if Sky are taking over the line that the BT service is already using ? .

Unless you have ordered FTTP from Sky and renewed a copper based service ( ADSL or VDSL ) with BT , this is almost certainly going to go wrong, unless you in the next few days get a sorry to see you go letter from BT , if you do then your renewal with BT will not take affect l but it also may cause your Sky order to be cancelled .

Why on earth would you this , sign up for a renewal and instigate a migration at the same time , what you have done is ridiculous , if it goes wrong , it’s your own fault 

Neil_Jones

CinderKona said:

HI all,
I've decided to ditch BT/EE after some 6 years as the service and connectivity has become woeful as they move towards partnering with EE, so i am moving to Sky. My start date is 2nd April which is 2 days after my grace period ends with my BT renewed contract. I plan to tell BT on the 30th of March that I wish to cease. However if they decide to cut me off immediately is there some temporary internet I can get so I can continue to work from home?
Thanks

You do realise your "grace" period is just to go back on your old contract to where you were (near enough) before, its not a get out of jail card, and I suspect if you've entered a few fixed term arrangement with BT, you're going to be charged a fortune in exit fees when Sky apply to take your line over.

What you should have done in the first place was just sign up with Sky.  That's it.  You don't need to talk to BT.

By doing what you're done you've complicated everything.

GrumpyDil

Surely the other option would have been to let your contract switch onto default with BT rather that doing a renewal.

As everyone else is saying doing a renewal and then cancelling it within the 14 day cooling off may well end up in tears. 

CinderKona

iniltous said:

So you renewed with BT but have no intention of actually staying with BT , and in the cooling off period you intend to leave , but you haven’t told BT this yet , and simultaneously you  have already signed up with Sky and already have a date for their service to start ? ,

If you wanted to join Sky , why did you renew with BT and not just move to Sky , as Sky serve your notice to BT , how have you managed to join Sky and not had  a ‘sorry to see you go’ letter from BT if Sky are taking over the line that the BT service is already using ? .

Unless you have ordered FTTP from Sky and renewed a copper based service ( ADSL or VDSL ) with BT , this is almost certainly going to go wrong, unless you in the next few days get a sorry to see you go letter from BT , if you do then your renewal with BT will not take affect l but it also may cause your Sky order to be cancelled .

Why on earth would you this , sign up for a renewal and instigate a migration at the same time , what you have done is ridiculous , if it goes wrong , it’s your own fault 

I renewed with BT/EE with the intention of staying with them, then the cost was ramped up once i received the contract. It then transpired that they had moved me to EE and increased the cost.
I spoke to BT/EE yesterday, after the first posting on this thread, and the new contract (the 3rd this year) started Friday 15th, so i told the colleague that i intended to cancel and she said then that's fine, do nothing and as Sky is also on openreach then then they will sort it out.
Anyway, the thread is about temporary internet.

iniltous

If you have effectively cancelled your recontracting of BT and have signed up with Sky ( using the correct process ) then you shouldn’t have any need for temporary broadband, the day you get Sky is the same day your BT service ceases , BT continues to work right until the Sky service starts , on that day (when BT stops working)  , you disconnect the BT router and connect the Sky router in its place and Sky should kick in .

The fact is when you joined Sky and they gave you a date , pretty soon after Sky enter the order ( and to give you a date they have to enter an order ) , you should have received a sorry to see you leave communication from BT , if you haven’t received that , then that suggests you haven’t ( or Sky haven’t ) followed the correct process.