Moving on from Sky Broadband

debthelp1

A bit of a luddite so bear with me......my contract at Sky has ended so now they want £38 a month for broadband.

I had superfast fibre package so been looking around who offers the same speeds in my area and Plusnet seems best at £26 a month

I am wondering if they need to do anything with the wiring etc at the house or can they just use the existing cable? The socket on the wall has Openreach written on it if that helps...

Exodi

They won't need to change anything, the connection runs off the same lines, just swap the router over with the one they send.

debthelp1

That's great thank you, Plusnet seems to have good reviews

flaneurs_lobster

The Sky superfast fibre product is FTTC (copper cable to your house). It might be that the Plusnet product is FTTP (fibre optic cable to your house) which means a new cable run to your premises and a new terminal box inside.

What exactly is the Plusnet package you are looking at?

debthelp1

flaneurs_lobster said:

The Sky superfast fibre product is FTTC (copper cable to your house). It might be that the Plusnet product is FTTP (fibre optic cable to your house) which means a new cable run to your premises and a new terminal box inside.

What exactly is the Plusnet package you are looking at?

it is this one here

https://www.plus.net/deals/fibre/?affiliate=moneysavingexpert&bannerId=fibre-so-affmse&utm_source=moneysavingexpert&utm_medium=res-affiliate&utm_content=&utm_campaign=fibre-so-affmse&mkt_id=con_pn_dg-home_awin_aff&WT.mc_id=aff_003

AndrewJB

Why not switch to NOW Broadband? It's owned by Sky:
https://www.nowtv.com/broadband

If you currently have an SR203 router, you will be able to keep it. You can also try getting cashback for the switch.

I think their FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet - old service using copper cable to the home) service is currently £27pm, but if there is the option of upgrading to FTTP (Fibre To The Premises - new service using fibre cable to the home), you should be able to get it for £24pm, or maybe less. The best deals seem to be for full fibre these days, and at some point you will be forced to upgrade as Openreach replaces the old copper network. It will depend on if full fibre is available where you live.

Ectophile

AndrewJB said:

Why not switch to NOW Broadband? It's owned by Sky:
https://www.nowtv.com/broadband

If you currently have an SR203 router, you will be able to keep it. You can also try getting cashback for the switch.

I think their FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet - old service using copper cable to the home) service is currently £27pm, but if there is the option of upgrading to FTTP (Fibre To The Premises - new service using fibre cable to the home), you should be able to get it for £24pm, or maybe less. The best deals seem to be for full fibre these days, and at some point you will be forced to upgrade as Openreach replaces the old copper network. It will depend on if full fibre is available where you live.

NOW broadband are trying to get rid of FTTC customers.  They are pushing me to switch to Sky FTTP.

AndrewJB

Ectophile said:

AndrewJB said:

Why not switch to NOW Broadband? It's owned by Sky:
https://www.nowtv.com/broadband

If you currently have an SR203 router, you will be able to keep it. You can also try getting cashback for the switch.

I think their FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet - old service using copper cable to the home) service is currently £27pm, but if there is the option of upgrading to FTTP (Fibre To The Premises - new service using fibre cable to the home), you should be able to get it for £24pm, or maybe less. The best deals seem to be for full fibre these days, and at some point you will be forced to upgrade as Openreach replaces the old copper network. It will depend on if full fibre is available where you live.

NOW broadband are trying to get rid of FTTC customers.  They are pushing me to switch to Sky FTTP.

I think it’s more that Openreach are trying to upgrade the network to FTTP.

I was with NOW a month ago, on an FTTC service, and there was the option to remain on that for £27pm or switch to an FTTP service for £23pm (NOW powered by Sky 75Mbps). I ended up moving directly to Sky for the cashback and a faster FTTP offering (150Mbps for £23pm).

The Openreach engineer told me that if I had moved out of the property, the purchaser would be forced to switch to an FTTP service. Similarly, if I wanted to change provider, I would also be forced onto an FTTP service.

If an FTTP service is available where you live, it makes sense to switch because the best deals are now being offered for those, and, at some point, you’re going to have to do it anyway.