What counts as new customer for Sky broadband offers?

darkazuria

Hi. My partner and my currently have Sky for broadband in our flat but we will be cancelling as we have just bought a house and will be moving soon .

We've seen that Sky is currently doing good offers for new customers. 

If my partner was to sign up to Sky for the new House (different name and new address) would he be considered new customer?

(I am the main account holder for our current Sky subscription.)

Isthisforreal99

What do you mean 'main account holder' - suspect you mean only account holder as I don't think there is such a thing as a sky joint account.

Which would mean your partner is a new customer if he were to apply in his name.

iniltous

You could do that , your partner becomes the account holder at the new address to benefit from the new customer deals but you need to weigh that against any potential early termination charges you will get when you move out of your flat for quitting early , if you happen to be outside a minimum term with Sky and all you need is to give 30 days notice, so basically can leave without penalty anyway , chances are the deal you could get in your name and the new customer deals your partner could get won’t be that different, after all if you have no early termination charges to consider, when you move into the flat and sign up with Sky , they won’t know or care you were a Sky customer previously , that’s if you don’t tell them .

hopefully you don’t think you can just leave the flat and ignore the early termination charges if they are due  , and your partner signs up , that’s not a good idea as they may put a mark on your credit history and use debt recovery anyway .

sammyjammy

iniltous said:

hopefully you don’t think you can just leave the flat and ignore the early termination charges if they are due  , and your partner signs up , that’s not a good idea as they may put a mark on your credit history and use debt recovery anyway .

no suggestion in OPs post that they planned to do this!

iniltous

sammyjammy said:

iniltous said:

hopefully you don’t think you can just leave the flat and ignore the early termination charges if they are due  , and your partner signs up , that’s not a good idea as they may put a mark on your credit history and use debt recovery anyway .

no suggestion in OPs post that they planned to do this!

I never suggested they were planning to do this either , pointing out the ramifications of an action isn’t an accusation  , only the paranoid or those with a persecution complex would think it was