You can get phone and broadband, ordered at same time from a single company, particularly the larger ISPs can offer this service. Note there will be a new connection charge as you don't currently have an old BT (openreach) phone line. This fee varies from £0 to £130. It is to cover cost of an Openreach engineer.

If you take phone AND broadband from BT, there is no new connection fee. I think Sky charge something like £20 but don't quote me. Plusnet, Talktalk and Vodafone are around £60.

There are usually some good deals around Black Friday week.

I would also check what 'estimated' fibre speed is available to your property. Anything less than 30mb for 'VDSL' for 'Downstream' suggests you are on a long phone line and could be unreliable if you are unlucky.

https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/

Consider also whether your existing phone number can be moved from VM to another provider. Sometimes it is not possible.

In our experience over past few years, 100mb cable from VM is normally 'circa' £25 pm (+£2 with line rental, weekend calls) on a retention deal, BUT you have to give 30 days notice to cancel everything, and HOPE the Outbounds team phone you with an offer within 2-4 days typically. Otherwise, you have to 'uncancel' the cancellation (keeping old contract) and repeat the process if they don't call or you miss their calls before the 30 days is up.... You won't get such retention offers by phoning and speaking to VM customer services.

How much do you pay for Sky?

I pay for the ultimate oomph package and get two boxes, all sky sports all by sports, all movies, 400 Fibre broadband AND a sim card with unlimited everything all for £99 a month. once you combine a full TV package, a mobile sim contract thats unlimited, Top level fibre broadband and phone line all rolled in it saves so much money for us. Details of package below.

Television:
1 Maxit TV
Virgin TV V6 Box, Powered By TiVo
Maxit TV
Kids Pick
Sky Sports and Cinema Collection
Personal picks
Sky Sports HD Pack
Broadband:
M500 Fibre Broadband
Telephone:
Talk More Anytime
Free Voicemail
Telephone Line Rental
Mobile:
As you've selected one of our Oomph SIM bundles, we will bill your monthly tariff here alongside your other Virgin Media services. You can view your mobile usage and allowance details separately here
Oomph Unlimited Data SIM

Hi
VM have just put my bill up again it is now £112 I have been a customer for over 20 years in 3 different properties.
The wifi is awful.
I have a TiVo box and V6 box
No sports or cinema channels apart from basic ones
M200 broadband
I am now looking at other providers but not sure if they are any better. Has anyone had experience of NOW tv broadband.

Broadband will only be as good as the BT cooper wire lines, different providers are unlikely to make a big difference, Fibre is the future and with Virgin you get a dedicated fibre line point to point where as other "fibre" providers offer fibre to the green box on your road than the bandwidth gets choked on the copper wire from the green box to your home offering very little noticeable difference.. Also you mention Wifi is bad, now do you mean the service going to the WIFI box is bad or the WIFI box is bad and delivering the signal to the house. two different problems with two different solutions.

We are paying £35 for a sky month, (but that's on a discount/deal)

Loads of NOW TV BB posts on the forum .
Twenty years of price rises ?? have you never renegotiated your contract .


Loyal just means you pay over the odds .

NOW is the budget subsidiary of SKY broadband. The dated rebadged Sky Q hub provided by NOW is not great for its wifi. NOW don't offer 200mb fibre if you really need such ultrafast fibre speeds.

Have you considered using 3rd party wifi solutions, such as low cost Tenda NW3 mesh system if 'coverage' is more important than 'max speed' across wifi, to far more expensive solutions such as Netgear Orbi product range?

I have negotiated over the years but has probably been over 3 years since I did it.
The wifi signal drops off then comes back on have a new router and boosters all over house. I am studying with open university so need to be connected at all times.
Also there are 7 of us in house with 4 of them aged 18-23 whose lives revolve around wifi..
I am on phone at moment to VM so hopefully will get something sorted

I took up the VM ultimate oomph package at £99 even though I wont need to use the limitless sim until month 11 of the contract. It was cheaper than my existing deal and gave me a second box, sky cinema, extras speed and of course the sim. The cheapest limitless sims around seem to be about £21.
However after 12 months you need to haggle again as the price goes up to £140 a month.

Oomph package is only available to existing customers.
I am going to try again over the weekend as only got offered a reduction of £9.

I would recommend NOW TV BB too

Without knowing what is available in your area it would be hard to recommend anything. My brother could get Virgin Media up to 350Mbps but using an Openreach line all he would ever have been able to get would be 11Mbps.

Why is so many people hijacking this post and not answering the actual question in regards to find a better internet provider and deal than what I am getting at virgin media...

BIB, most of Virgins network is not fibre to the home, its fibre to the cab and copper coax to the property. Virgin have a record of mismanagement of their hybrid network so that over subscription causes street level congestion which can go one forever. Their more recent network expansion is mainly full fibre.

Because you haven't given much info.

1. Is fibre available from BT or others
2. Do you need 100Mb still or near

I suggest you look yourself at https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/ or similar.

I can only strongly disagree based on my two experiences with Virgin Media, originally and after the house move we have had a separate line installed a coaxial cable I believe but far far superior to the copper wire other suse that was designed to carry voice only. (I can trace the cable to the green box) and the difference has been phenomenal both times. We have two kids who play online games that require solid and quick connection and me and the wife to be have often been streaming/playing online game sat the same time two with zero faults, skips, pauses or restrictions on band width. We have tried Sky, BT and Talk Talk in our time and after having an independent technician try and find a fault (at my own cost) it was explained to me the chocking point was the green box to the house.

I have no ties to Virgin Media but credit where credit is due my 3 years experience with them has been superb internet wise (customer service is a bit slow but i'd rather that then slow internet) and I could not recommend them highly enough for the fibre service.

I would agree, you are paying for a premium service compared with others. If you really want the cheapest go for TalkTalk but I think you will regret it.

I am not sure about other companies offering fibre here
Well it is only me and my partner that live here, we were giving 100mb free ages ago.. Not sure how much we use per month.. Is there anyway that I can find out??

The figure is not about how much you use, rather the speed at which it can be downloaded and uploaded. The 100mb refers to speed not volume.