Sky price hike

koolpc

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Well, sky are upping line rental charges plus I get charged for not having a tv package with them!

So, I want to leave sky.

Best ISP? Can't get cable.

Is it possible to go to a short term ISP and then back to sky to grab the free deals they offer new customers? They don't offer any deals to existing customers
 
a lot of suppliers will let you pay line rental up front for a year and it works out at like £9.50 a month instead of £14 (or whatever they are chanrging now) so if your happy with service otherwise it might be worth asking
also when you threaten to quit the first thing they do is offer line rental discount
 
Look at IDNet or AAISP who both do a 30 day rolling contract. I've been with both in the past and they are very good, especially AAISP. I only left because I was lured over to the darks side (BT Infinity!)
 
I asked the sky rep if they would offer me a deal and he said no.

My exchange is quite good as lots of ISP's to choose from
 
koolpc said:
Well, sky are upping line rental charges plus I get charged for not having a tv package with them!

So, I want to leave sky.

Best ISP? Can't get cable.

Is it possible to go to a short term ISP and then back to sky to grab the free deals they offer new customers? They don't offer any deals to existing customers
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You realize if you move from Sky you will have to move your line back to BT unless you find an ISP that offers lines also?

BT are also upping their line rental around Jan time i think to more than Sky.

Edit: looks like its going up to 14.70 as of December

Line rental increase from December to £14.70
 
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Koolpc,

I am with Sky also and had the letter re line rental increase. Unfortunately I would not say this is Sky's full doing as if you go on BT's website it even shows they are knocking their prices up to £15. something per month.. Sky are still £1 cheaper a month for line rental.

If you are on Sky's LLU package as well and have no access to Cable - stick with Sky!
 
We were with https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/homepage for years and they were very reliable, don't cap/throttle bandwidth and are a reasonable price. They also offer phone.
We did however recently make a switch to http://www.talktalk.co.uk/ but this was mainly due to price. So far they've been fine and we even got a new phone number and they waved all installation/set up charges. I doubt you'll beat their price and for us the service is great, much better than a few years ago.
~Steve
 
Once my advance payment of Sky Line Rental is up, I am considering moving to Plus Net for Phone Line and Fibre Broadband up to 76mb, would this be a bad move?
 
Whilst their phone line + basic broadband rental is competitive v's BT's - Their fibre package isn't and their basic TV package keeps going up year on year by a pound aswell!
 
Well, I will def be moving

Just hope it can be done smoothly as last time I tried there was a week between change over when I was promised a smooth non loss of service!

So I cancelled
 
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mrbell1984 said:
Sky isn't doing themselves favors by keep price hiking. If things become more expensive people will only leave. As I know 10 people who have left due to price hikes lately.
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Problem is that most other places are also putting prices up and when you include the totally unlimited broadband for £7.50 the deal looks a lot better. BT's line rental is going to around £16 soon I think?

Bt price increases from January.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5403-bt-line-rental-to-rise-over-15-from-january-2013.html
 
MissChief said:
Problem is that most other places are also putting prices up and when you include the totally unlimited broadband for £7.50 the deal looks a lot better. BT's line rental is going to around £16 soon I think?

Bt price increases from January.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5403-bt-line-rental-to-rise-over-15-from-january-2013.html
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The more the go up the more people will leave (unless ofcourse the service is fantastic).

If more companies keep putting up bills people just won't be able to buy anything (unless this is the objective?) who knows.
 
mrbell1984 said:
The more the go up the more people will leave (unless ofcourse the service is fantastic).

If more companies keep putting up bills people just won't be able to buy anything (unless this is the objective?) who knows.
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But if everyone is putting up prices they won't get it much cheaper elsewhere?
 
norm said:
£20 for an unlimited fiber connection isn't competitive? :confused::confused:

Plus there's £80 cashback on Quidco atm.
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bah! - £20 is only for their 40/10 fibre service + they charge £50 for installation.
Bt are doing full 80 Down / 20 MB up for £20 for 4 months, then £26 pm after. Whereas sky charge £30 pm for the same service. (Theres cashback for BT too on TCB)

Sky customer services are getting pretty crap these days too. I gave my notice expecting a call back from their retentions team. They didn't bother calling me, when I eventually called them back they said I had to wait for the 'win-back' team to call me, no such call materialised so bye-bye sky. Havn't looked back since getting BT Infinity 2.

Seems to me that unless they can coax you into taking one of their rip-off TV packages - they're not really interested in phone/broadband as they make minimal profit from it. Its the TV packages they make money from (Not to mention the fact they put up even the basic TV package every single year too!)

PS - Beware of misschief's input - biased as I think he/she works for sky ;)
 
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I also just called sky and payed 12 months upfront @ £119.40. As its a one off payment, line rental on the bill will be free for 12 months (if that makes sense)
 
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