Sky talk good or bad, what about in the long run?

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If i change line rental to sky talk i can save £5 on sky broadband but is it really worth it?

What happens if i get it but eventually want to change again, knowing sky there's always a catch and they will no doubt put the prices up again in general anyway, im not sure what to do really, i could save a fiver on the one hand but may be more locked in to sky's services on the other. :confused:
 
Sky BB has a good reputation. It's not cheap when you consider that you *must* have a Sky TV subscription, and the cheapest TV sub is £15/month.

If you are happy with Sky TV and have no plans to leave them, then £5 for broadband and eve/we calls is pretty good.

Also they'll put you on LLU if available, so BT no longer have the duty of looking after your line. All that would be handled by Sky. That means that should you choose to change broadband provider in future, you're looking at a minimum £40 charge, as your line would now be considered a "cable" line instead of a BT line.

Contract is 12 or 18 months isn't it... but most people I know with Sky BB are happy with it.
 
FoxEye said:
Also they'll put you on LLU if available, so BT no longer have the duty of looking after your line. All that would be handled by Sky. That means that should you choose to change broadband provider in future, you're looking at a minimum £40 charge, as your line would now be considered a "cable" line instead of a BT line.
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Im already with sky and on llu but would like to save a fiver as broadband goes up by that much this year for those who have already been with them for awhile, the service is the best going around here (hopefully will continue to be!) but im unsure how handing over line rental to them would affect me in the future if i decide to change, i think you may have answered it but id like to confirm, so is that all they charge and is it a good idea do you think?

Thanks! :)
 
I went LLU myself (with TalkTalk) a few months ago. The main incentive is cost. BT charges a whole lot to ISPs who resell broadband using BT lines (IPStream), hence a lot of packages on BT lines are about £20.

With LLU, these costs can be much lower. So much so, that TT can afford to give me the same £20 service for £7.

If you want to keep your line with BT (you might!), then there's something coming soon to some exchanges called Wholesale Broadband Connect, or WBC. This will improve speeds to 24+meg (up from 8mb), but the cost of such packages will likely still be around £20 minimum, as it's still a BT wholesale product (resold by ISPs).

LLU is great, most people will tell you. It's BT losing absolute control over everything from the exchange to your house. It's allowing costs to go down. The downsides are that you pay a bit more to move from LLU ISP to LLU ISP, and you better make sure your new provider has a reasonable reputation for customer service; but since BT are largely shocking at CS themselves, that's not much of a risk.

Seriously, my anti-BT bias might be showing here, but I've had nothing but bad experiences of them. And incompetence too!

One side note: to move from LLU ISP to BT Ipstream ISP can be problematic, so I hear. BT will put you on a 12-month line rental contract and have been trying to charge some people £140 for the privellege of switching back. Good ol' BT.

Fortunately, there in many exhanges there are more than one LLU provider, so you don't have to go back to BT. And even if there's only Sky (Easynet), there are Easynet resellers who you may have better luck with.

thinkbroadband.co.uk (formerly ADSLguide) are a great place to mine for information.
 
The BB is a good service at a good price. and the Sky talk is pretty competitive as well, if you already have TV then your not loosing out at all, if you haven't got Sky TV then you need to factor the cost of that in as well.
When you have all services with sky they try to put you on SVBN (Sky voice and BB Network) but you can opt out of this and remain on BT equipment if you wish.
Also for those with all the Sky services at the moment from the 15th of January you will be able to cancel your TV but keep your BB and telephone but you have to agree to pay £2.50 extra for the service.
 
Been with Sky for a good while now, came from BT(Phone + BB) costing £66 + calls amonth / Sky(TV + TALK + MAX BB) AVE about £58. I'm about 1.5 MLS from exchange - BT 4MB PING Gaming 50+ depending on server / Sky Max 7+MB PING 32+ depending on server, very good service all round.
 
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