Sky Talk Weekends
pierreuk
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Just been told by an advisor the Sky Talk Weekends currently included in line rental is being removed from inclusive from December and will be charged at £4 per month.
I only have the landline for broadband so he said he would remove the service for me, if you're in the same boat you might want to look at that before you start being charged £4p/m for a service you don't use!
I only have the landline for broadband so he said he would remove the service for me, if you're in the same boat you might want to look at that before you start being charged £4p/m for a service you don't use!
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The interesting aspect of it though, aside from the price rise, is that they're offering unlimited calls from your landline to mobiles.
BT used to be "inclusive weekend calls" - now none
PlusNet used to be "inclusive evenings and weekends" - now none
That's interesting to know. Obviously i suppose they've realised they can charge more for the packages as add-ons.
I was irritated by not only that change but the upping in line rental too by £1 pm. I checked elsewhere and found pretty much the only other viable phone only provider (I have VM for broadband) was the Post Office (which I understand is provided by Talktalk, terrible reputation), but then I read the following day that their line rental was going up £1 pm too.
Anyway, I sat down and worked out how much my last two months calls would cost at Skys new rates and it was more than the £8 pm. I never use the landline to call mobile numbers (no doubt Skys reason for the increase), but I will take the increase of £4pm on the chin, even so I am really not happy.
The situation where all landline providers automatically increase line rental is not good, especially when there is no tangible improvement or upgrade in phone service. I presume this must be due to Openreach increasing costs to the provider. How many people out there are getting an automatic pay rise at the moment? It feels like Openreach are abusing their monopoly position (for years), I think there needs to be more competition out there. Or are we all paying for BT's sport on TV ambitions?
Ofcom are you reading this? Or haven't you got the **** to do anything about it?
Patrick
64 Minutes last month, which I think will work out about £7.36 or more.
We currently have the Anytime package with Sky but also unlimited calls on our EE mobile package.
So I have been paying twice for the same thing !!!!
The mobile coverage is good at home.
So I have cancelled the Sky Call package.
All I have to do is hide the Landline Phone !!!!
So, if you are thinking of dropping the package and going vanilla, watch out for the hefty connection charge as it may make a huge difference if you make a lot of short calls.
I had the international option as my wife's sister lived in France so they could chat on the phone for up to an hour a time for £5 a month - I must have cost Sky money! Anyway, her sister has moved back to the UK, so inclusive UK calls and mobiles will work for me.
Jeff
I've been on with live chat tonight and they've said it is because the call package is being affected.
Quidco have a £110 cashback offer to join plusnet, as well as plusnet's own £50 cashback offer, but it expires in about 5 minutes, so i've taken a punt and signed up with Plusnet in the hope that when I ring retentions tomorrow morning, I can cancel and tell them i'm switching.
If they say no, then i'm buggered
(You can tell i'm very easily amused.......)
That's extremely sly of them. I might punt that one to Ofcom.
I was referring to the way they maybe trumping the 11.5p per min call cost but relegating the 16.9p "connection fee" to the easily missed small print. I.E. hiding charges in the small print. I was not attempting to indicate whether the "initial connection fee then a fee per minute" scheme is fair or unfair per se.