Sky Broadband Unlimited no longer free with Sky Sports
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We have recently had Fibre Optic broadband in our area so I started looking into prices. At the moment I'm on Sky BB Unlimited free for 12 months as I subscribe to Sky Sports. Looking into it on the website and after a brief call to Sky it seems this offer doesn't exist anynore and if I were to upgrade to fibre I would end up paying £20 per month. As I also subscribe to BT Sport it will make it cheaper for me to get my broadband from BT when the 12 months expires and get BT Sport free.
Sky are likely to loose a lot of Broadband customers to BT or am I missing something?
Sky are likely to loose a lot of Broadband customers to BT or am I missing something?
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If it means TalkTalk shut down their call centres on the moon it will be worth it just for that.
Just left cause of their ineptness!!!!!
Whenever I look to switch to BT their prices are so expensive for unlimited compared to other providers.
Their base fibre package is capped at 40gb per month. What's the point of having superfast speed if you can only download a tiny amount?
We get through between 200-300gb per month.
I thought their price for unlimited on the 36mb speed wasn't to bad, only a few quid more than the capped service, is that not right?
And then the higher speed (76mb) is a few quid again. I find it worthwhile also for the hotspots, which, as they are based on every customers home hub (if you opt in), you can generally always find a signal somewhere.
Their price for broadband and fibre is higher than Sky, but if your going to subscribe to the BT Sports channels it's cheaper to pay the bit extra for their broadband and save the £12 per month subscription. That was the reason Sky had this offer for free broadband to Sports subscribers in the first place.
Sky £16.50 line rental + £20 fibre unlimited + £12 BT Sports
BT 16.99 line rental + £26 fibre unlimited + £0 BT Sports
Those figures are after introductory offers
Standard unlimited broadband it's a similar saving.
Sky line rental is 15.40 NOT 16.50 plus you get free caller display so the £12 FREE bt sports turns out to be BT sports costs £2 more with SKY than BT
YOU OPT OUT of BT wifi it is SNEAKILY turned on automatically
The home hotspot is only for a fraction of the bandwidth, ONLY if there is some spare capacity and gives no access to the home network!
Line rental. BT £15.99 vs Sky £15.40 basic - but BT have Line rental saver at £11.75 and Sky do not (not available any longer!)
BT £23 for unlimited 40Gb Infinity vs Sky £20. The £26 quoted is for 80Gb FTTC which is £30 with Sky.
Caller display is still free on BT with any 12 months contract.
Therefore BT are CHEAPER (with Line Rental Saver) - even without BT Sport!!!!!
it was never made PERFECTLY CLEAR to me or ant of the people I know on BT and if you want to turn it off on your router it is so hidden its ridiculous
no where on the adverts for free bt wifi (with your bt bb) does it say sharing of your connection is needed
and this ONLY if there is spare capacity the router automatically reserves its BT wifi and fon networks before setting the speed available to you.
its only the amount of connectable users that is limited but at 54 this isnt a small limit
BT are getting 2 payments for the same connection
You CANNOT turn it off BTW. You have to ask BT to do this - which they will. You then lose ALL access to other hotspots - which seems fair to me!
so you are getting 40Meg or your bt infinity line
and it seems fair that BT can sell YOUR internet connection for £30 a month and PAY you nothing for it.
As I said BT WiFi/FON is limited to a small fraction of my 40Mb - and only if no-one in my family is using it!
If I do not want BT WiFi access when out of my house I simply ask and BOTH my own hotsport and my access to everyone elses is disabled!
Very fair to me!
yes you pay for 40 meg BT the system reserves its wifi requirements and the gives you the rest yes it is a fraction but the still make it sneaky the way they sell it
Sorry £23 is right, I did say it was off top of my head. BT is even better value then, especially if you pay line rental up front. As I said Sky will need to address this when our 12 month contracts run out.
Unlimited upto 76Mbit/s FTTC: £19.99
Line rental: £14.50
Caller display: £0.99 (optional)
BT Sport: £5.99 (£7.49 if you want HD)
That gets you BT Sport via a Sky box only- you need a viewing card in the box though you don't have to be an active Sky customer. You don't get the BT portal online streaming access.
Big bonus- you never, ever have to deal with BT!
(Yes, ironically Plusnet are a BT company...)
edit: looks like "line rental saver" is also available- pay the years rental in advance and it drops to the equivalent of £10.99 per month.
This is correct for the 40 Mbps option, BT Wifi gets a max of 5Mbps dropping to 500Kbps when the connection is in use but on the 80 Mbps package , BT Wifi appears to get 5 Mbps regardless.
Where are they selling your connection for £30 a month, and as for payment, your payment for it is the ability to use everyone elses, which seems fair to me.
If you don't want to use everybody elses, then you can ask for yours to be disabled, again, seems fair to me, don't see what your problem is.
Thanks, that's worth looking into. :-D
Plusnet plus BT Sport also works out much the same as BT with "free" BT sport - so take your pick!
If you are correct Sky will be soon copying BT in charging extra for Caller Display and Voicemail!
They had better be careful as Sky (unlike BT and most others) no longer offer Line Rental Saver and, with any more rises, could easily price themselves out of the market!