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whos the best fibre in the UK currently.
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Asking for a friend, please note Virgin media isn't avabile where they live. they want 76MB. Unlimited.
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What are you talking about? I count 21 in HD + 1 in UHD + how ever many are available via Freeview these days
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46017/~/what-channels-are-available-on-bt-tv%3F
BT do indeed have HD channels all bt sports plus Albi,W,AMC,Nat geo, nat geo wild, discover, syfy to name a few that are in HD on bttv.
Been with Sky Plusnet and now BT since fibre went, happily recommend all of them, when the price is right.
When the contract finishes I will be due to pay an extra £20 pm, I did get a good deal at the time .... I will have to sharpen up my negotiation skills, I would settle for £5-10 more for what I have but if they don't come across then I will be in the market.
Hope not because Sky fibre and call packages have been good.
BT TV has lots of HD channels..
I'm on Sky fibre and my contact was due to end and was going to go up from £10 to £20...so I phoned and was told no deals were available so I said to the guy that I would give BT a ring in that case. I came of the phone and went to the "thinking of leaving" option on the Sky website and clicked the reason for leaving and quoted BT as being a better deal and was offered a deal of continuing for a further 12 months at £10 a month
https://sales.talktalk.co.uk/product/fibre/a-fibre
Yep Sky Fibre is the best and has the highest ratings on most credible sites.
BT is way overpriced, has terrible support based in India when things go wrong (and with BT, things always go wrong), and the speeds are not up to par.
I've tested most ISP's in the UK and have always found Sky to be better than all of them.
The new Sky Q Hub is an awesome piece of kit too.
On proper review sites, and not the ones the ISPs pay to advertise on, that isn't even close to being true.
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php
If your problem relates to a line fault and nothing to do with the core network, then those faults will manifest regardless of your provider.
Given that Sky manages to mess up my TV account every time I've called in about it, I wouldn't hold out much hope of them sorting out broadband and phone too.
It doesn't matter so much where the support is based (and BT is slowly moving it back to the UK), what matters is how well trained they are and/or how much initiative they're allowed to display, beyond script reading. It's all well and good speaking to a clueless rep with a British accent, but ultimately they're just as useless as a clueless rep with an Indian accent.
Is this the official word of the Sky PR dept?
It's as mediocre as any ISP supplied router. At least BT, TalkTalk and co allow you to change it for something else if you don't like it. Sky actively stop you from doing this.
So have I, and i'm currently with Sky for one of my lines, and they're no better or worse than any of the bigger ISPs I've used. Sky are decidedly average I'd say.
For the best, at least in terms of CS you need to be looking at one of the smaller, more business oriented ISPs and be prepared to pay for it...
It's typical ISP supplied, consumer grade tat, only with less ethernet connections than most other ISP supplied routers.
And of course Sky being Sky, it's locked down and they go out of their way to make it hard for your average, non technical user to use a better/replacement router...
Be aware that the speeds you get with FTTC are dependent on how far you are from the fibre cabinet. Your friend may want 76meg but unless they are within a few hundred metres of the cabinet they will not get this.