Sky deals anyone?

[dickymint]

bad company said:

dickymint said:

Check out EE TV and broadband - you have a choice of boxes including Apple TV box (I wanted their Youview Probox because I like to record a lot of stuff) multi room is included (2 rooms) and not an extra.

For £80/month I now get broadband and TV including all TNT Sports and all Sky Sports channels and more. The 'kicker' for me is everything is on the same EPG so no swapping over to a poxy app.


https://ee.co.uk/tv/choose-your-tv-package


Edit: Just checked and it's dropped to £75

That looks like a great deal. Sadly we’re contracted to BT for broadband until October and Sky tv until July. Hopefully this deal will still be available.

It's a long story (three months long) I was with BT for broadband and TNT Sport, my Sky sports was with Now TV on a monthly rolling contract using their app which was pretty dire for channel hopping. I decided to switch to 'Big Sport' with BT which allows you (in theory) to use Sky Now Sports via the BT/EE EPG which would solve the issue. That is when the 'fun' started.................

BT took my order and all was well until I checked the tracking details that came up 'pending' dispatch but with a red exclamation mark! I rang them and was told they were having technical issues with certain accounts due to their switch from BT to EE. After several more attempts by different sales people their system still wouldn't let it go through

I then got it escalated to a more senior manager who finally managed to fix the problem with their technical department at which point he also agreed that (and I made sure he put a note on my record) at any time I could switch everything to EE including all brand new equipment and be treated as a 'new' customer on a new contract without having to pay what should have been a £370 early redemption fee.

Ended up with a £65/month saving and all new kit including 2 multiroom boxes and everything on the same EPG so no need for crappy apps.



Your case should be a lot simpler as you only need to bin Sly TV in July and switch your broadband to EE

If you ring them now and explain I'm sure they'll be very helpful. I'm pretty sure that if you're within 3 months of your BT broadband contract there's no charge to switch to EE anyway. Ring them

[dickymint]

Scabutz said:

geeks said:

I would happily have the EETV stuff, we have a 4G sim contract with them for our internet, but you have to have their broadband and its not available here, the only ISP we can have is BT and thats only guaranteed at 1mb so not worth having

Yeah I want the TV but not the broadband. I've got 900mbps from Vodafone which is excellent and don't want to give that up.

I've got a poxy 60mbps at the moment (no fibre to house here yet) and everything works fine including 2 x 4k tv's streaming, Hue lighting, Tado heating, wifeys' home office (She's an IT manager and needs 24 hour contact with her companies servers and 16 showrooms) etc.

What the heck do people do with 900mbps

[Flumpo]

dickymint said:

Scabutz said:

geeks said:

I would happily have the EETV stuff, we have a 4G sim contract with them for our internet, but you have to have their broadband and its not available here, the only ISP we can have is BT and thats only guaranteed at 1mb so not worth having

Yeah I want the TV but not the broadband. I've got 900mbps from Vodafone which is excellent and don't want to give that up.

I've got a poxy 60mbps at the moment (no fibre to house here yet) and everything works fine including 2 x 4k tv's streaming, Hue lighting, Tado heating, wifeys' home office (She's an IT manager and needs 24 hour contact with her companies servers and 16 showrooms) etc.

What the heck do people do with 900mbps

I think it’s gaming. Also I think you get a significant kick in upload speed not just download. If you’re uploading big stuff I think you wouldn’t notice a difference.

I apparently get 73mb, does the job for me.

[Scabutz]

Flumpo said:

I think it’s gaming. Also I think you get a significant kick in upload speed not just download. If you’re uploading big stuff I think you wouldn’t notice a difference.

I apparently get 73mb, does the job for me.

Gaming, and porn. Also it was just cheaper for some reason. I went for 200mbps, they said 500 is on offer. Then a month in they said its going up 4 quid a month or for 2 quid you can have 900mb so fk it went for that.

[Shaoxter]

geeks said:

I would happily have the EETV stuff, we have a 4G sim contract with them for our internet, but you have to have their broadband and its not available here, the only ISP we can have is BT and thats only guaranteed at 1mb so not worth having

If you only have 1Mb internet I don't think EETV, Sky Stream or any other streaming based service would work!

[westtra]

Sorry for jumping on a sky thread and asking about EE.

For the speeds with plusnet I get 60mbps but EE and BT only offering 50mbps fiber 50/fiber 1. Any reason for the lower speed with BT/EE?

[Elroy Blue]

I'm about to bin Sky. I've got an old Sky HD box. Assuming I might need to change LNB, will the HD box work as freesat

[Forester1965]

I don't know what deals are available but I've had them ringing me repeatedly over the past 2 or 3 months 2 years after we left. I've asked them each time to stop ringing and here we are again, them ringing again.

Suspect the pressure is on if they're trying to rinse lapsed accounts so much.

[dickymint]

westtra said:

Sorry for jumping on a sky thread and asking about EE.

For the speeds with plusnet I get 60mbps but EE and BT only offering 50mbps fiber 50/fiber 1. Any reason for the lower speed with BT/EE?

Considering they all come through your Openreach (BT) exchange I find that hard to believe or Plusnet are being very optimistic? Anyhow I doubt you'd tell the difference.

[westtra]

dickymint said:

Considering they all come through your Openreach (BT) exchange I find that hard to believe or Plusnet are being very optimistic? Anyhow I doubt you'd tell the difference.

No i get the speed plusnet advertise. Actually a little bit over as fiddled with settings in my modem.

The tv and bb deals are tempting with EE aswell

[Scabutz]

Forester1965 said:

I don't know what deals are available but I've had them ringing me repeatedly over the past 2 or 3 months 2 years after we left. I've asked them each time to stop ringing and here we are again, them ringing again.

Suspect the pressure is on if they're trying to rinse lapsed accounts so much.

Which is odd as plenty of us on here were looking for a deal and told to bugger off, which we have.

I've just signed up to sports with now TV. £26/month for 6 will get me through the cricket summer. Fraction of what I was paying direct to Sky for stuff I wasn't using.

[gmaz]

I had an email this morning with price changes that seem to balance out for the TV but big increase in the broadband price. As we only get 20Mb, it is a bit expensive and would like to swap to fibre, but that would lose Sky Go.

[number2]

Why would you lose Sky Go? It's nothing to do with your broadband service.

[gmaz]

number2 said:

Why would you lose Sky Go? It's nothing to do with your broadband service.

I could be wrong, but something in the last contract negotiation palaver made me think it was linked to the broadband contract rather than the TV contract.

[Scabutz]

gmaz said:

number2 said:

Why would you lose Sky Go? It's nothing to do with your broadband service.

I could be wrong, but something in the last contract negotiation palaver made me think it was linked to the broadband contract rather than the TV contract.

Ive never had Sky Boradboand and always had Sky Go, the app still works but if I try and watch anything now it says I need a Sky subscription. It cant be linked to Broadband because you need Sports Sub to watch sports etc

[Zoon]

bhstewie said:

I use one instead of Sky.

Appreciate some people will want the sports or something only Sky can do but it's an amazing bit of kit.

Saved me a small fortune.

You can install Now TV for Sky Sports or another IPTV Provider if you wish

[WrekinCrew]

Elroy Blue said:

I'm about to bin Sky. I've got an old Sky HD box. Assuming I might need to change LNB, will the HD box work as freesat

Yes but you won't be able to record, pause or rewind.
Also the EPG will still show all the Sky channels even though you can't view them.

[Elroy Blue]

WrekinCrew said:

Yes but you won't be able to record, pause or rewind.
Also the EPG will still show all the Sky channels even though you can't view them.

Thanks. 99% of our viewing is through streaming services now, so we just want to be able to access freeview (BBC1,BBC2 etc)
I have a three year old Samsung TV and have only just found out (much to my surprise) is isn't equipped with a freeview receiver)

[Mikey G]

So after just over 6-7 months since cancelling Sky I now have Virgin Media in my street. Been talking to them this week and i'll be having their 350 package, with 350mb broadband and Mega TV with added Sky sports, only available to me in HD at the moment but they will let me know when UHD is here, not sure why that is. Cost is £65 p/m for an 18 month contract. Surely going to be much better than the 60mb I currently get and a far cry from what Sky could offer me at the time.
I was with VM in a previous property and had no complaints about them.

[BenS94]

We've cancelled Sky Q and gone for fibre broadband and Sky Stream. Best move we've ever made, Stream is fantastic. £49 for an 18 month contract, full package. (Parents have been Sky Customers since October 1999)