BT and sky

Ann are you psychic? We have this conversation on a boringly regular basis.

It depends what packages you have doesn't it? I get so bewildered!

We have Sky + with multiroom and sports but dont have any of the movie packages.

We have our WiFi (it's that high speed fibre thingy!) and our phone with BT. We have a package where we get free calls to landlines during the day but most calls now are to mobiles! It all costs us about £150 a month.

Our contracts end in October and we are totally confused about what to do!

So thank you for posting! See, that was interesting - well to me anyway!!

We are with Virgin and have superfast fibre broadband, tv in 2 rooms, evening and weekend landlines and a mobile phone contract with unlimited calls and texts for £75 a month. I thought that was expensive until I read the above comments.
I have just received a letter with a price rise. I shall be ringing and threatening to leave which usually results in a price reduction.

We pay about £88 a month for Virgin - TV (including BT sport) broadband and phone. I was thinking it was rather expensive!

We can't get Virgin! There is a rumour that it's coming but I am 68 and it might be too late for me!

We pay just over £20 a month to BT for decent broadband speed, anytime calls to landline numbers (calls to mobiles are made on my mobile which is £10 a month) and caller display. Freeview gives enough tv for us. Just cheapskates!

We have an issue with signal in our village, in general, and, particularly, our house so can't use mobiles. Two of our children don't even use a land line. WhatsApp is ok for messaging but proper chatting has to be on the landline!

My total charges to BT and sky came to £122 25
My new charges are £ 65.25 all we are not getting is BT sport which at the moment I am not going to pay for.
I was given the usual " we are giving you extra discounts as you are such a long standing customer"
I have agreed to stay for 18 months and that charge remains for the whole contract.If I find a catch I will tell you.

Annsixty do you have to pay your line rental on top of that? Just paid mine for a year and it was over £200.

That includes line rental of about£ 19 a month, I can't remember exactly but have it written down . It was certainly no more than that.

annsixty we have just done exactly the same and also halved our bill. We don't have the movie channels and limited sport but that suits us. The BT bill was just getting too much especially as we never used BT to make a phone call. We are apparently too close to the coast to be able to use Freeview which is a shame because they have a lot of the local radio stations which Sky doesn't have.

It seems we have done the right thing then Tippy
We don't have movies but do have the sports channels for which I was quoted £20 a month.

annsixty, I did exactly the same last month. BT was incredibly overpriced. For my landline and broadband I was paying £65 a month with BT.
I now have the whole lot from Sky and paying £75 a month! We have multi room, no movies or sport.

I phoned BT to cancel my package and they asked why I was leaving I told them they were far too expensive. straight away she said she could lower my bill to £35. I asked why they hadn't offered this before and she said they don't unless asked!

I still went with the Sky package as even with the reduction it was going to be very similar and at least it is only one bill.

We are limited here as to who we can use, Virgin aren't in this area.

I almost feel sorry for virgin when they put our bills up.
OH ties them up in knots and then screws them into the ground. It's almost embarrassing.

My BT phone and broadband is £150 per quarterly bill, much more than when I changed to them 2 years ago and am wondering who to go with. But, I've just cancelled Sky. It's £68 a month and it was my late DH and later my DS who wanted it. The Sky channels are only watched by family when they visit at weekends so it's far too much money. I hadn't thought of asking about combining phone and broadband with it as I feel I just don't need it.

We have Sky with multi room and sports, no movies, and pay £45 month. My broadband and phone with Plusnet, line rental paid year in advance so cheaper than monthly (179 if I remember correctly) and £12.99 month for fibre unlimited bb. Calls on top but we often don't make any and rarely go above a fiver a month. Sky we negotiate every renewal time, usually cancel and then get better offer. My plusnet was negotiated down on last year too. I left BT as they were getting so expensive.

Well I never! We pay something like £127 pm (!!). DH does this and when I , regularly, complain about the waste of money he gives me some tale about availability in our area. The REAL reason, of course, is sport-morning, noon and night, somewhere in the world someone is doing something. What a waste of money IMHO

We have Virgin and get broadband of >=200 mbs, this means that we've got smart TV in all rooms plus tablets and lap tops, which can be on at the same time with no deterioration of service including my beloved Alexa, plus an xl package with the TV ( no films or sport) although we do have BT sport for free. Our land line gives the usual free calls to other Virgin numbers but have to have a separate contract for mobiles and we get all this for £76 a month.

Made me go and work mine out. Total of £81 gives me all my phone calls, broadband - about 35 mbs, and a fairly basic Sky+ package. Plus of course the TV licence. We all do seem to pay a lot for our entertainment, is it worth it?

We have BT Vision & fibre optic broadband unlimited use along with BT Sports (free) all the free channels and 2 packages from BT for £46.00 per month includes line rental,I renegotiate every October and always keep the amount similar to this or threaten to change suppliers there is a department within BT to do this but not sure what the dept is called,I can't understand paying money for channels that you don't watch you might as well throw it away.

Quite happy with Sky+. Love being able to pause, record etc and OH likes all the outdoor type programmes on Nat Geo - Live Below Zero, Mountain men etc - which don't seem to be available elsewhere. Refuse to pay extra for HD, can't see the point.

Tizliz we get them on BT Vision along with many other channels.

I will have a look. Do you get pause on BT vision? - absolutely essential in this house as I have a hubby who asks what is happening as he wasn't concentrating so then I miss what is happening now as I have to tell him what happened a minute ago IYSWIM

I thought Sky packages were all delivered through the satellite. DD has Sky as they were much cheaper than anything else - just the basic package with phone as well as wifi etc- and she has some thing which looks like a memory stick from Amazon which allows her to watch films and box sets etc. She needs to have a good broadband connection as often needs to work from home.

Had a look on the BT page and it seems like you need an ethernet cable from hub to TV, that means three doors to go round. Sky is wireless.