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(34 Posts)
Tizliz Tue 29-Aug-17 14:34:46

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

annsixty Tue 29-Aug-17 14:23:32

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.

kittylester Tue 29-Aug-17 14:07:47

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!

cornergran Tue 29-Aug-17 14:00:23

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!

kittylester Tue 29-Aug-17 13:50:40

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!

chelseababy Tue 29-Aug-17 13:48:50

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

Pittcity Tue 29-Aug-17 13:47:44

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.

kittylester Tue 29-Aug-17 13:41:10

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!!

annsixty Tue 29-Aug-17 13:30:15

I have had sky television for 17 years now, I can be precise as I was told this morning by their very helpful call handlers.
My phone and broadband has been with BT for 2 years next month. Their charges have gone up and up with no explanation and I am currently paying over £70 a month to them.I have rung sky this morning to ask about getting both services from them.
Long story short my total bill has been halved for TV , phone and unlimited broadband.
I am now worrying that I have not totally understood or left something off!
Has anyone else made savings like these?