Increase in Sky subscription...

[Sarah Ryan]

€45 p.m. is far from low in my opinion and experience.

Based on where I live and what's available for fibre home broadband (which is what I currently have, I am not referring to phone) the savings I could make monthly is €5
What I have works, the speed test might not be great but it supports full WFH and all the other bits and bobs in the house.
I'll take the hit.

Phone is €9.99 a month with gomo, agonising over moving to the €12.99 5g plan lol

 

[charlie007]

his day is been wasted

Interesting customer relations perspective. Any mention of the importance of your time being wasted?

 

[lff12]

Why? Is there anything you watch on Sky that isn't on Freesat?

There's a very small few channels not included, but you can get them on the NOW TV package for about €5.99pcm, and just go to cancel it every time the price is supposed to go up, and then they'll off you the same deal again.

 

[ClubMan]

Based on where I live and what's available for fibre home broadband (which is what I currently have, I am not referring to phone) the savings I could make monthly is €5

Sorry, I thought that you were referring to mobile data.
I presume that this actually means 1Gbps download speed broadband so and not any data allowance?

Sorry my apologies 1gb not 1mb my bad.

 

[ClubMan]

NOW TV package for about €5.99pcm,

€7.99 p.m. on a 6 month minimum period and €11.99 p.m. thereafter?

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[charlie007]

€7.99 p.m. on a 6 month minimum period and €11.99 p.m. thereafter?

Now TV - latest deal codes

Now TV have an offer currently for their sports packages.

www.boards.ie

Loads of great offer codes here, including free periods.
You need to spend some time trawling through, but well worth the effort.

 

[Colin4444]

Do you mean 1GB of data allowance?

It wouldnt be allowance, it would be speed.
1GB of allowance would last 5 minutes..

 

[ClubMan]

It wouldnt be allowance, it would be speed.
1GB of allowance would last 5 minutes..

I thought that they were talking about mobile data allowance and not 1Gbps broadband.

Sorry, I thought that you were referring to mobile data.
I presume that this actually means 1Gbps download speed broadband so and not any data allowance?

 

[Sarah Ryan]

I presume that this actually means 1Gbps download speed broadband so and not any data allowance?

Correct it's just fibre at home broadband.

 

[Cervelo]

Any mention of the importance of your time being wasted?

In fairness to him he did mention our time as well
but it was in the same sentence where he was asking us when completing the Sky feedback survey that we give him a positive rating

Phone is €9.99 a month with gomo, agonising over moving to the €12.99 5g plan lol

I'm on the same plan and will stay there until they GoMo no longer offer it or 4G is shut down

 

[Polly 123]

Currently paying €55 per month for Sky Ulta plus 500mb speed, going up by €5. It says I have the option to cancel my subscription (new contract since Nov 25),can anyone recommend a cheaper alternative, used for gaming so needs to be as good as what we have, any recommendations please?

 

[ClubMan]

can anyone recommend a cheaper alternative

Sign up for any of the other broadband providers available in your area and get the new customer deal for 12 months and you'll almost certainly save money. Then repeat that every 12 months as needed. As with many service providers broadband service providers penalise customer inertia/loyalty.

 

[Blackrock1]

Currently paying €55 per month for Sky Ulta plus 500mb speed, going up by €5. It says I have the option to cancel my subscription (new contract since Nov 25),can anyone recommend a cheaper alternative, used for gaming so needs to be as good as what we have, any recommendations please?

goto switcher.ie you should be able to get 500mb for 35.

 

[Polly 123]

Thank you both, is there any more reliable than the other , our neighbours have Virgin and the technican is constantly there? Thanks

 

[Blackrock1]

Thank you both, is there any more reliable than the other , our neighbours have Virgin and the technican is constantly there? Thanks

assume you have openeir FTTH, in that case they are all using the same infastructure, i personally havent noticed a difference between, sky, eir, pure or digiweb.

 

[Polly 123]

Brilliant, thanks for taking the time to reply.

 

[ClubMan]

our neighbours have Virgin and the technican is constantly there?

Ask them what problems they've had?
Is it VM cable or fibre?

 

[Polly 123]

@ClubMan it fibre, but I will check with them, thank you.

 

[Cervelo]

Got another email from Sky yesterday about a contract change, yes another increase!!!
I don't have details of the first increase as it's gone from my deleted folder but think it was in reference to the sky stream portion of my package

This time its the fibre BB is going up by €3.50pm from the 26th of June but underneath that it also states
"Any offer you availed of when you joined Sky will not be impacted."
So I'm presuming like the last notice this doesn't apply to me but will be keeping an eye on it to make sure

This means Sky's standard price for their "ultrafast Plus" BB will now be €71pm which we nearly all can get for between €35 to €40pm
so I can't see them offering me a 50% or 40% reduction to keep me as a customer so I'll be switching again
Why do these utility providers solely focus on getting new customers and not retaining existing customers??

 

[Tintagel]

I have the most basic of TV packages with Virgin Media. So basic in fact that it is no longer available to the public. It does not include broadband. I got a notification that it is going up by €4.50 per month, which is just over a 10% increase. My broadband is provided by Vodafone on a separate package.