Sky Sports 5 / BT Sport / Broadband etc....

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Rammy Blue

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Has anyone worked out which is the best deal as yet?

I don't care who I have broadband and telephone line with, just can't get my head around which way is the cheapest to get everything.
 
I was looking around after my sky deal came to an end, sky was going to be about £70 a month without the movies, and another £12 per month with BT sports and their prices are rising soon.

Virgin is £86.99 for the same (£60.99 for 6 months), but the broadband is 20 times faster, you get BT sport in included and they also gave me an extra box. There is an option to pay a one off fee of £150 for the sky sports channels for 10 months (usually it's an extra £26 per month to add sports), so comes out about £75 a month (£60.99 usual pack of all channels without sky sports and movies + £15 per month for 10 months), summed up Virgin was about £5-£10 cheaper than sky with better broadband and an extra box.

There might be better new customer deals with sky, but this is what I was offered.

The equivalent with BT is £83.99 per month (£75.99 for 3 months) with installation charges of about £75 so I didn't bother looking too much more into that.

So for me Virgin was the best complete package, I rarely watch movies and I'm not sure if I'll bother with sky sports, with the faster broadband I very much doubt I'll need either anyway...
 
I'm looking at jacking off Sky and did a price comparison the other day. I have the Variety TV pack with Movies, Sports & Sky Go Extra and without an HD box. That costs me £62 a month for the TV package alone and it's going up £4 shortly.

I have standard unlimited broadband (which is good value at £7.50) plus the phone line and unlimited calls. These total £27.90 a month so my total package price will be just under £100 a month and, outside the sports, there's no Sky-specific content I watch as it's mostly the Free-to-air channels. Adding BT Sport would cost an extra £12 a month and fibre broadband another £12.50. So with Sky, all that would cost nearly £125 a month.

An equivalent BT package that included the basic TV package, fibre broadband (with a 40gb download limit), BT Sport, Sky Sports 1 & 2 and phone would cost £65.49 a month. That's nearly half the Sky equivalent (although it doesn't include Sky Movies).

I could also get a Freeview or Freesat box which is Wi-Fi enabled. There's a very good Humax Freesat box for £189 which means I could ditch Sky altogether and it would pay for itself in 3 months. I could also get a NowTV box, which allows me to buy a 24 hour Sky Sports pass for £9.99. I can also pay £35 up front and get one loaded with 5 passes to be used as and when I like. Or I could just go to the pub. As my house is up for sale, I don't particularly want to enter a new contract with Sky or BT so am very tempted to go Freesat.
 
moon said:
I think the free broad band offer ties you into a 2 year contract
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18 months it is. And they've been clever by bundling it with Sky Sports 5. You can get SS5 without taking the broadband offer but they don't make it clear.

And SS5 is very sneaky as it will be showing the CL, which they lose after this season. BT Sports only gives you access to SS1 & 2 though so if you take the free broadband offer, you can't get BT Sport next season without either paying extra for it via Sky or paying them the full value of the contract to move.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
moon said:
I think the free broad band offer ties you into a 2 year contract
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18 months it is. And they've been clever by bundling it with Sky Sports 5. You can get SS5 without taking the broadband offer but they don't make it clear.

And SS5 is very sneaky as it will be showing the CL, which they lose after this season. BT Sports only gives you access to SS1 & 2 though so if you take the free broadband offer, you can't get BT Sport next season without either paying extra for it via Sky or paying them the full value of the contract to move.
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You can cancel the sports at any time even as part of that deal (with 30 days notice). But then the broadband becomes payable.

I've got an android tablet/phone and just invested in a Chromecast. Just need that something that will give me access to all the sports I need then I'd happily lose the £24 a month Sky Sports costs me on my bill.
 
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