Ian W
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Registered: 8th Nov 03
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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Thinking of binning off sky, £41 a month and only really use the broadband, freeview will do me tv wise.
I do tend to do a bit of downloading so need a high usage ISP (20GB a month would probably do it).
Not sure what my options are phone line wise, does anyone do a deal where you don't need a phone line as its a bit of a piss take at £13 a month on top of the internet bill.
Any recommendations?
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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Why don't you just stick with Sky for your broadband (unlimited) and phone line, and get them to cancel your TV subscription and change it over to freesat (basically, freeview on Sky)?
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Munchie
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O2? They have a router that you can connect a usb hard drive to them
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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20gb a month is quite low usage. As Sam said, just stick with sky.
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Ian W
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Do they let you cancel the TV and just stick with broadband?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Yip, you can take it out without tv to begin with.
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Yip, you can take it out without tv to begin with.
Never let you do that when I signed up 3 years ago as that was exactly what I wanted 
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andy_mk3
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Registered: 18th Dec 11
Location: Peterborough
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I just have Sky BB, £22 a month including line rent and Sky talk. It's now £32 a month I'm on Sky fibre.
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Depends what kind of speeds you desire?
I pay £4.50 a month for a Bt line then £12.10 for 10 Mbps unlimited from Talktalk.
I personally would look in to Virgin Media, they do good deals if you take out their phone package as well, so for about £28 a month you can have 30Mbps connection and their little phone package.
You can treat IPS as any other company that sells goods, ask them if they will do it for x amount per month or you will go somewhere else.
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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Plusnet phone & BB, £25/month including line rental on their 60GB capped service. I couldn't find any cheaper.
Pisses me off that BT have you trapped with line rental when they know people don't use house phones as much as they used to.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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The line rental thing for once isn't actually BT's fault, you need a line for the ADSL to go over.
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noshua
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Yup, end up paying a minimum of ~£13 for the line anyway.
Phone them up, cancellations department, explain situation, get a good retention deal.
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Ian W
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Registered: 8th Nov 03
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
Yup, end up paying a minimum of ~£13 for the line anyway.
Phone them up, cancellations department, explain situation, get a good retention deal.
Meant to update this...yep, phoned up the other day.
Ended up signing a new 12 month deal on the broadband/phone which is £20 a month so about the going rate (and tbf the broadband is pretty good).
Got a 25% reduction on the tv package for a year so overall my bills gone down by £10 a month.
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adiohead
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Registered: 28th Sep 01
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I pay about £6-£7 for line rental. Then broadband with BE There.
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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How can BT charge you £21 a month and other people get it for £13 ? Rather crap.
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John
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A line from BT is about £13.
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Munchie
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Registered: 17th Jul 01
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Was just about to ask you guys when the sky line rental activates- does the broadband activate on same day?!
But as I was typing it, realised our phone line has been cut off and cannot make calls/go on internet ha.
See how long it takes now....
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