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Angelofayresome

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Just got a letter saying a price increase of £21.50 a month from 1st of May, I'm already paying over £140 a month for it now. Anyone else had this, I'm not paying that they can do one. Any other options out there?
 
Got the same letter. I was paying £99 per month, rang them and sorted a new deal £85 per month, engineer coming tomorrow to fit updated box, this includes Sky Sports, BT Sport, Children channels, Movies & Netflix. Because my mobile is with O2, sorted that contract as well, will be cheaper than the 13.4% increase advised by O2 earlier in the month
 
If you're in Stockton check if you can get youfibre for your broadband

They can put prices up but you're free to leave your contract or to try and negotiate - other companies have this in their contract but virgin don't but apparently will going forward so this will be the last time people will be able to negotiate their way out of it
 
It's a pain but you just have to play them off against each other, say sky can offer me it for xyz.

I've gone to youfibre for my broadband and will just flit between sky/virgin for TV as we do still want a traditional TV service for now.
 
Angelofayresome said:
Just got a letter saying a price increase of £21.50 a month from 1st of May, I'm already paying over £140 a month for it now. Anyone else had this, I'm not paying that they can do one. Any other options out there?
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Wow thats an astonnishing amount. Iptv is one questionable route with another broadband only service
 
I pay 40 pounds for a basic sky package plus sky sports. Have to take my internet through BT as they fitted the infrastructure in our new build estate can't wait for that contract to be up as they are just awful to deal with.
 
MickaelDebevePhenomenal said:
And they wonder why people have illegal streaming services
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Exactly this, the pricing is insane.

I pay £40 a month for my gigabit fibre. With the ever increasing amount of walled garden streaming services, a bunch of us chucked into a plex shared setup and paid £120 for a 3 year streaming service that we route through plex. All of us can watch any footy game we like across the Premier League and EFL.

If they gave us a one stop shop to consume any game, I would be on that like a tramp on chips. But instead, we get this mess, each with its own pricing to cover its massively inflated overheads.

1. Sky Sports
2. BT Sports
3. Amazon Prime
4. iFollow

I must have watched every game so far this season, mainly done via ESPN and Fox Sports, and sometimes Sky Bet.

As a customer, its so bloody frustrating not being to get an all you can eat model.
 
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Angelofayresome said:
Just got a letter saying a price increase of £21.50 a month from 1st of May, I'm already paying over £140 a month for it now. Anyone else had this, I'm not paying that they can do one. Any other options out there?
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Get rid of it and you will be >£140 a month better off.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
Exactly this, the pricing is insane.

I pay £40 a month for my gigabit fibre. With the every increasing amount of walled garden streaming services, a bunch of us chucked into a plex shared setup and paid £120 for a 3 year streaming service that we route through plex. All of us can watch any footy game we like across the Premier League and EFL.

If they gave us a one stop shop to consume any game, I would be on that like a tramp on chips. But instead, we get this mess, each with its own pricing to cover its massively inflated overheads.

1. Sky Sports
2. BT Sports
3. Amazon Prime
4. iFollow

I must have watched every game so far this season, mainly done via ESPN and Fox Sports, and sometimes SKy Bet.

As a customer, its so bloody frustrating not being to get an all you can eat model.
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Is that legal though? I don't mean moral or anything else. Could I do that and not be breaking the law?
 
Just called them and they offered me £60 / month for an 18 month contract with improved Broadband down from £110, happy days!
 
Just cancelled my contract after they put it up from£41 to £59…
gone with youfibre on £29 with no tv but 1 gig speed and £1 a month for first 7 months…
cancelations guy was canny and tried to get me a good deal to stay but couldn’t get anywhere near and I’ve just got an email of them to stay on contract for £29 a month, was tempted to save hassle but youfibre have already pulled in cable and cut waiting time down from 3 weeks to one.. then virgin went down twice in last couple of days so minds made up..

freeview and fire stick are way ahead..
 
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