I can't help on that score Scatts... but I'm sure someone will

 

I have sky broadband and don't have a bad word to say about them, excellent service and help lines been next to none in my experience Scatts 

Me too  

And up she pops 

 

I have phone line, phone, broadband and sky package except sport for 70 pound a month 

Sky Broadband for me ,every now and then I call and say I may be switching to another server and they throw a me a little incentive to stay.My brother is with BT and he cant wait for his contract to be up and change back to Sky.

I had Sky for a while, had problems with it , changed to BT and wished i had stayed with Sky ! Depends really on where you live for the broadband speed etc. Prices are much the same really. On the whole i prefer Sky x

Ooo thanks Dame.  I think it was just that years ago, BT was the best broadband wasn't it, so I just wanted to check that Sky would be as good!

Thanks Erin and Skylark too - you're all persuading me!

Hi Scatts. I use Virgin, but between BT and Sky I've heard Sky are the better of the two  

This might help 

http://www.uswitch.com/broadba...s=sort%3Dbestsellers

Last time I looked (admittedly quite a while ago) they didn't cover our area....despite the huge billboards advertising it in town.  

 

I've never heard anything bad about it though Scatts....and was tempted before they dashed all my hopes.  

sorry scatts - i live in an area where we can't have sky packages  - we have BT broadband which is good

 

a few in work inquired and would have had it if they could

We've got the sky package; broadband/calls/tv we don't have the movies or sports channels, just the entertainment & knowledge packages. I think it's £32 a month or thereabouts We've always been very happy with the service, one time at the old house we had a drop out issue with the Internet but a quick call to sky and we had it sorted out My only complaint is the constant calls from BT trying to get me to change my calls back to them

 

 

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I'm on Virgin too (£34 per month for 60mb broadband, TV & landline phone is a pretty decent package IMO) and think the quality of service is just great. My broadband is super fast and never had any issues with them. Used to be with BT and would never go back unless they were the last provider left and I needed them - their customer service is the worst I have ever had.

 

Would not touch Sky as I don't want to line Murdoch's pockets.

 

But in general I find that you can find lovers and haters for most providers. I think you just have to pick one and hope they turn out to be OK. If not, try to get out as soon as possible.

 

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Flippin eck! I'm paying about £80 all in (phone BB and telly with sports (not films) and about 20m BB (about to be doubled for free though).

I've got a prob at the minute with caller display and all day free calls, I'm trying to get on to them but it's proving difficult. I've only ever had small issues in the past though 

 

Ah, Sprout, don't let me mislead you. I don't subscribe to anything on the TV side, in fact I hardly use the TV box. The reason I have all three items is that they said the whole package is cheaper than just having the broadband alone. I use the phone a bit but not much. To me it was a no brainer to take all three and have a cheaper service. 

 

Ah right. I see EC. TBH, I find the phone invaluable when I come in from work about 5pm every night - hence the reason I had free calls. (Bone of contention at the minute though until I get it sorted out with Virgin) I also had caller display which they have taken off me due to said probs and I need to get sorted. Virgin had probs in my area though so hopefully..........

 

Let's hope they get your problems sorted out quickly.

Some of my family are on Virgin, the free Virgin to Virgin calls is pretty useful. 

Apart from m'phone ( see other thread ) everything is with Virgin. Excellent service. I think that they do special deals on mobiles too if you subscribe to their package.

 

You are right Garage Joe, they do special deals on mobile phones for Virgin customers. Unfortunately I wanted a sim only deal, but they don't yet do micro sims!

sky can be dodgy.

 

Don't get me wrong it's all good because you get the channels along with the broadband, but i have noticed that sky don;t have the boxing anymore..."box nation" now, so I would go for bt, it's only a year for god sake.............what could go wrong!!!!!!

Not in my experience. On the odd occasion I've needed to deal with them they've been fine 

 

Depends which way you speak to them I guess 

at however many pence a minute on my already paid for mobile I'm pretty abrupt.

 

Dunno about you, but I aint got cash to splash being nice to corrupt wankers.

OK, I can tell you, that ain't going to get you anywhere though 

Mines about £80 a month as well, i don't have sports, films etc, i think i'm on the medium package, i've been trying to lower it as it's too expensive for me at the moment

I had the complete opposite experience when I was with sky.  It disconnected every time the phone rang despite all of the appropriate filters being in place.  Sometimes it would take hours and hours to come back on.  The help line had me on hold one night for well over 2 hours.  

 

BT who I am with now, it's ok but over the last few weeks the service is dipping in and out on a regular basis, but I'm not sure if they've been doing some work on it.

Oh thanks all - very helpful, though I'm still undecided now  

There seem to be pros and cons with all of them...it's a tricky one!