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I'm at the end of my Virgin contract (Fibre broadband, millions of channels including Sky/BT football) - it's been pretty good but price has increased 60% and they didn't offer me enough of a reduction on that when I rang them so I gave them notice to leave.
So assuming they don't ring up to offer me a miraculously better deal, which they still might - I need to sort something out be the end of March but I'm struggling with obvious options:
Sky don't appear to have any good deals - you can very quickly get to £100 plus a month when you add HD, sports, multi-room, Sky Q etc.
I won't go back to BT after poor service and customer service two contracts back
Apart from me watching too much football, most of the family viewing is available on Freeview and Netflix. I think our main TV has a freeview tuner though it seems to be greyed out at the minute with the Virgin box connected.
So, what would Singletrack home media experts do?
Keep Virgin broadband and stick with Freeview - with the TV or some form of Freeview box that can record shows?
Go to someone like Plusnet for broadband (admittedly it won't be fibre to the house)?
Allow the Virgin deal to lapse then go back with cashback and better deal as a "new" customer?
Something else?
So, what would Singletrack home media experts do?
Buy a woodburning stove instead.
You’ll spend so much time chopping wood, cleaning it out and faffing about with it that you won’t have time to be doing anything as uncouth as watching television
Netflix, amazon and now TV for the media stuff.
I ditched sky about a year ago and moved over to Plusnet, I was paying about £80 a month for Sports, TV, Phone and Broadband wit hthem once the deal with Sky we were on ended - I only really watched LFC games, Game of Thrones and John Oliver so decided it wasn't worth paying the extra, the only thing I really do miss the Sky plus pause/catchup.
You can get BT Sports with Plusnet for about £5 a month.
Give Sky a call, simply tell them you want to join but its too expensive. I recently left, had the whole works, paying £130/month. Told them I wasn't interested in staying etc etc (I wasn't) and even got as far having the Q boxes packed and ready to go. Got a last minute offer to go back - so now get everything apart from Cinema and Fibre Broadband for £45 a month, including Multiroom. I got in touch with Plus net for Fibre Broadband, told them their web offer was too much @ £28/month. Told them I can afford £15/month, after a bit of teeth gnashing at other end, that's what I got it for. So have the almost exact same services as before, only over 50% cheaper. They want your business, you just have to remember you hold the aces, not them.
Thanks all. Looks like PlusNet with £5 a month tv is the favourite.
Virgin rang me and offered me exactly the same mediocre deal as previously. I tried Sky which was the same price for less services.
Some low prices by Vodafone for BB and basic phone - £21 p/m for approx 38M Bits and £25 for 70 MBits. No upfront costs at all, not even postage.
Add Netflix £8 p/m.
Amazon Prime <£7 p/m.
Now TV £7 p/m (basic Sky channels) and a free box to watch Netflix, Amazon, NowTV, iPlayer and more.
You're still quids in, and more useful TV than you can shake a stick at.
Couple of Chromecasts (£35 each) and you are better served than by Sky multi room.