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I currently use Sky for my television needs and Talk Talk for my phone and broadband. I am out of contract with both providers so I am looking around.

Virgin have put up a deal for the whole shebang for £45 per month for 6 months and then £90 odd for the rest of the contract. This also includes their verion of multi room for free. No installation costs at all and no additional cost for the multi room option.

I like the sky interface and am used to using it. They are prepared to give me the multi room function free but want £60 to install.

What are people thoughts on the providers as a whole in terms of broadband, telephone and TV?

If you were me, what option would you go for?

haven't we got a Sky bod on the forum?
 
I have Sky
Virgin are in my street and canvass weekly
Their deals to start are excellent, half price for 6 months, BB about 5 times faster than I get with Sky, keep your same tel number, record 2 seperate progs while watching another etc etc

However....

I like the Sky EPG
I don't like the way Virgin bundle their channels so you might have to take out more to get the same as you currently have- if you get my drift.
There are certain channels that will come on SKY first well before Virgin get the licence........from Sky
I dont want a cable running from the street into my house only covered by a few inches of earth or tacked onto the wall

For these reasons I stick with SKY
 
We have Sky, and i had Virgin at my old place. I'd go with Virgin all day long, Sky broadband is terrible, however we are not in a Virgin area. I much prefer Virgin's on demand service too, Sky's is very limited unless you're online, but i want to watch it on a telly. You can get Sky sports on Virgin anyway, it's the only reason i got Sky, and she made me cancel it anyway after the baby was born
 
We're with Virgin.
Our BB down the phone lines was terrible. Down the cables its awesome.
Our Freeview signal was horrific too. Sky would have been best for that.but the slow BB would still have been there.
So Virgin was the No-brainer.
Would be nice to the SSports channels but I don't think I'd honestly watch it enough to justify it.
Very happy with Virgin
 
I hate Virgin. It's pricey, customer service is non-existant, channels bundled up as someone else mentioned so we have shed loads of rubbish channels but can't get one or two extra I'd like without buying a more expensive bundle... and getting loads more rubbish along with what I'd like.

Prices creep up regularly, channels chopped and changed all the time but you never get a fee reduction when they remove a channel you actually watch.
 
Sky user of phone, BB and phone here. I looked at virgin, main reason for not swapping is i cant get fibre yet, but to be honest i dont think i will now anyway. my bro has virgin and i dont like the interface, i am so used to sky its like an old nokia! everything is where i want it to be! Sky are doing fibre BB now too!
 
Cannot stand Virgin.

I went with it when I first moved into where I am now 2 years ago, as it was all there ready to go. The broadband never worked, yet all the calls to the non-existent customer service was a joke, talk to you like a child and then simply said well we don't know what’s wrong but you still have to pay for the service as your contracted.. Quick call to OfCom and contract cancelled with full refund for lack of service. The interface on the TV was worse than the old telewest one from the 90's.

Switched to Sky (which I used have where I lived before) as a result of the above hassles that I had, never had a problem since. Broadband has never gone down, phone bills are so low never notice them go out of my bank. Have all the channels (except movies), a better viewing interface, plus getting the odd film on demand and my bills still come in lower than the standard charge for the poorer package I got with Virgin.

Will never use Virgin again, from now on its Sky all the way. My contract with them has expired so am free to move, so when I mentioned this to their customer service got multi room fitted for free to stop me moving. Happy Days
 
I've never had Sky so can't comment on ther prices/service/support etc.

I've had cable for 15 years, first NTL then Virgin after their takeover. 100Mbit broadband rocks - uncapped and nearly always able to download at 12.5MBytes a second (1GB in less than 90 secs...) and it has a decent upload speed too. Got two set top boxes, the "old" virgin one is much better than the new one. Phone is a fixed amount which includes all calls to landlines. Customer service noticably improved over the NTL years although judging by some of the comments above not everyone is as happy...
 
For what they charge they are both awful at customer service.

When everything works okay I'd say Sky shade it as their guide is updated real time, Virgin (Tivo) EPG is awful. Plus if you want golf in HD - Virgin dont get SS3 or 4 in HD, just SD.
 
Erring towards Sky. Interface is something i am used to and I have never had reason to complain about their service (might do though if they don't come up with a sweet package for me!)

Might look into that Quidco deal?
 
I am looking to change my broadband provider. I get all-in-one phone and internet with some free calls all going on ONE bill to ONE provider.

You'd think it would be easy to decide.....except trying to work out the "bundle" price is a little....um....tricky.

Why can't the companies do it the simple way. I don't care if broadband is £3.99 a month with 6 months half price. I want to know how much it ALL costs.

Is that asking too much? *RANT* I don't want to know about my free M&S voucher. I don't want to be confused with half price this, activation fee that, download limit, fair usage policies, wi-fi router cost, delivery, refund (on some other charge) and all the rest.

How much is it?
 
Sky for sure.

Virgin's broadband is supposed to be awesome but for everything else, Sky is light years ahead. They are constantly upgrading their services and adding new services (Anytime+ iPad integration so you can control your HD box through your iPad, SkyGo, SkyCloud (if you have their broadband services)..

Yes it's expensive, but so is Virgin. I've NEVER had a problem with Sky's customer service (I've been with them over 10 years) and you can always negotiate better deals on your package to make it cheaper.

The only downside is that you support Murdoch if you have Sky. Bad times indeed.
 
The only downside is that you support Murdoch if you have Sky. Bad times indeed.

And there's your reason to go with Virgin. FULL STOP!
 
Aztecs27 said:
Except if Virgin isn't available in your area. ;)
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There's always a down side with you isn't there....!
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freeview HD and freesat HD in my house, signed upto lovefilms with one of these smart tv things (samsung 50")

costs me £6.99 a month

any sport i want too watch i watch on the lappy or desktop via the many many streaming services available

pay £80 a month for tv, i dont think so
 
idTommo said:
freeview HD and freesat HD in my house, signed upto lovefilms with one of these smart tv things (samsung 50")

costs me £6.99 a month

any sport i want too watch i watch on the lappy or desktop via the many many streaming services available

pay £80 a month for tv, i dont think so
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I pay £45 at the mo with sky. That's with everything, including pone and unlimited broadband.

Thank you sky for 12 months free line rental followed by 1/2 price sport and movies! Sky go is also a great little thing
 
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