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Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

BluesCFC — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:09:00 GMT

Considering moving from Virgin to Sky for fibre broadband and TV.

Currently our house only has Virgin connections for TV / Broadband. Has anyone been in the same situation and had confirmation from Sky that this can still be used by them? I saw something by googling that Sky has access to Virgin lines but just want to check with the community on this before committing to a switch.

Thanks

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

mae-3 — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:30:36 GMT

@BluesCFC

Virgin Media's network isn't available to Sky.

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:33:08 GMT

@BluesCFC

Openreach does not have access to virgin infrastructure in fact virgin tend to remove all signs of openreach equipment. So best keeping vm up and running and cancel when sky confirms a date. Tell sky you might need a new phone line to be on the safe side

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

cookiemonsteruk — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:35:18 GMT

@BluesCFC

Enter you full postal address below and post the table to see whats available

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

CyberFriday — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:38:40 GMT

@BluesCFC If you mean can you have virgin as your broadband provider and use sky for your tv/media packages then it appears that folks are doing that over here.

Answered: Advice on Virgin Broadband and Sky Q compatibility - Sky Community

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

BluesCFC — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:47:48 GMT

Hi @cookiemonsteruk

Thanks for the link, here is the table i received

Thanks everyone else for the info, I thought that might be the case I was told by Virgin all bills are going up by £4 a month in April which irritated me a little bit so just wanted to check if it was possible.

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

mae-3 — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:51:01 GMT

@BluesCFC

Yes, Sky broadband would be available to you with a new line and broadband package. The speed that you would likely be 80Mbps downstream and 20Mbps upstream on Sky superfast FTTC (VDSL2) via a new copper telephone line.

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

BluesCFC — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:56:02 GMT

@mae-3 i wasn't sure where I was looking to confirm if it was exclusive to Virgin or not but thank you for your help! 🙂

Re: Thinking of moving to Sky from Virgin - Broadband question.

mae-3 — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 22:02:46 GMT

@BluesCFC

The infrastructure is different in that it would come from BT Openreach and broadband provided by new copper twisted-pair into your house, and luckily you are very close to the BT Openreach cabinet in it offering the maximum speed for the FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) 80/20Mbps and new twisted copper telephone cable to your premises.

This replaces the Virgin Media broadband system which comes down co-ax cable but usually, the system is left in place but disconnected from the VM infrastructure whilst you are using the BT Openreach system.