https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700143#M407970 <P><a href="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3670693">@BigAl29</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;I have merged your post to this existing thread, when adding information for your existing thread please use the reply button, rather than create a new/seperate thread.</P> Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:43:56 GMT GD1 2024-07-23T11:43:56Z https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700112#M407963 <P>My broadband contract is up for renewal and they have given me several options.</P><P><BR />could somebody please explain why the faster speed is cheaper. Talking to the agent he could not tell me.</P> Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:08:55 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700112#M407963 BigAl29 2024-07-23T11:08:55Z https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700116#M407969 <P>Sorry meant to add to posr<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="IMG_0407.jpeg" style="width: 844px;"><img src="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/101952i9FC8084730CF13E3/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="IMG_0407.jpeg" alt="IMG_0407.jpeg" /></span></P> Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:11:18 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700116#M407969 BigAl29 2024-07-23T11:11:18Z https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700143#M407970 <P><a href="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3670693">@BigAl29</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;I have merged your post to this existing thread, when adding information for your existing thread please use the reply button, rather than create a new/seperate thread.</P> Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:43:56 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700143#M407970 GD1 2024-07-23T11:43:56Z https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700165#M407971 <P><a href="https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3670693">@BigAl29</a>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I suspect that's due to wholesale pricing: all ISPs on the Openreach network are buying their bandwidth from someone else and what they can offer is based on what's available to them.&nbsp; 150Mbs is the first of the mainstream Ultrafast bands (the others being 500Mbs and 'Gigabit') while 100Mbs is rather an oddity.</P> Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:10:37 GMT https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/Broadband-cost/m-p/4700165#M407971 TimmyBGood 2024-07-23T12:10:37Z