Broadband Sky prices = service

[Wayneold]

Sky have now upped my bill to £49.50 a month for 36mb (so called speed) broadband

im averaging 21.2MB confirmed from their app.

When i joined sky 3 years ago it was £25 for the same package, how do they justify this raise in 3 years?

now they will lose the BT line how will they supply any house with just BT?

i think i will leave them next month with these crazy prices 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Wayneold wrote:

When i joined sky 3 years ago it was £25 for the same package, how do they justify this raise in 3 years?

That would have been a significantly discounted price for the initial 18 month contract term: this is standard practice within the ISP industry.  Since then your service will have both reverted to list price (if you didn't renew a minimum term) and gone through three annual increases based on the rate of inflation in December of each year.

now they will lose the BT line how will they supply any house with just BT?

PSTN is scheduled to cease at the end of 2026.  Copper 'phone' lines will continue to deliver digital service (SOGEA broadband and VOIP telephony) to addresses not yet reached by the national FTTP rollout.  'BT' is a competing ISP.

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[TimmyBGood]

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@Wayneold wrote:

Sky have now upped my bill to £49.50 a month for 36mb (so called speed) broadband

im averaging 21.2MB confirmed from their app.

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Note that 36Mbs is the nominal average speed of an 'up to' 40Mbs service.  Actual speed delivered to a particular address depends on copper line distance from the local fibre cabinet, and WiFi speed within the property will be lower than this.