I’ve Cancelled Sky - now what?

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After my 18 month contract finished by Sky bill went up and up from £60 per month for the all the channels, broadband and phone to over £100 per month.
Called them to cancel, they came back with £69 per month on a new 18 month contract with a £20 admin fee. I turned that down and proceeded to cancel (31 days notice).

Have I done the right thing? I feel a bit lost now as to what to do. Will they come back with a better offer? I have been looking and I can’t have virgin as I live very rurally and options are limited to talk talk or BT it seems.

Any advice welcome 🤗

Get a Now TV box - cheap as chips.

Phone I assume is just landline? No one uses that anymore

Just get internet, ours it a pretty high one due to working from home and we only pay £30 a month. No landline costs.

Netflix £4.99 per month

That’s it

@Caspianberg

Phone I assume is just landline? No one uses that anymore

Just get internet, ours it a pretty high one due to working from home and we only pay £30 a month. No landline costs.

Netflix £4.99 per month

That’s it

Don't most internet providers require a landline ?

We live rurally too. It's worth asking around locally to see what people have and how reliable it is. Eg, our cabling outside is dire. We're waiting for UPP to install fibre as that's supposed to be imminent. Before that we were looking at BT unbreakable broadband (used 4g as a backup if you lose your connection)

We currently pay about £40 per month for broadband and line rental from Plusnet. On top of that we roam around between Netflix, Prime, Now TV and Disney Plus. All cost roughly £8 per month and there's no contract so you can join one for a month if a series catches your eye, watch that then leave and join something else.

I cancelled our sky tv down to the very basic package with just Atlantic & 1x multiroom (the Atlantic is in contract until October) in November so our tv bill is now £48pm. I'll fully cancel it when the Atlantic contract is up. I'm not renewing our phone or bb with them either as that ends next month. Will be switching back to bt (we'll likely go back in 18 months for those 2 services though, we tend to just switch between the 2 as they're the only reliable providers in my area).

Yes they will now send you better offers.

We have Netflix, Prime/Firestick & Disney+, along with the free ones like iPlayer etc. We never actually watched anything Sky specific, hence starting to cancel it.

I’ve never understood why people pay a fortune for Sky when you get the same programmes to watch whenever you want and no adverts on Now.

I’ve got a deal paying £1.99 a month for the Now entertainment package for six months. When the deal ends I’ll cancel it. I’ll probably do without it for a few weeks or whatever. And they’ll probably offer another deal and then I’ll go back. If you want the Cinema package you’d pay separately for it. Same with Sport and Kids etc. Again though, they’ll probably give you a deal. You’ll never pay the full advertised cost, £11.99 or something I think.

You can’t record your programmes like on Sky. But you don’t need to, you just watch what you want when you want.

They'll be back with an amazing offer. We cancelled after ours crept up to £90 a month and a few weeks after we cancelled they called us up and offered our old package at £20 a month. We did this little dance with them for 3 years, us cancelling, them chasing us and offering a really amazing rate. They stopped eventually but we had a good run. Life without sky isn't too bad. I'm used to it now. We have Netflix and Amazon prime and that suits us fine.

We have Vodafone broadband. No landline or tv. Use fire stick with Netflix, now, Amazon etc

We also went to cancel now and got offered a deal

Thank you all. I will see what they do in the coming weeks. Plusnet look good for the broadband and phone line but they don’t do tv anymore so now tv might be worth a look. Funny to think there were only 3 channels when I was a child and we coped fine then !!!

Now tv and broadband is also unavailable. I’m wondering if Sky know my limitations due to my location already!

What do you mean “unavailable”, OP?

I’ve just got rid of sky. I use freeview, Netflix and Amazon prime. I don’t miss Sky one bit and I had it for over 10 years.

I have talk talk for the landline (though I'm thinking of getting rid of it, but whenever I think about it, it proves to be a go send. My mum lives overseas though and sometimes stuffs up her tech, so landline to landline can be valuable and I get free (well prepaid/contract/whatever) , unlimited calls overseas.

Virgin driving me mad as the picture keeps pixelating

Also just cancelled. Your sky box will work as a free view box when the subscription runs out. I'm going to use this along with all the on-demand apps for free. We are continuing with the broadband with sky as I'm happy with that.

Free Sat?

@teaandtoastwithmarmite

We have Vodafone broadband. No landline or tv. Use fire stick with Netflix, now, Amazon etc

Same here, but we're with Virgin.

Being rural makes no difference regards Virgin Cable, we live in a large city and cable isn't available.
Stick your details here availability.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker to see what speeds you should get and providers.
No point getting Now TV or streaming device if your speeds are low.

We have virgin and pay £30 a month for brisdbanx and a tv package (not sports or movies) . Sky is a rip off

We did this and now pay £50 to Virgin for fibre broadband and landline (massively expensive costs if you forget and make a call in peak hours). Also have Netflix, NOW on an offer, BT Sport and Funimation.

Of you have BT broadband now is £22/month all the sky as long as you don't watch live. But sports and kids are extra. For kids use the BBC iPlayer for CBeebies and CBBC, the my5 player for milkshake and Freeview for Ketchup. Also for kids - if you can persuade grandparents etc to buy a Disney plus instead of Xmas or birthday gifts £80 a year? I don't have a smart TV but got a Google Chromecast for £18. If you're a Amazon Prime user you can watch that channel with lots of content for the price of the membership (£7.99 a month cheaper if a year in advance). In fact signing up to BT they gave me six month Amazon video as a signing bonus. And Netflix is also available for a cheap add-on on the bt contract. It may seem a lot but I'm getting BT broadband, 3 40gb Sims with free calls and texts, now TV and a landline all in for just under £120/month that's a two year contract though. But we are semi rural and BT are the only good local choice for download speed etc. I'm disciplined about live versus players and we buy our Android handsets outright for under £300 each every few years.

I have Now as an app on the fire stick on offer. Those who have it, how do you find out what’s on?! I can’t figure out to see a list of what’s available, only a way to search specifically for programs you want to watch. What am I missing?

Never felt the need for Sky (or Amazon Prime, Netflix etc), just have my BT Super fast Broadband (including landline) & BT TV and that is fine.
Yes I am on a deal but all in I am getting 4-months service for under what you were (are?) paying a month.
Depends on how much you value those additional channels?

I found sky a waste of money. Just have prime and Netflix now. I pay for a book subscription as I read loads. I couldn’t afford sky anyway, for all it is it’s quite overpriced.

Get a roku box. It has iplayer and all the other normal tv catch up channels. Then you can pay for Netflix, Amazon, Now or whatever and get it through the roku.