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12 Feb
5:53pm, 12 Feb 2025
90,682 posts
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Diogenes
That’s funny Fozzy, because everything you describe is the opposite in terms of packaged costs and bundles items.
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12 Feb
9:53pm, 12 Feb 2025
23,566 posts
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rf_fozzy
I've saved myself £30/month by moving Dio.
I did it all by speaking to one of the sales team at sky and over a couple of conversations to make sure I'd considered everything.
BT couldn't offer me the TV part, which tbh I wasn't bothered about (I've only got sky essential with the package), but the addition of adding netflix into the package saved me an extra £10/month so it all added up quickly.
I read Martin Lewis's guide on MSE before I did anything and checked it out via price comparison and then phoned them and the deal I got direct was better than the price comparison sites.
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13 Feb
9:30pm, 13 Feb 2025
51,965 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I don't pay Sky or BT for anything! FreeSat TV, a sim only unlimited data mobile router for Internet. No broadband, no phone line. We occasionally rent movies or subscribe to a streaming service. I'm a cheap skate!
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13 Feb
9:39pm, 13 Feb 2025
47,307 posts
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Night-owl
That was me Happy I had one of them mobile Internet things till it became obsolete it was on 3g that phased out.
Still undecided what to do next just using my phone now for Internet
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14 Feb
8:07am, 14 Feb 2025
51,967 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Suits me owlie! I pay my TV licence, consume a lot of BBC, mostly radio actually. If we want to watch a movie and can't find something good on BBC, ITV, C4, 5 we rent from prime or YouTube etc. Mobile Internet does 10Mb/s here good enough for 2 adults in house both on work PCs and TV watching. Costs me £20 p month for unlimited data SIM 4G. Phone line was terrible here - farm location. G
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14 Feb
8:31am, 14 Feb 2025
26,640 posts
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larkim
Must admit the whole TV & broadband bundled together thing confused the hell out of me when it started to be a "thing". Never quite understood the link!
We pay for fibre broadband without a TV package, but do subscribe to Disney+ permanently and then ad hoc to other services as / when they are free / cheap. BBC licence fee remains the best value monthly payment we make though.
At some point I will look into whether a sim-based service would be better than the wired service at home to support the whole family, but we do use pretty substantial amounts of data over the fibre each month and the ability to sometimes transfer many multiple GBs of data on occasion (e.g. last week I sync'd 700Gb of cloud data to local devices) means if its the difference between a £35 a month fixed line service and £30 a month heavy duty SIM service I'd probably stick with the fixed line.
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