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Posted 19 May 2013
Free SkyTV and Broadband for a year for O2 Customers
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Sky are offering free TV and Broadband for a year for O2 Broadband customers in advance of the switchover of their service to Sky. It's the Entertainment Extra+ service with 48 HD channels etc, plus their Broadband unlimited package. You have to pay for Sky line rental instead of O2 line rental, which may work out worse for some, but it does include free caller display which O2 doesn't. It has a worse off-peak period. They claim the package you get for free is worth £468.
The offer runs to the end of June - they are sending out mailers with offer codes, but you may be able to call them up with knowledge of the offer in advance of this.
It doesn't seem to matter how much of your existing contract remains - I renewed recently to take advantage of another offer they were making, and was still offered this one.
FOR O2 BROADBAND CUSTOMERS ONLY.
- TheDelBoy
you either pay monthly of £14.50 as a 12 month contract or even better
you pay upfront £119.40 for the 12 month period so that the breakdown comes out to less than £10 a month.
I just did the switch a few days back.
Between you receive lot many confusing emails from O2 saying they are sorry to see us leave and so on. It seems its their system sending out automated emails.
- arvind169821
Sorry ended abruptly. So ignore the automated emails from O2. You would be paying pro-rata for the duration you use O2 till Sky's broadband activates.
Also, they promised me a speed same as what I have today which is between 16-19.2 MBPS.
You can cancel your contract before the Sky broadband activation date. If later you would have to pay early termination fee.
They though said that I could cancel my contract anytime if my speed drops below 9,2 MBPs
- arvind169821
The offer runs to the end of June - they are sending out mailers with offer codes, but you may be able to call them up with knowledge of the offer in advance of this.
It doesn't seem to matter how much of your existing contract remains - I renewed recently to take advantage of another offer they were making, and was still offered this one.
FOR O2 BROADBAND CUSTOMERS ONLY.
- TheDelBoy
you either pay monthly of £14.50 as a 12 month contract or even better
you pay upfront £119.40 for the 12 month period so that the breakdown comes out to less than £10 a month.
I just did the switch a few days back.
Between you receive lot many confusing emails from O2 saying they are sorry to see us leave and so on. It seems its their system sending out automated emails.
- arvind169821
Sorry ended abruptly. So ignore the automated emails from O2. You would be paying pro-rata for the duration you use O2 till Sky's broadband activates.
Also, they promised me a speed same as what I have today which is between 16-19.2 MBPS.
You can cancel your contract before the Sky broadband activation date. If later you would have to pay early termination fee.
They though said that I could cancel my contract anytime if my speed drops below 9,2 MBPs
- arvind169821
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sorted byVery misleading comment I have to say.
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this offer says a lot
Google house of ill compute scandal, where Murdock supported a hacker forum to crack OnDigitals / ITVDigital pay per view cards and release the hacks to the public on it's forum,
This resulted in OnDigital going into administration in 2002.
I had onDigital and the reason it went bust was lack of decent content, plus signal incompatibility in certain areas, and hence few subscribers.
1. no charge for new dish and cables
2. only available in one room otherwise you have to pay extra per month for multi-room
3. the existing TV will have a spy camera installed to see if you are masturbating to adult channels. aerial in the loft will transmit this video data to servers worldwide.
4. phone number is most likely going to be the same
5. stop masturbating
Will be a catch somewhere
Obviously they will take over your phone line
Was with sky and was one who left
I'd never go back either
Slow speeds and constantly dropping
If I was a o2 customer I'd be looking at my options to get away from sky
Free Sky Broadband Unlimited
• Totally unlimited – no usage caps and we will never slow you down
Free Sky TV – The Family Bundle
• Free Sky+HD box and free set-up
• 85 entertainment channels, over 45 in HD.
if you take the Sky telephone service at £14.50 per month.
That rules it out for me as I have no intention of giving my landline business to Sky.
I am going to stick with the 12 months free Broadband that O2 gave me (plus the cash on my mobile account) and see how things pan out when my broadband connection has actually moved to Sky. If Sky insist on me taking their landline phone service to retain the free Broadband, they will be allowed to stick the whole deal where "the sun don't shine" and I will bite the financial bullet and move to fibre.
You never know...
The keep messing about with the speed (always lowering it after being able to magically raise it for a while after a complaint).
The CS staff offer all sorts of apologies and promise discounts (by way of apology) which sometimes do not happen - and you never get this in writing so you have nobody to go back to about it.
I was with Be (part of the O2 group). They were a brilliant ISP (and landline service).
I was so sorry to see them vanish.
But I simply refuse to pay Sky's exhorbitant TV service charges so I ditched them this year when the 1/2 price for a year was up (and they do nothing but bombard me with 1/2 price for a year offers to try to get me to come back).
Why bother?
Yes I'm paying more - but it's really not that much more - for my phone & broadband as I'm going back to BT for 75mb fibrewhich should be a step-change on my net connection.
BT are now throwing the Premier league football in with that and I tend to buy movies I like anyway when the Blu-ray is cheap enough.
Lastly I just don't want to (a) place all that in the hands of Sky and (b) give a company like Sky my money, not after the revelations of the last year (and however arms-length they try to make themselves they are still mostly a Murdock/News International company), thanks but no thanks.
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Heat added for you that want it
Yup, came through by email yesterday. Just wondering if I can use Quidco as well which would render the deal unmissable. As it stands, I would go from paying £12.50 p mth to O2 AND £14.50 p mth to BT to paying just the £14.50 p mth and getting Sky+/HD as well. Looks like the bundle includes the best package for Sky TV and you get a £25 M&S voucher thrown in.
Of course, I have had to put my morals/ethics into a box and lock them in the shed as this means feeding the Murdoch machine but you can't have everything, I suppose....
We have both gone with BT with quidco of £50 + £25 Sainsbury's voucher. Half price for a year. Will get the free sports too. Landlines are comparable, and no money to Sky haha.
Double loss for them and to the company they're competing with most.
Yep, SKy use MER authorisation, you will need to get yourself a Bipac 7800N/DXL or similar, the Sky hub you will get is locked down and not even a gigabit, still rocking 100Mb, also no USB
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It means live transmission not what that what they are broadcasting is live....
But the biggest reason was that having my own domain name I had email address of eg: noname@domain.co.uk but when email received at recipient it had been changed to name@sky.com my Sky email address. This meant that every email from me went into the recipients Spam box as it was not a recognised email address. This meant that I missed many an offer or contract and suffered financially. O2 do not do this and all is as sent plus great service. Spoke to Sky about it to see if any way to change it and they just passed me from one extension to another and basically was told "tough that is how we set up our system and we will not help you to change it. Sky's method of capture and get money regardless. Was even told this was not a reason to break contract and took advice and lo and behold they were right on that one. Devious ba***rds comes to mind.
I do not know where to go next but rest assured it will not be Sky. I will be looking later in the year when Sky start changing over in my area. I am looking and investigating my alternatives and my priority is service and not just price.
Oh and as far as I am concerned I have a contract with O2 and if Sky take it over then any change from that original contract is a breach and I can leave without penalty. If they transfer on the quiet without notification then I will take legal advice on the correct course of action.
Rant over and apologies for long post but needed to say it for others to be aware of possible problems if have same criteria regarding domain email addresses.
So it could happen from now up till August for us all.
I would never normally go to Sky, but I will just because the deal is good. Ill go with them for 1 yr, pay the line rental up front. Save equivilant of £15 a month then move to BT next year, then with the advantage of keeping a Sky HD+ box and also then being able to recieve BT sports through the sky dish when moved on to the BT package.
Im hoping to speak to an advisor when i get the offer as I ideally want Fibre.
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Thats clever seeing as sky dont take over your service until later in the year!!
I think, somehow, they'd know...
Line Rental £14.50 ( standard )
Free 30mb BB ( as took TV with package )
All calls package for £5
Free Caller ID, 1571 and ex-directory
Free Sky+HD Box with Entertainment + package
Free installation
Free Router
Free post
£19.50 in all for a year
Considering Virgin could not even come close it's a bit of a no brainer. The lady I spoke at Sky said they are trying to get to all customers but with forums like this it maybe better to get in their first rather than waiting. Offers vary from day to day depending on how retention goes and also if you don't move across I think they will move you to the equivalent package so you may not save any £££.
Sure everyone has their own preferences and that's what keeps businesses competitive so happy hunting for your bargains.
Heated add as this suits me and also a good deal generally for others on O2
Odd that I'm watching my sky package now and transmitting this post via their broadband.
£100 M&S e-voucher came yesterday,
Paid 12 months line rental upfront this morning. Taking the voucher into account that’s £19.50 for 12 months line rental, broadband and SKY TV, so a really good deal.
Will I be offered this deal or is it only being offered to those who have broadband and landline phone contracts with O2 to convince them not to move to another service??
The number is a Sky number I believe - 08442 411 208 - but that's for additional info - you are given a button in the email to press to apply online. The code is unique to each O2 customer. The key words from the email are thus:
As you may already know, your broadband service will be moving to Sky later this year. We'd like to invite you to switch sooner, with an exclusive welcome offer - brilliant Sky Broadband Unlimited and award- winning Sky TV, free for a whole year plus Sky Line Rental for just £14.50 a month. It's our best ever offer, reserved just for you – available until 28 June.
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A year of FREE Sky Broadband
Unlimited and Sky TV worth £468*
* plus line rental and inclusive weekend UK# calls at just £14.50 a month – cheaper than BT's standard monthly price.
Free Sky Broadband Unlimited
• Totally unlimited – no usage caps and we will never slow you down
Free Sky TV – The Family Bundle
• Free Sky+HD box and free set-up
• 85 entertainment channels, over 45 in HD.
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Speeds vary by location 12 month minimum terms. £2.18 router delivery charge applies.
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After 12 months standard pricing applies: Sky Broadband Unlimited standard price is currently £7.50 a month (with Sky TV and Sky Talk) or £10 a month (with just Sky Talk). Sky TV Entertainment Extra+ standard price is currently £31.50 a month #UK calls of up to an hour to 01, 02, 03 & 0870 numbers (excludes Channel Islands, indirect access and dial-up internet numbers). Acceptable Use Policy Applies. Offers: Offers end 28 June 2013. Available to named recipient of this email. Offers only available with valid URN code and not available in conjunction with any other Sky offer. Offer applied following activation of all services ordered. Offers conditional on customer retaining all services for duration of offer period. Free Sky+HD box and free standard set up: One box per household. Sky+HD: Some HD channels are available without subscription.
Sky Broadband Unlimited: Up to 14Mb maximum download speed, subject to location. No traffic management policy for Sky Broadband Unlimited. External factors such as internet congestion can affect speed. Sky Talk: Sky Talk Weekends £0 a month.
General: Prices may go up during your subscription. Non-standard set up may cost extra. Boxes must be connected to a fixed telephone line and prices may vary if you live in a flat. Prices for Direct Debit payments only. Continuous debit/credit card mandate costs 50p pm. UK residential customers only. You must get any consents required (eg landlord's). Further terms apply.
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Did you actually read the Mirror article? If you had you would have seen the sentence "But insiders say some of the 500,000 customers affected are refusing to move to Sky because it is part-owned by Murdoch’s News Corporation." That's hardly the same as your assertion they had lost 500,000 customers!!
Whilst you don't need a licence if you only watch "catch-up" services online, ironically you can be caught in a far greater "bang-to-rights" situation if you do stray to watching the odd bit of snooker, tennis or other "pseudo-redbutton" live sport or news on the internet - as the evidence you've done so is logged for the powers-that-be.