Getting rid of sky, switching to freesat

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Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Sky are very good at hiking their prices every few months. My "free" broadband is now £10 a month and my TV package keeps going up too. We're also not due to get Freeview for another two years (got decoders in both the DVD recorder and the TV) so have seriously considered Freesat + instead. If I could only find a listing of all the channels you get I might be able to make a choice!

For broadband check out O2. If you're already a customer they are doing up to 8MB unlimited from £7.50 a month if your exchange has capacity. Of courde the one in Wycombe doesn't so I'm still with Sky...

http://www.freesat.co.uk/
http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html

You have to mix the two up as a load are on the freesat website and a load on the lyngsat site, if you look you will see which ones are FTA etc..

[L3nny]

They haven't increased the price I pay in the whole time I have been there. The only real saving I will be making by getting rid of them is by not having to pay for a BT line.

A list of freesat channels can be founs here

http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.Main

I used to pay Sky for Tv (£17) Phone + BB.

I stopped Sky as the channels viewing were on Freeview (some on FreeSat) hence no point paying for sthing that can be had for free.

In your case I would actually go with Virgin. My best mate has been with them for years and for £30 a month he gets full TV package with the equivalent of Sky+, Phone and BB.

Otherwise you can keep your sky dish and box and just ring them and say you want it turning to a Freesat. Won't cost you anything and since you can't get Freeview this will still give you access to most channels.