The acquisition and transfer of O2 customers to the Sky brand is hardly
news, but it appears that the migration letters have started going out to
customers of O2. These letters will set out the individual offer for each
customer, and as circumstances such as whether a voice line rental customer or
an existing Sky TV customer will vary then some people may get better offers
than others.
In the one example we have seen an old O2 Home Broadband customer who was
paying £9.50 per month to O2 previously has been offered a broadband only
service for £9/month for the next 12 months, after this special offer period
the standard price being £15/month. The £15 is made up of Sky
Unlimited Broadband at £7.50 per month, £2.50 for not having Sky TV
and another £5 for having the voice line rental with another provider.
The closest price wise among the medium to large providers to this price is
PlusNet who will supply unlimited broadband for £12.49/month if you want to keep your
voice line rental with a third party provider.
Our understanding of the move is that if you have your voice line rental via
O2, that this will be moved to the Sky fully unbundled platform by default. If
you want to remain on the WLR product, when you get your letter you should get
in touch with Sky via the contact details on your letter to discuss your
options. We believe connection to a WLR+SMPF service will be possible, but it
is likely the 12 month offer may not be so attractive.
For those chasing the cheapest voice line rental only deals they will
probably want to take a look at people like Primus (line rental for £11.39/month) and the Post
Office (£12/month). Another option if happy to pay 12 months in advance is
to opt for one of the line rental saver deals by paying the next years line
rental in one go, which usually has the advantage of making you immune to line
rental price rises for the period.
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I didn’t want to be migrated to Sky, so I’m moving to the >80/20 with PlusNet unlimited. When I phoned for my MAC they were trying to give me free Sky tv for 12 months etc and said I was crazy to pay extra elsewhere, lol… I still turned them down, had already made my mind up that I wanted to return to an ISP I had many great years with in the past.
Hopefully should be connected on Monday =).
I was happily with O2 for 4 years, I decided not to go with sky as I find their sales technique not to my taste. I migrated to plusnet and I am very satisfied. All sky wanted was to sell me every kind of digital package.
I ensured that my account balance with o2 was cleared and up to-date, which o2 confirmed.
When I left I was sent a letter from o2/sky telling me I was £** in credit, a fortnight later they sent me another letter telling me that I was £** in debit!
I ignored it, they are not a company that I have any time for and they would be the very last ISP I could recommend to others
I was with Be for over 5 years , but glad I kept my phone line separate from them , I was with yourcalls.net, and last Friday I received a letter from them saying my telephone line service will be moving to plusnet, !!. I thought oh nice of them to let me know that ,instead of asking me first if would like to move to them ? Surely they should of given me warning about this ? .Any way when sky move my internet service with them , I’m not sure yet if I want too move too sky yet? but things seem to move so fast now I better make up my mind !
It’s going to be fun now ,my phone service with plusnet and internet with sky? .Still not sure if i want too move to sky yet also?
An old article I know but I’ve just migrated my O2 broadband to Sky for just £5 a month for 12 months. No other charges. Free router. Don’t have Sky TV or any other sevice. Keep my BT landline. Not bad for £5.