if you are semi happy with your current provider try and get the best deal you can with the other and call your current one up to see if they can match it. Its a ball ache to change and they are all rubbish if something goes wrong. Remember if you go from Virgin you will need to have a landline so if you don't have one already make that a consideration.Thinking of going from Virgin to BT for fibre broadband and phone. Sticking with Sky for TV.
Not sure of comparative speeds.
Thoughts?
On the off chance I'm in TW13 postcode.
if you are semi happy with your current provider try and get the best deal you can with the other and call your current one up to see if they can match it. Its a ball ache to change and they are all rubbish if something goes wrong. Remember if you go from Virgin you will need to have a landline so if you don't have one already make that a consideration.
I have been with Sky and BT - both ok, no real problems and getting roughly the speeds they advertise. BT now - £32 for 52mb tied in for 2 years so they can't up the prices.
Never had Virgin so cant comment on that, went to get it when I moved from Sky and it turned out the dude who did my drive just cut the wire and I didn't fancy digging it up just to get virgin.My only hesitation is that Virgin is all fibre where as BT is the old copper network as far as I'm aware, even for 'Infinity' from the exchange which quite far away from my house.
Did you BT deal include any call time?
Never had Virgin so cant comment on that, went to get it when I moved from Sky and it turned out the dude who did my drive just cut the wire and I didn't fancy digging it up just to get virgin.
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As you are happy my starting point would be to call Virgin to see if there is anything they can do - look up any deals they are offering new customers as a reference and try to talk to the correct people rather than the wally on the phone.BT Sport is being offered for free which is a saving of £15 on the my sky TV platform
Done that they where beaten by BT especially when take the cost of BT Sport off.As you are happy my starting point would be to call Virgin to see if there is anything they can do - look up any deals they are offering new customers as a reference and try to talk to the correct people rather than the wally on the phone.
Saying that I did the same last time with Sky and they didn't budge hence moving to BT.
Virgin is much faster than BT in almost all areas due to the bricky old copper bits you mention.
BT's fibre offering is much more reliable than their ADSL so there's no issue there.
I mainly stick with Virgin because I refuse to be forced to pay line rental for a telephone line I neither want nor use.