BT Line Installation Costs >£100?

[anotherhuman]

Originally Posted by handyman

FYI I was informed by the guy sellin g sky in the local shopping centre that the sky+ half price offer uses reconditioned plus box's. Not sure if that will be the case for you though.

Yes I was aware of this and made sure I got a new box and not a reconditioned box. Actually, I was trying to negotiate for a free box and was told free boxes were reconditioned and they had no reconditioned ones to give me, which sounds to me like half price ones are new ones. But they could have been lying of course...

Oh, by the way, today is 4 July, the date of my Sky+ installation. I rang on Monday to confirm the installation was still going ahead since I had received nothing through the post and you can probably guess what I was told So I had to reorder (lucky the notes about half price box and free installation were still on the system) and now I have to wait until the 18th. Not so great on the Sky+ side, but got my broadband stuff quickly. I'm going to set it up tonight so hopefully it'll go smooth

[anotherhuman]

Thanks for those links Matt D, very useful, and already learnt loads from skyuser.co.uk

Well my broadband was activated yesterday and I get 6Mbit (750kB/s download speeds) on my line (which is 2.1km straight line distance from the exchange and has an attentuation of 50db). So looks like the change was the right thing to do: for 40% of the price I was paying for VM BB, I'm now getting 1.5 times the speed (with none of the annoying throttling)

Sky+ being installed next Wednesday and Sky Talk coming soon afterwards. Thanks to all those that have helped me on this forum

[efcuk1]

hello everyone. First post here. Quality and helpful forum this is!

Anyway, i have just cancelled my VM account due to there p*ss poor customer services, and would now like to get the O2 broadband. You need a BT account for this. I have just seen that the installation charge is 124.99 too. However, we live in an old house, which has been converted into 5 flats. Im pretty sure that someone in our flat has BT as i pick up his BT home hub wireless router! Also, we have an old socket in our living room with 'TELECOM' written on it. Would this be a BT socket? Do you think i would still have to pay the £125? Sorry if i sound dumb......im new to all this. Thanks a lot!

[superbiatch]

Originally Posted by efcuk1

hello everyone. First post here. Quality and helpful forum this is!

Anyway, i have just cancelled my VM account due to there p*ss poor customer services, and would now like to get the O2 broadband. You need a BT account for this. I have just seen that the installation charge is 124.99 too. However, we live in an old house, which has been converted into 5 flats. Im pretty sure that someone in our flat has BT as i pick up his BT home hub wireless router! Also, we have an old socket in our living room with 'TELECOM' written on it. Would this be a BT socket? Do you think i would still have to pay the £125? Sorry if i sound dumb......im new to all this. Thanks a lot!

The best thing to do is ring BT. They will be able to see if there is any wiring and the work involved in getting you live on it. If there isn't too much work to do, you might get away with paying less or nothing (as i did).

Good luck

[toots66]

Until the end of June (I think) BT will install a line for £29.99 if you agree to be on one of their call packages for 18 months. See:
http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/p...o/SNL21-08.pdf

Or if you've got Sky and no BT line, Sky may offer to credit your account for up to £125 if you pay BT and take Sky Broadband.

[PeteTheMusicGuy]

Ring them on 0800 800 150 and they should be able to tell you

[efcuk1]

thanks very much for your help everyone.

toots......thanks a lot for that link, its come in really handy. i owe you a pint!!