plusNet + Sky

Been with plusNet for 14 months, love the broadband but Sky have slightly better pricing on the line rental and their call packages are better (IMHO).

Does anybody if you can have Sky line rental with plusNet Fibre?

Cheers!

Probably, but your PlusNet broadband will cost an extra £2.50 per month if you do, so don't forget to factor that into your estimates.

no sky do not allow line rental on its own, when i was with them i looked at removing broadband and keeping the phone where it was (it was a second line), and they told me they dont do phone on its own you have to have their broadband even if its just the free ADSL package, also even if sky did allow this plusnet broadband would be incompatible with a sky "phone line" or visa versa

Ash

Sky do have legacy WLR customers and have moved some O2 and Be SMPF customers onto it.

Also on this page you can scroll right down to Sky Talk details drop-down and there is no mention of having to take any other Sky product.

Sky Talk: 12 month minimum term applies to new Sky Talk customers and to existing customers taking up Sky Line Rental. 12 month minimum subscriptions except 18 month minimum subscriptions for Sky Fibre Unlimited Sky Talk & Line Rental if you order. Sky Talk is only available to customers paying by Direct Debit/continuous credit card mandate. Calls only packages not available to BT line rental customers with BT Basics or if outgoing calls are barred. Sky Line Rental required (£15.40 per month). Connection charge from £39 may apply for customers without an active BT compatible line

That to me implies WLR.

Plusnet is compatible with WLR.

I suggest whoever you discussed it with was forgetting it doesn't have to be LLU phone.

What is true is that they will not (normally) take new customers on broadband unless they also take Sky LLU line rental. Not WLR.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 21-Jul-14 00:20:01)

Probably wrong ... Again, but I thought Sky Talk was the term for their voip.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&sou...

Edited by professor973 (Mon 21-Jul-14 00:55:11)

I don't think so, see this page. Bog standard landline prices and

Make the most of your landline and keep in touch with your loved ones in the UK with Sky Talk Anytime UK.
£5 per month, plus Sky Line Rental at £15.40 a month

Re that presentation, I'm not sure it is anything to do with Sky.

Note that it has a price in dollars, the heading Jaht, the link at the bottom doesn't have a destination, nor does any early part of that link until you get to www.jaht.com and much good that does us . All greek to me.

Registrant Name: PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West
Registrant City: Jacksonville
Registrant State/Province: FL
Registrant Postal Code: 32258
Registrant Country: US

I think whatever they do, Sky may have made them drop the name SkyTalk.

What Sky VoIP? Sky does not have a special voip service.

Sky like to link their phone and broadband due to the cost advantages and upsell advantages for them.

In theory you can have Sky TV and Sky Phone but the broadband with another party, i.e. WLR + SMPF but ordering might be fun.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

What Sky VoIP? Sky does not have a special voip service.

And it seems you have no mouse, or just can't be bothered to click the link to the pdf I posted describing it. Not sure it it still exists as I originally said.

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Re your reply to MrSaffron you seem to have ignored my post wondering if your linked document is anything to do with Sky Broadband in the UK. Other than the "word" SKyTalk" I see nothing, and googling Sky Talk brings up all sorts of other stuff.

What I find odd is the the jaht domain itself .

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

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Re your reply to MrSaffron you seem to have ignored my post wondering if your linked document is anything to do with Sky Broadband in the UK. Other than the "word" SKyTalk" I see nothing, and googling Sky Talk brings up all sorts of other stuff.

What I find odd is the the jaht domain itself .

You are more than likely correct Bob. That's why I initially said I may be wrong. It's just that xxxtalk is the terminology usually attributed to a voip service and most ISPs offer such a service. Happy to be wrong, but an explanation of the link earlier would have helped a simpleton like me

Edited by professor973 (Mon 21-Jul-14 12:02:46)

Maybe if this JHAT SkyTalk gets prominent enough the Sky lawyers will jump on it, as they did with SkyDrive?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

... I think whatever they do, Sky may have made them drop the name SkyTalk.

whoops, sorry ... I did read the thread but obviously not properly.

It's a different scenario, but we used to have Sky Broadband (ADSL) while the phone had stayed with BT (so WLR + SMPF).

I tried to get upgraded to Sky Fibre whilst keeping the phone with BT, but as I expected this was not possible - Sky wanted me to switch the phone over to them (i.e. Sky Talk) in order to get Sky Fibre. Was slightly intrigued that the lady at the Sky call centre didn't immediately say it straight up wasn't possible, and instead tried to put through a Sky Fibre order without Sky Talk, but the computer said no.

Correct computer will say no on Sky Fibre, but technically it is possible, just Sky do not want to.

I have given up on the idea, Sky were trying to convince me to downgrade to 40/10 for £20 a month. They pointed I probably wouldn't get anywhere near 80mb/s down speed to which my reply was that is true I get around 68mb/s and when I have the kids streaming netflix, the wife using sky on demand and me playing online or working from home it adds up!

Might as well stay with plusNet