Goodbye to Sky

 

We have been with Sky for over 22 years. But when it came to renew our contract, they were quoting £62 per month for our package that included Sky Sports. I found that BT, with whom we have our broadband and BT Sport, had a package called Big Sport where Sky Sports would be included through NOW. This would require a (free) BT Box Pro The complete package would be £66 per month and that would include BT Sports in HD for which previously I have avoided due to the extra cost. 

This compares with Sky at £66 and BT Broadband and Sport at £43.22, a total of £105.22. So the new system is a saving of £39.22 per month. However, we do not get some of the Sky channels but we hardly ever watch any of those. So it was goodbye to Sky, and this week the new faster router and set top box (even smaller than the latest Sky Q box) arrived from BT and is all now connected. 

What is amazing is that we no longer need a satellite dish. Everything comes to our TV by Wi-Fi. How things have changed over the years. We no longer need an aerial, no more cable running from the router, no more satellite dish. Hello Wi-Fi.