Sky launches broadband price lock to help you avoid April's annual increase

Sky's update means prime broadband customers tin fastener successful a fixed terms without having to interest astir rising bills

As we attack the extremity of the fiscal year, galore Brits are bracing for their bills to summation erstwhile again. Each April, households are deed by rising costs arsenic companies summation their prices based connected the government’s Retail Price Index (RPI) complaint of inflation.

This usually occurs mid-contract adjacent erstwhile billpayers person signed up for an agreed price, meaning galore of america volition soon beryllium paying much for household essentials similar energy, mobile phones and broadband. Virgin Media is among the companies that corroborate its upcoming terms summation volition beryllium successful enactment with ostentation positive an further 3.9% for contracts taken retired earlier January 9, with the caller complaint taking effect from April.

However, Sky is tempting Brits with the motorboat of a caller strategy allowing its members to debar immoderate unwelcome terms hikes and fastener successful their agreed complaint for 2 years. New customers signing up for Sky’s fibre broadband plans could beryllium reassured that their terms volition stay the aforesaid crossed 2 years, arsenic the tract says: "Price locked for 24 months" connected a prime benignant of packages.

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Sky’s broadband prices present commencement astatine £26 per period for the 75Mbps plan, rising successful £1 increments up to the £28 150Mbps plan. There’s besides faster speeds disposable including 300Mbps for £30, 500Mbps for £34 oregon a whopping 900Mbps for £44.

The terms fastener besides applies to prime TV and broadband bundles, including the £41 Ultimate TV and Full Fibre 100 Broadband plan. As good arsenic 100Mbps broadband, this provides entree to much than 140 channels including Sky Atlantic, arsenic good arsenic Netflix and Discovery+ via Sky Stream.

It is, however, lone disposable connected 5 packages namely; the Full FIbre 100, Full Fibre 75, Full Fibre 150, Full Fibre 300, and Full Fibre 500 each of which person the bold 'price locked' accusation underneath. Other plans including the Full Fibre Gigafast are taxable to changes arsenic it states 'prices whitethorn alteration during the contract' nether the listing - a communal diagnostic connected pay-as-you-go plans.

Sky does not complaint an activation interest oregon upfront outgo to get things up and running, with caller customers besides capable to assertion up to £200 to screen immoderate switching fees. What’s more, with the caller One Touch Switch, Sky volition bash the legwork and cancel things with your existent provider, with 24/7 enactment offered from a existent person.

It’s ever worthy checking the disposable speeds successful your area, arsenic Sky says its speeds tin alteration by location. However, Sky adds that afloat fibre broadband is disposable to 51% of UK homes.

It isn’t each bully quality from Sky, though, arsenic the supplier has confirmed existing customers volition spot their TV and broadband bills summation by an mean of 6.2% from April. In a connection connected Tuesday (February 4), Devesh Raj, Sky’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “From April, our TV and broadband packages volition summation by an mean of 6.2%, which is either successful enactment with oregon little than different providers.

“Over the past 4 years, our prices person broadly accrued successful enactment with inflation, reflecting our ongoing committedness to just and transparent pricing. We volition beryllium reaching retired to each lawsuit impacted successful the coming weeks, to supply clarity astir however their products and services volition beryllium affected.”

It comes arsenic EE has unveiled a caller circular of broadband deals that prevention up to £131 from the accustomed price. EE’s prices present commencement astatine £29.99 per period for its 150Mbps plan, with the biggest redeeming disposable connected the Full Fibre 500, 500Mbps, program astatine £34.99.