Broadband News & Mobile Broadband News

Sky (sky.com/broadband) is offering its 20Mbps unlimited broadband package free of charge for 3 months to new customers who do not wish join Sky TV.

The incentive applies when new customers take Sky telephone line rental at £11.25 a month and includes free evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines – courtesy of Sky Talk Freetime.

The Sky Broadband Unlimited package provides up to 20Mbps download speeds together with an unlimited monthly download usage allowance.

The Sky wireless router worth £50 is included, together with around the clock technical support and a 12 month free trial of the McAfee Internet Security Suite.

After the first 3 months, the price reverts to £10 a month, plus the £11.25 Sky phone line rental charge.

Interested readers can find out more and order online at the sky.com/broadband website or read our Sky Broadband review here.

Triple play provider Sky (sky.com/freeunlimited) has commenced a 6 months free broadband offer on its Unlimited up to 20Mbps broadband speed package.

Sky Broadband Unlimited is Sky’s premium broadband package that is perfect for downloading music & uninterrupted online gaming. The package comes with no monthly download usage cap, no fair usage policy and no traffic throttling at peak times.

A free wireless router and free McAfee Internet security software is also included together with free customer and technical support.

Usually costing £10 a month, new Sky TV customers can get Sky Broadband Unlimited free for 6 months when they join Sky TV and take a Sky Talk home phone package that includes telephone line rental. Sky will also supply a free £25 Marks & Spencer voucher when new customers join Sky TV online.

Existing Sky TV customers can also qualify for the 6 months free offer if they are adding broadband for the first time.

Sky supplies broadband services to over 2.5 million customers and netted an additional 101,000 broadband customers in the first quarter of this year.

It’s high definition service, Sky+ HD is now used by 2.5 million Sky TV customers with 428,000 customers signing up to Sky+ HD in the first quarter.

Readers can find out more at the sky.com website.

Sky (sky.com/free) is to offer new and existing Sky TV customers free Sky Broadband speeds up to 20Mbps from the 1st June.

As part of the revamp, Sky will be offering two broadband packages to choose from, Sky Everyday Lite and Sky Unlimited.

Sky Everyday Lite Broadband will be free to new and existing Sky TV customers who take or have the free Sky Talk package. Broadband speeds up to 20Mbps will be offered together with a 2GB monthly download usage allowance.

Sky Unlimited Broadband, at £7.50 a month, will provide a truly unlimited broadband service with speeds up to 20Mbps. Available to new and existing Sky TV customers with Sky Talk, Sky Unlimited will come with no monthly download usage cap, no fair usage policy and no traffic shaping (also known as throttling).

In particular no traffic shaping means that unlike some other broadband suppliers, Sky will not reduce the broadband speeds its Unlimited customers enjoy on its broadband network at busy times of the day.

Commenting on the announcement, Sky’s Director of Broadband & Talk, Delia Bushell said: “Sky is transforming the broadband marketplace again, by providing Britain’s best value up to 20Mb truly unlimited broadband service and the UK’s only free, up to 20Mb service”.

“With these new products, our customers have a very simple choice to make based on how much they use the internet, with peace of mind that they are getting a high quality, reliable service”.

Bushell concluded by saying: “Unlike some other ISPs, Sky promises not to slow down the speed customers enjoy on its network at peak times, and in terms of usage, Sky’s unlimited service really means unlimited”.

Readers can find out information on Sky’s range of TV, phone and broadband packages at the sky.com website or at our Sky Broadband review.

You can now get smaller Sky bills with Sky’s great new offer of free Sky broadband, free Sky Talk line rental and free evening & weekend phone calls (all 3 for FREE).

Both the broadband and the telephone line rental are free for the first 3 months when you order any Sky TV entertainment pack costing just £16.50 a month. The off peak phone calls, known as Sky Talk Freetime, are free all year around.



The free Sky broadband (which will cost £10 p/m after your first 3 months free) is their unlimited Max service which offers download speeds up to 16Mb. A free wireless router and 12 months free McAfee internet security is also included.

The free Sky Talk line rental is a new service from Sky which means you don’t have to pay BT seperately for your telephone line rental. You’ll just receive one bill from Sky for your broadband, phone calls, line rental and TV. After your first 3 months free, a £10 monthly charge will apply – which is still less than the line rental charged by the likes of BT or Virgin Media.

The free evening & weekend phone calls plan covers calls to UK landlines only. It excludes calls to mobiles, premium rate numbers, non-geographic numbers and calls to the Channel Islands.

Sky’s offer of a £15 credit when you order this package online does currently apply so make sure you order online by the offer end date of the 5th February 2009.

Please go to the sky.com/smallerbills official site for more information.

Alternatively, you can find out more on Sky’s great new smaller bills package in our Free Sky Broadband, Talk & Line Rental review.

If you’re an existing Sky TV customer you can get free Sky Broadband if you live within a Sky Broadband network area.

The free package is called Sky Broadband Base and provides speeds up to 2Mb with a 2Gb monthly download usage allowance.

If a 2Mb download speed is not fast enough, you can pay £5 a month for Sky Broadband Mid which has speeds up to 8Mb together with a generous 40Gb download usage allowance.



For £10 per month, there’s also Sky Broadband Max which delivers super fast broadband speeds up to 16Mb and comes with an unlimited monthly download usage allowance.

These great value Sky Broadband packages are available exclusively for Sky TV customers only so if you’re an existing Sky TV customer or considering joining Sky for the first time, order their broadband online now as the set up cost has been reduced to just £30.

You’ll also receive a free wireless router worth £50, plus 12 months free McAfee PC security worth £49.99.

Take a look at our Sky Broadband review for more information or alternatively, enter your postcode into our broadband comparison service to find out whether your home can receive Sky Broadband.