Full Works - Cheap then Hideously Expensive in 3 months time?

[Dexta]

So am considering moving from SKY

I like the idea of Full Works

£54.99 until March then £59.99 , ok fair enough I guess

But the underneath in small print it says in 3 months it jumps to £112.99

All the other packages are entirely sane, Full Works doubles in price after 3 months

Is that accurate?

Why the absurd price hike?

All the other packages have no increases until March 2026 and even then it's only about £5 more.

[Weerab2024]

Are you looking at a broadband and TV deal? If so what broadband speed are you interested in?

It's already on an offer at £55 for 3 months, then there's the yearly inflation for both broadband and TV while your still in your 3 month deal and then it goes to the price with your inflation included at the standard price. 

Depending on what your wanting it's in line with what your paying for.

Your getting absolutely everything that EE offers under their TV packages, hence the name full works. 

[Dexta]

Yeah no problem with the usual inflation etc

it's the doubling in price after 3 months that's odd compared to the other deal.s

[Chris_B]

@Dexta  but the TV subscription you’re looking at is for everything that’s available,  that’s sport now entertainment now movies Netflix,  Discovery + literally everything you can have the other TV packages don’t have all of this.  

[Matt_124 · Accepted solution]

The usual price for the Full Works TV package is £78 p/m, however there is a £53 discount applied for the first 3 months.

On the 31st March £3 is added to the £29.99 Broadband and £2 is added to the TV package at the £25 promotional rate. This makes £32.99 + £27 = £59.99 after 31st March. Then after the 3 months has passed the TV reverts to the usual pricing of £78 along with the £2 increase, which leads to £32.99 + £80 = £112.99. Then the following year will be +£3 to BB and +£2 to TV again which brings it to the £117.99.

 

[Dexta]

Oh so it's bascially a special offer at the current price of £54.99

I didn't clock the little yellow sticker at the top, just thought it was one of those "fake save $$$" column headers.

https://ee.co.uk/tv/choose-your-tv-package

When you take that into account at £117 - take away the £35 I already pay for BB it leaves it at £82

Sky works out at : £90 for me including the UHD upgrade but that includes the full Nextflix package not the cheapy and it has proper multi room and significantly more channels (although probably none I care about)

I think it's just TV prices in general have sky rockted to almost luxury items.

[Profile closed]

@Dexta You can add Netflix Premium for around £7 extra per month when you go through the order process.

I can tell you are frustrated as you are posting about it here and the Sky Community, so two words of advice:

1. The best deals on Sky only come once you leave (that is switched off, hardware returned)
2. You will only know if EE TV works for you if you try it and the best deals on TV are very often offered to existing customers who upgrade

[Weerab2024]

Another thing to think about is the limited amount of free to air IP channels with EE TV compared to sky if you take the apple TV box over the pro box, and Disney plus isn't included in the pro or mini boxes, but you can install it on the apple TV box. 

[Dexta]

Yes, I saw you can add Netlix packages but then it costs even more. The point made above is that I currently get the £18.99 netflix with UHD for a pitiful £8 with SKY so I would have to take that into account. I think EE TV was £13 to get to the same package.

1. Correct. I've been there. But decent deals can be done if you're prepared fully to walk away. I reduced my last bill by some £30 with ease. So I think I'm going to do that. 

Rather like the idea of EE TV in manyways but now multiroom isn't free and as functional as SKY's multiroom and the fact the EPG isn't as good and it purely relies on an internet connection I think I'm going to run back to SKY for now.Love EE and their support , I have 4 phones and broadand with them. EE TV isn't quite ticking everybox right now. 

It's only £9 cheaper a month than SKY when you include movies and sports.

If I was just going for the basic package, EE TV would edge it. Taking out the cost of my broadband already, I would be getting SKY basic package and basic netflix for £11.. Killer deal but I Need the darn sports.

[Dexta]

Yeah,also the now version of the SKY basic  package is a cutdown version of SKY's basic direct package. 
EE's multiroom, is not on par with SKY's . Each box has no real understanding of the other box in terms of what each one records.

Plus I hear EE TV is quite demanding bandwidth wise. I only get around 70mb here. I am concerned with all the kids access and so forth, we could end up grinding too a halt If I';m streaming some UHD content on it.

Got close, do love EE , their CS makes SKY look like monkeys , but it's just not the right fit right now.