MoneySavingExpert.com has just posted the following message with the title Sky Free Sat.
Don't know how many of you know about this or if it has been posted before but we have just cancelled our Sky to try to cut back a bit and discovered that you can get Free Sat (200 channels on freeview which is more or less equivalent to Sky's basic package at £18 per month) for a one off fee of £20 if you still have the sky box and dish, if you had multiroom aswell like we did, you can still have this for free and if you had Sky + and already had an existing sky + contract you can have this for £10 per month So what we were paying £31 per month for (basic package Sky + and multiroom) we can now get for just £10!!!, when I asked the guy why they didn't offer us free sat when we cancelled (different phone number to order free sat from cancelling sky) he said it was because we didn't ask and obviously it is in their interests to keep us on the normal subscription. Have a look at sky's website and it shows you the offers for free sat, currently £75 one off fee to receive 200 channels and 4 months of the full package on trial free (we couldn't get this though as we are current customers, but because we already have a dish and box, that's why we have to just pay the one off fee of £20) the phone number to call is also on the website
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