Broadband switch deals

Lads!
I'm on Sky BB until 28th of this month, €30 per month. I haven't called them yet what they can offer. Eir seems to be good, €34.99/month + €100 credit, so €26.65/month for 1 year.
When should I start the switching process? Billing date is on 24th, the next bill (covering the first out of contract month) will be DD'd on 25th March, with an increased price of €64. I don't want either to pay that and break the contract.

@gunnerfitzy
Their terms read:

From 1 April 2026, the standard price of certain Broadband products will increase by €3.50. If you are a customer who is new to Sky, this will not impact your offer price for the duration of your offer.

Plus you are getting a special price, not a standard one.
So no, you won't pay it.

Thank you!

Should start the switching process on the last day then?
Oh, I've flipping forgot the access network thing, been on SIRO (Vodafone, Sky), so the transition over to (open) Eir, would come with new ONT installation too, making the switch less seamless?

Oh yeah then it'll be a switch, eir doesn't use SIRO at all. I'd get in contact with eir now and tell them when you want them to start, as a new installation will be needed if you don't have it currently.

It'll involve a another fibre cable being brought in and another ONT installed. open eir usually follow the phone line route or maybe up into your telecoms box on the outside of the house.

You should be able to tell eir to cancel Sky for you under the new IAS switching process, they'll ask for some account details. If they won't, but they should, you'll have to give Sky 30 days notice for cancellation instead.

https://www.eir.ie/switching/

I've received yesterday the email with bill increase from 28th of April with Sky for 500Mb deal.
I called their customer service(did not had to wait even 1 min for someone to pick up) and wanted to move to 1Gb for 35 a month. The guy on the phone could not give me this deal, so he updated the account so I wont get charged when switching to another company.
Actually he even said to switch away every year or when possible for best prices.

I requested a call from puretelecom via onebigswitch with the 30euro offer.

In 5 minutes I "canceled" with sky and moved to puretelecom.

Is like all this service providers don't want to keep you as customer.
Why not offer the new customer deal to existing ones?

They are required to give you a period to leave as they increased the price without it being mentioned specifically in the contract at the start.

If you are cancelling outright then you need to give Sky 30 days notice but if you are switching you should be able to straight away, once you've received the Contract Change Notification. Just give the new provider your UAN and ensure you're staying on the same access network (open eir, SIRO, NBI).

Thanks!
If I can get BB for €30 again, it's not worth the hassle for the sake of 40 quid. When the year is up, I might face ONT change again when switching.

my sky ended today and pure started.

My pure BB router hasn't arrived so its working via the sky router for some reason.

I rang pure and it seems they hadn't even dispatched the router yet.

Thanks appreciate that.

I don't have my login details for the router yet, which is a pain as the alarm company is completely tomorrow for a separate issue and would of got them to do the door bell etc on the new network

Thanks I will when it arrives

Do you know which access network you are on currently with Sky? - open eir, SIRO, NBI

open eir will have an 8 digit UAN or CRN that starts with 888. SIRO will have a SIRO Account Number, that starts with SI. NBI have a NBI Line ID, I'm not sure of the number layout with NBI.

You'll know which your on by looking at the ONT that was installed on the wall. If it's a Huawei ONT with no logo, it's most likely open eir. SIRO will most likely have their logo on their Huawei ONT. NBI will most likely have their logo on their Nokia ONT.

Great, thank you very much for the information, much appreciated.

you can connect to Sky using IPoE, you have to set a couple of DHCP options.

It’s only available to people on their old coax network. I tried it and cancelled after 1 day as dropouts and latency were off the scale but a lot will depend on the quality of the cabling in your estate and into your house. It doesn’t rely on Siro so it’s not the same quality.