{"id":885538,"date":"2026-04-10T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/885538\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:13:12","slug":"i-wanted-to-switch-my-broadband-provider-i-had-no-idea-what-i-was-signing-myself-up-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/885538\/","title":{"rendered":"I wanted to switch my broadband provider. I had no idea what I was signing myself up for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now armed with the figures, I entered my address on Virgin\u2019s site to confirm I could get the fastest speed (Gig1) in my area, closed my laptop and made a note to sort it out before the annual price increase on April 1st.<\/p>\n<p>That was where I went wrong. In the four days that followed, I had six missed calls from Sky, presumably hoping to convince me to sign a new contract, and 12 from Virgin hoping to seal the deal. These came every couple of hours until I got so fed up, I blocked the number.<\/p>\n<p>By the fourth day I was so angry that I contemplated no broadband at all just for some peace. Instead, I did what Virgin was no doubt hoping I would do: I opened my <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/recommended\/tech\/best-laptops-everyday-use\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laptop<\/a> back up and completed the switch. It took 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Before doing this, I rang Sky to see if it was able to match Virgin\u2019s price for a similar speed. I\u2019d always recommend this. Sadly, it came out \u00a311 a month more expensive, despite my years of loyalty. I hung up, a little disappointed my 14-year relationship was resulting in divorce without so much as a trip to the couple\u2019s counsellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now armed with the figures, I entered my address on Virgin\u2019s site to confirm I could get the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[250186,249953,72906,249952,197,244953,1715,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-885538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-better-broadband","tag-other-article","tag-recommended","tag-recommended-tech","tag-sky","tag-special-exclusion","tag-standard","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116382716011227637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}