{"id":524133,"date":"2026-04-10T22:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:43:06","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524133\/","title":{"rendered":"I wanted to switch my broadband provider. I had no idea what I was signing myself up for"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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 laptop<\/a> back up and completed the switch. It took 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[182014,59,181755,166689,181754,7355,169376,5438,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-524133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-better-broadband","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-other-article","11":"tag-recommended","12":"tag-recommended-tech","13":"tag-sky","14":"tag-special-exclusion","15":"tag-standard","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}