received a letter today from Sky and looked on the website these are the
T&C:

Minimum subscription to your chosen Sky Broadband Product is 12 months. You must be a UK active residential Sky TV subscriber throughout your Sky Broadband subscription. Sky Broadband is only available to Sky TV subscribers paying by Direct Debit/continuous credit card mandate. Availability and speeds are subject to your location, a compatible line, equipment and survey.

Monthly subscription: Base - Free; Mid - £5; Max - £10; Connect - £17. Activation fee: Base - £40; Mid - £20; Max – free; Connect – £40. SHS Home Installation: Free if you subscribe to Sky Broadband Max, otherwise £50. Prices subject to change.

Monthly usage limit: Base: 2GB; Mid – 40GB; Max – Unlimited subject to Fair Usage Policy; Connect – 40GB. Maximum download speed: Base – up to 2Mb; Mid – up to 8Mb; Max – up to 16Mb; Connect – up to 8Mb. Maximum upload speed: Base – up to 400Kb; Mid – up to 400Kb; Max – up to 768Kb; Connect – up to 448Kb.

If your PC or laptop is not wireless enabled you can buy the necessary equipment from Sky.

If you are a PC user you will receive 12 months free McAfee Internet Security Suite worth £49.98. If you are a MAC user you will receive 12 months free McAfee Virex worth £29.99.

Eligibility and other terms apply.

Savings apply to Sky TV customers choosing a standalone broadband product and assume that you are not in the minimum term of a broadband contract.

Information correct at July 2006.
Bet I don't qualify because I don't have a BT line. :mad:

I've been looking at the same letter this morning- and wondering both where the catch in the small print is, and whether there will be the same sort of organisational cock-up over this as over TalkTalk boradband.

Guess what.. just had a check and no because I have a cable phone I DON'T QUALIFY!!!!!!!!! :rant:

I think in general, it is the likes of sky falling over themselves to get to grips with the pace of change.

Less than 10 years ago, home based wed use was pretty small, now it is..pretty large.

Technologies are moving on so fast that businesses are stuggling to know what to do with them.

Talk Talk took the view that it won't be long before having broadband as being the same as having running water and a toliet in your house

Probably just sky doing a similar exercise

We qualify as I have checked on their website and they have confirmed sky broadband is available for my postcode!!

Yippee!!!! :D

I personally think this is a brilliant offer from Sky. Only problem is for launch next month only 28% of the UK is covered and I'm not in that 28%.

Sky hope to reach 70% coverage by the end of next year.

Sky is competing with BT.

BT is moving toward TV on demand via internet and hope to steal SKY customers as a result.

SKY is moving toward internet as a result of BT move in hope to steal BT customers and what better ways than to offer free internet connection with their package.

Competition is a good thing.

When BT's 21st Century Network is complete in the not-too-distant future, they'll be offering free broadband to all as part of the line rental. Sky, Orange and others are making a landgrab and getting people to start signing up to contracts.
Competition is good, I'm actively looking around at the best option for me at the moment. Problem is I'm not keen to sign up for long periods of time. Also, everything works at the moment - may be more expensive, but I'm mostly connected. I'd hate to signup to one of these deals and find things like certain ports are blocked, hidden charges etc

NO:loopy:

sky is competing with Telewest. Sky will use Broadband over telephone line, only Bt's lines:thumbsup:


Sky is competing with BT.

BT is moving toward TV on demand via internet and hope to steal SKY customers as a result.

SKY is moving toward internet as a result of BT move in hope to steal BT customers and what better ways than to offer free internet connection with their package.

Competition is a good thing.

telewest / NTL soon to be renamed in November will beat the pants off sky and BT for ever, nobody will beat this company when the ball is rolling:thumbsup:

sorry but it true

telewest / NTL soon to be renamed in November will beat the pants off sky and BT for ever, nobody will beat this company when the ball is rolling:thumbsup:

sorry but it true

Hmmm, I wonder where you work...:suspect:

telewest / NTL soon to be renamed in November will beat the pants off sky and BT for ever, nobody will beat this company when the ball is rolling:thumbsup:

sorry but it true

sadly unless NTL want to get off their arses and extend the cable six metres from where it currently stops to reach my front door I will not be using them

I spent a year trying to get NTL to fit cable to my home, every other house downhill of me has cable but us lepers at the top are untouchable it seems

telewest / NTL soon to be renamed in November will beat the pants off sky and BT for ever, nobody will beat this company when the ball is rolling:thumbsup:

sorry but it true

Can I have a promise on that because Im paying a large amount of money for 2meg bb with TW when sky are offering it gratis. Now because I don't have a BT line I'm being held a prisoner. :rant:

telewest / NTL soon to be renamed in November will beat the pants off sky and BT for ever, nobody will beat this company when the ball is rolling:thumbsup:

sorry but it true

Rubbish. The quality of the TV channels is 'blocky', particularly when moving fast and there aren't as many channels as there are with Sky.

Sky is competing with BT.

BT is moving toward TV on demand via internet and hope to steal SKY customers as a result.

SKY is moving toward internet as a result of BT move in hope to steal BT customers and what better ways than to offer free internet connection with their package.

Competition is a good thing.


sky is bt.

BSykB as it was is over 1/3 rd owned by bt,hy do u think u had to have your box into a phone line.

sky is bt.

BSykB as it was is over 1/3 rd owned by bt,hy do u think u had to have your box into a phone line.

so they can snoop :P

oh and upload new firmware and updates

Can I have a promise on that because Im paying a large amount of money for 2meg bb with TW when sky are offering it gratis. Now because I don't have a BT line I'm being held a prisoner. :rant:

And thats exactly how people who can't have cable have felt for years :)

The only catch with Sky by broadband is that you have to be subscribed to the top packages in order to use it.

It is not how you image it to be.

There is a choice of films, and a choice of sports clips to choose from, and you download them individually, there is no streaming of certain channels.

In order to download the film clips you need to be subscribed to the film package on sky, and likewise for the sports clips.

I doubt that there is only a certain percentage of people who can use the service, as long as you know your sky viewing card number then you can watch from anywhere.

I recently went to visit my girlfriend in london, and used my viewing card number for up here, and we downloaded around 20 films.

Takes around 2 hours a film to download, but that was on university network.

Hope this clears things up.

IMO there's no catch as such, but at the base package, you're paying a one-off £90 for installation and connection and a 12 month contract. Thats £7.50 a month for the first year. If you stick with them, then great - its essentially free from that point onwards. But its not really free until then. (£7.50 wont get you much anywhere else of course...).

And that assumes you're already paying at least the minimum Sky subscription.

I think this is great, but perhaps more-so for Telewest NTL customers who I'm -sure- are now going to see reductions in the monthly charge.

i recieved a letter from sky today saying about their broadband and they said my postcode was not elegible for broadband:o
even though i am a sky subscriber have a bt landline and upto 8meg virgin broadband:loopy: must give them a call to find out why am not elegible for this service

Can I have a promise on that because Im paying a large amount of money for 2meg bb with TW when sky are offering it gratis. Now because I don't have a BT line I'm being held a prisoner. :rant:

Seriously though, what would make you think that a cable line provided and maintained by one cable company for exclusive access to their cable network would allow other providers to give you service?

I think that we have 2 different things here.

Some are I am talking about Sky BY Broadband whereby you can watch sky channels via broadband.

Others are talking about Sky Broadband which by the looks of it is offering sky customers free broadband if they subscribe to sky.

Adam

Edit: I'm a pillock.

Seems to be just you talking about SBB :p

Yeah, just reread it and realised.

Sorry, woops.

so they can snoop :P

oh and upload new firmware and updates

but they can do that with any phone line,sky historically demanded a BT landline for connection.
i dont know if its still the case.

i checked the site last night & registerd for it. i have bt broadband to one phone line, i was only just researching a cheap second broadband line so this post was rather fortuitous.

Orange are also offering 'free' broadband now, if you have a £30/mnth contract and a bt line you can get 2mb broadband for free.

so they can snoop :P

oh and upload new firmware and updates

and so you can use box office, order pizza's from domino, play some of the interactive games etc etc

but they can do that with any phone line,sky historically demanded a BT landline for connection.
i dont know if its still the case.

Interestingly enough, SKY are quite happy for my digibox to be connected to a cable line for billing purposes if I order box office so I don't see the difference.

Just one thing about free broadband..

When a product is 'Free' it is a 'Value Add' product and as such no-one really cares about supporting it; although they might.

Bear in mind, when you say "It doesn't work, I need it", they can say "So? It's free, what do you want?".

Originally Posted by John
Sky is competing with BT.

BT is moving toward TV on demand via internet and hope to steal SKY customers as a result.

SKY is moving toward internet as a result of BT move in hope to steal BT customers and what better ways than to offer free internet connection with their package.

Competition is a good thing.
NO:loopy:

sky is competing with Telewest. Sky will use Broadband over telephone line, only Bt's lines:thumbsup:

There was no need for the :loopy:

What I wrote was indeed correct:
http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=&subclass=&id=1244
http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=807&id=2166962005

BT just doesn't get 100% of the income for SKY subscribers.

Just one thing about free broadband..
Bear in mind, when you say "It doesn't work, I need it", they can say "So? It's free, what do you want?".

Good point :)

Good point :)

Yeah the tech support may not be that good. However they are installing it for free

Yeah the tech support may not be that good. However they are installing it for free

Same as everyone else with minimum contract terms..

Any1 had a letter about this, and is it of any intrest to you, whats it like, thanks.:)

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