I'm sure others on here will agree with me here.
Been with Sky for 5 years. At first, we got a free digibox and subscription was £32 a month for complete package - all channels. Also paid £40 for "installation". Fair enough.
Now, after 2 years, you would think we had paid enough so our digibox was now ours, wouldn't you, and thus we were just paying for channels. Wrong. Since we started with Sky, subscription has gone up and up and up, now at £45 a month or similar. They try to fob us off with "we have more variety of channels". Anyone ever watched 181 AVAGO? 223 OBE? 244 LONDON TV? 279 YooPlayTV? Its not variety, its rubbish. I bet 99% of Sky viewers never venture past ch188 reality tv. And Sky receives revenue FROM these channels.
THE REAL REASON sky charges £40 odd a month for subscription is because it is STILL giving away free digiboxes AND installation! Which we, as long-term customers, have been funding from the first day of our viewing! Not only have we paid for our digibox, we have also paid for at least 10 others!
The real gripe is that people wouldn't mind paying £200 for the box and dish and install if the subscription was cheaper! And if they showed less adverts on SkyOne. They could make subscription, say, £20 a month if they stopped this free install and box nonsense.
This is my theory anyway, and personally im fed up with paying thru the nose for other people's free digiboxes, especially if ours breaks down, we have to pay £100 for a new one. The BLOODY CHEEK.
And we have no other option for digital TV. Cable TV is available on EVERY STREET IN CUSWORTH EXCEPT MINE and im not stooping to freeview. A real shame these con artists have a monopoly in some areas.
Been with Sky for 5 years. At first, we got a free digibox and subscription was £32 a month for complete package - all channels. Also paid £40 for "installation". Fair enough.
Now, after 2 years, you would think we had paid enough so our digibox was now ours, wouldn't you, and thus we were just paying for channels. Wrong. Since we started with Sky, subscription has gone up and up and up, now at £45 a month or similar. They try to fob us off with "we have more variety of channels". Anyone ever watched 181 AVAGO? 223 OBE? 244 LONDON TV? 279 YooPlayTV? Its not variety, its rubbish. I bet 99% of Sky viewers never venture past ch188 reality tv. And Sky receives revenue FROM these channels.
THE REAL REASON sky charges £40 odd a month for subscription is because it is STILL giving away free digiboxes AND installation! Which we, as long-term customers, have been funding from the first day of our viewing! Not only have we paid for our digibox, we have also paid for at least 10 others!
The real gripe is that people wouldn't mind paying £200 for the box and dish and install if the subscription was cheaper! And if they showed less adverts on SkyOne. They could make subscription, say, £20 a month if they stopped this free install and box nonsense.
This is my theory anyway, and personally im fed up with paying thru the nose for other people's free digiboxes, especially if ours breaks down, we have to pay £100 for a new one. The BLOODY CHEEK.
And we have no other option for digital TV. Cable TV is available on EVERY STREET IN CUSWORTH EXCEPT MINE and im not stooping to freeview. A real shame these con artists have a monopoly in some areas.