Its like $4 a week cheaper than a slingshot (Vocus) advertised plan.
Is there anything transformative about the offer.?
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Its like $4 a week cheaper than a slingshot (Vocus) advertised plan.
Is there anything transformative about the offer.?
Seems to me that most suppliers are charging $95-99 for the same 900mbps down. compare that with $105.99 with sky basic. ~$10 for all of sky basic channels seems a pretty solid offering to me for those without sky. I see no reason that anyone already with sky shouldn't sign up for broadband too.
No fireworks here. Very vanilla offering. Rightly not a price sensitive announcement.
Although I don't think Sky Broadband will be a flop, it is going to be difficult to get existing customers to move from Spark or Vodafone. However, with new connections they should be competitive, but then again, how many new customers are joining while also having a traditional Skybox.
That's the real irony here. It's hard to get a old people to switch telco providers, but it's equally as hard for them to let their tradition TV subscription go. Sky can't really win but can't lose either.
I just see this as the first step to a merger and or takeover. Getting the billing system right and letting their customers know there's more to them than just Pay TV is key. People love one bill and they love combos.
ViacomCBS just raised $3 billion. I'm hoping they can come in and join Discovery and Comcast. It will be like watching a done up Villa in Ponsonby go to auction!
Seems like a good plan to me. The broadband at 400mps is cheap by NZ standards, that is if those speeds are actually widely available. As a gamer am tempted to switch across from telecom. Only thing putting me off changing is I would lose my long standing email addresses.
The only downside of course is you have to have sky starter package. Good for sky though, as once they hook existing customers into broadband they will be less likely to leave.
It also opens up plenty of future bundle possibilities, especially with tv now moving largely digital.
Downside is every man and his dog are now bundling internet and something else. Had an offer from trustpower yesterday, offering an electricity and fibre bundle. So lots of competition, but overall looks a positive move.
Seems like a more than reasonable offer for high quality internet to me.
As Ogg points out, we should not expect hundreds of thousands of Sky Box customers to switch overnight. Many existing Sky Box customers are happy with their current telco and happy with their Sky setup. That is fine by us.
Let’s see how many do switch over - some savings to be had, plus much faster internet and better performance with the new routers.
Hooking in new business opportunities may be more of a go. There are a lot of houses with fibre in their streets that are still on VDSL. I believe part of the strategy is for Sky to target these areas too.
Let’s see what happens.
Sentiment in the media seems generally positive. Which is amazing for journos writing about Sky!
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/12463...speed-ufb-plan
Expect fibre pricing to come down across the board as competition heats up. Our fibre is some of the most expensive in the world, plenty of room for the likes of spark to counter attack. In the UK would be paying less than half what we are at the moment for similar offerings.
Other question is do we really need 400mps. Currently on 100 and experience no lag on netflix etc, so doubtful it would make any difference to performance. Only area it might is gaming, but even then the bottleneck is usually with the game companies servers. For example EA servers are generally poor, even for those with super fast speeds.
A couple of years ago we changed from sky satellite tv to a vodaphone broadband package with TV
Was thinking of going back to satellite tv as the system does not seem to be able to download fast enough when I am using youtube and my wife is watching TV .
Broadband TV lags and eventually has to be reset.
Very frustrating.
Suspect we do not have enough broadband width .
I do not have much interest in TV or broadband speeds as long as it does what I want .
I do wonder if this could be a big problem as people are induced into changing from satellite to broadband tv
If you have fibre, not fixed wireless and you plug your TV into the router (not wifi connected) will be rock solid, any problems will be with the streaming provider. If your devices are using wi-fi to connect, very likely the cause of your issues. Posting to be helpful BTW
Judging by how Spark's share price reacted to the news yesterday, it certainly looks promising for Sky.