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Re: BT sport
« Reply #30 on: 01 August 2013, 20:00:56 »
Quote from: tunnie on 01 August 2013, 19:04:34
Biggest problem BT have is just 36 football premiership games, no other big sports. May stop a few leaving, but cannot see vast numbers leaving for BT for a lot less sport and value added products.
You reckon?

£43.50 for Sky Sports, which may include free (but very limited) broadband if you're lucky enough to live in LLU area.
£15 for BT Sports, including (supposedly) truely unlimited broadband nationwide. Or you can add Sky Sports as well, and still end up way less that the Sky price.

At a time when the vast majority are seeing a real-term reduction in income.

The 38 (not 36 - you're not the first from Sky to say that) are the exclusive ones, which aren't on Sky. There are others that are shared not just with Sky, but beeb and ITV.


Personally, I couldn't give a monkeys about either Sky or BT Sport, as MOTD highlights are too much pain when being a Villa fan ;D ;D ;D.  However, I suspect Uncle Rupert is whipping his yes men onto social media and forums, arming them with mis information.  Although I do not work for BT, I happen to work in a BT office that has one of the BT call centres, and it is quite enlightening  :-X
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #31 on: 01 August 2013, 20:01:45 »
Quote from: STEMO on 01 August 2013, 19:30:00
So...is the subscription just for the actual premiership games? I'm watching Man City v Bayern Munich now.
BT Sport is free an anyone tonight, as part of the launch.
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #32 on: 01 August 2013, 20:36:15 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 01 August 2013, 20:01:45
Quote from: STEMO on 01 August 2013, 19:30:00
So...is the subscription just for the actual premiership games? I'm watching Man City v Bayern Munich now.
BT Sport is free an anyone tonight, as part of the launch.
Well...they've shot themselves in the foot, cos it's shite. ;D
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #33 on: 01 August 2013, 20:41:26 »
Its not free on freeview.Ive just tried it (at work) and its scrambled. ::)
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #34 on: 01 August 2013, 20:59:24 »
Quote from: Albitz on 01 August 2013, 20:41:26
Its not free on freeview.Ive just tried it (at work) and its scrambled. ::)

Not on Virgin either :)
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #35 on: 01 August 2013, 21:36:18 »
Quote from: Albitz on 01 August 2013, 20:41:26
Its not free on freeview.Ive just tried it (at work) and its scrambled. ::)
Ch57 I think - the one labelled as BT Sport, not BT Sport1 or BT Sport2 which are scambled.

Not sure when the freebie bit is being turned off.
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #36 on: 02 August 2013, 00:32:30 »
Quote from: tunnie on 01 August 2013, 20:59:24
Quote from: Albitz on 01 August 2013, 20:41:26
Its not free on freeview.Ive just tried it (at work) and its scrambled. ::)

Not on Virgin either :)

Don't have those that anywhere near here anyway.
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #37 on: 02 August 2013, 09:34:53 »
There is a lot of confusion on this thread and maybe we should just consider what is a baseline cost.

In the house up north we have orange broadband - about 6 Mbps speed and land line for £19 a month roughly £14 for the landline and £5 for the broadband. The router is connected to a smart tv which cost £199 from Sainsbury (celcus or something). Obviously calls on top but is this what we would agree is the baseline (or similar deals).?
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #38 on: 02 August 2013, 10:57:04 »
Just spec'd up Full Fibre (76mb) with BT, getting their free Sports and FreeView pack, with phone (no calling packs) comes in at £40.45. That's very similar to Sky, except Sky force an entertainment pack on you, compared to BT giving freeview.

Not bad, that is almost exactly what I pay Virgin for 30MB Cable internet, "medium" TV pack which has some Music and extra stuff on top of free-view, but clearly no Sports.

Could be tempted at my hopeful new place to go for BT rather than Virgin, although need to see what Ariel is like.
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #39 on: 03 August 2013, 08:58:14 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 01 August 2013, 18:47:15
Quote from: Lizzie Zoom on 01 August 2013, 18:44:58
Quote from: pscocoa on 01 August 2013, 17:43:13
Add £5 to Lizzie's number for bt sports 1 and 2 and you get also the iPad app to watch bt sports anywhere. 6pm launch approaches.

I get those free this year! :D :D :y :y

Mind you I will not be watching them! ;D ;D ;D ;)
You, as a BT broadband customer, get them for free forever (as currently envisaged), for SD.  Its only HD that you get for free for one year only.

I remember TB when Sky promised so much "Free" within the initial subscription price (then £10 per month back in the 1980s) and quickly added "extra" sport, like big boxing and special football games for an additional fee!  I suspect BT will do the same. ::) ::) ::) ;)
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #40 on: 03 August 2013, 09:04:09 »
Quote from: tunnie on 02 August 2013, 10:57:04
Just spec'd up Full Fibre (76mb) with BT, getting their free Sports and FreeView pack, with phone (no calling packs) comes in at £40.45. That's very similar to Sky, except Sky force an entertainment pack on you, compared to BT giving freeview.

Not bad, that is almost exactly what I pay Virgin for 30MB Cable internet, "medium" TV pack which has some Music and extra stuff on top of free-view, but clearly no Sports.

Could be tempted at my hopeful new place to go for BT rather than Virgin, although need to see what Ariel is like.


Are you sure about that Tunnie?

An Open Reach BT engineer who recently upgraded my service to Infinity said the fibre optic lines were only to the "box in the street", and the old lines into my property would remain to handle Infinity.  He then went on to state that only very large commercial concerns had full fibre optic lines right into their premises as it "cost £20,000 to install those lines" :o :o :o

I stopped then pushing the engineer to run fibre optic cable into my flat!! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #41 on: 03 August 2013, 09:11:59 »
Yes, Plenty of residential properties can have FTTP (Fibre to the Premesis), rather than FTTC (Fibre to the Cab), little dearer, and faster (300meg down, 20 up).

(£26 gets you 76 meg down
£35 gets you 160 meg down
£50 gets you the full 300!)


Father in law, 200 meters or so away can have FTTP, we can 'only' get FTTC
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #42 on: 03 August 2013, 09:14:10 »
Well thats on their retail customer based website, that's the price they quoted for that speed.

Course that does depend on how far from the box you are, also who else down your road is using the internet.
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #43 on: 04 August 2013, 11:08:22 »
The broadband package you quoted is for a (almost) genuinely unlimited FTTC package,


LZ - I suspect the SD versions will remain free for the foreseeable future. The HD ones I reckon will be the premium option, and are now chargable (although free for first year if you signed up before 31st July).
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Re: BT sport
« Reply #44 on: 04 August 2013, 22:43:06 »
Took up BT Sport (& BT vision) last week. Box arrived Friday and tonight I enjoyed live Indycar racing from Mid-Ohio. Good buy, methinks.

BTW Excellent first win for Charlie Kimball, a 28-year old Type 1 diabetic.  :y :y
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