Sky TV cost increase 1/6/15!!!

[Welshbeef]

Just home to find a nice message from Sky package is increasing monthly by £4.50pcm on top of the £3 inflation they put on 1/9/15.

The increase is spread over all packages not just sport.


As such - when my free upgrades run out I will be stopping sports and movies.
I believe my package with fibre normal price would be over £110pcm.... Struggling to see the value. Accept Atlantic HD (Ill keep F1 and Eurosport) and can view all the back catalogues.

[Welshbeef]

If I cancelled the lot - the gross salary I have to earn to pay for if (40%) means its a c£2.2k per year pay rise.....

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McWigglebum4th said:

fk me you must really love your idiot box to pay that

You spend more on sky in a year then i do running my car

Virgin is similar money

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CMYKguru said:

I think anyone paying more than £50 a month for Broadband/TV needs to have a serious think.

Unless your filthy rich and couldn't really care less of course.

You do know how much
Fibre
Landline
Anytime calls package
Movies
Sports
Multiroom
Etcetera costs.

Note don't go to cinema nor pub to watch sports - used to a lot and would easily spend £500-800pcm on such things. Now I'm struggling to justify it from a basis of I don't have the time to watch it all hence cutting back.

Don't buy or rent DVDs either

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megaphone said:

I was 'given' free Sky Sports and Movies for 3 months on my Virgin package. I think I watched 4 movies in that time, what a load of repeated dross. Watched a few football matches I would not have usually watched, but only because they where on. I would not pay the extra £30 a month for it. If I'm desperate to watch a match then I go to the pub or get a Now TV pass.

There is more than 1 person in a household so films get watched - as for sports leaving your family at home when your at work most of the week... Really? Seems very fair.