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sky + and phone line

swingking · 2006-09-16 18:41:34

Can anyone tell me why I need to have a phone line when ordering sky + They came to install it and insisted that it be connected to the phone line. ???

16-09-2006 6:41pm

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swingking

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Can anyone tell me why I need to have a phone line when ordering sky +

They came to install it and insisted that it be connected to the phone line.

???

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#2 16-09-2006 7:06pm

Rambo

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swingking wrote:

Can anyone tell me why I need to have a phone line when ordering sky +

They came to install it and insisted that it be connected to the phone line.

???

Yes you do need a phone,
when installing the sky box they need to register it ,thats it.

you can take out phone line after they have left.
provided you have only one sky box.

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#3 16-09-2006 8:09pm

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Numerous threads on this already http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/searchbt.php?search=sky+%2B+and+phone+line

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#4 16-09-2006 8:15pm

Peter Henderson

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you can take out phone line after they have left.
provided you have only one sky box.

It depends whether or not you have a single box or Sky+and multiroom. In my experience, they(Sky) don't seem to worry if you have one box and the phone line becomes disconnected (when I had my standard Sky box, the phoneline was disconnected for at least a year and they didn't bother me !).

However, with Sky plus boxes, and multiroom i.e. additional subscriptions from the same dish at 10£/month extra (that's the price in the UK) they will block your subscription channels after a few days when this happens. You will then have to ring customer services in order to get them unblocked. They will also send you a letter informing you that the phoneline is disconnected This has happened to me once when the kids disconnected the phone line accidentally. I was informed by a Sky engineer that the reason is to do with people using different boxes from different addresses. For example, someone could take out a subscription package, add an additional box and card for £10 a month extra, but use that box and card from another dish at a different location.

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