Sky broadband offer

Diving Board

Sky rep at the door tonight in Ennis. Offering new 1TB broadband enabled box for €30 install charge and 1 month free all channels. He said SKY broadband would be coming next year and they would want to be at least as good as UPC.

PogMoThoin

Diving Board wrote: »

Sky rep at the door tonight in Ennis. Offering new 1TB broadband enabled box for €30 install charge and 1 month free all channels. He said SKY broadband would be coming next year and they would want to be at least as good as UPC.

He's spouting pure nonsence. In order for Sky to enter the Irish market they'd need to buy one of the big players like they did in UK which wouldn't make sense financially, not in Ireland with the way things are with Eircom having a monopoly owning all the phone lines (which are in a dire state).

It cannot be delivered by satellite, they're too far away

Mr. G

Fair enough but remember Sky are the tv market leader in Ireland. They already sell phone and broadband in the UK, through BT wholesale, undoubtedly they will come here. I doubt it will be fibre though, he's talking through his backside.

vibe666

they might be a market leader in their field, but they have nowhere to go as far as broadband is concerned and there aren't enough people in Ireland for it to be worth them rolling out their own fibre, even in a large city like dublin or cork, much less somewhere the size of ennis (which, accoring to wikipedia is the 11th largest population centre in ireland with a population of </> 25k people).

if they were going to roll out fibre anywhere, it would likely be somewhere in the UK like birmingham with a population of around 1m and enough of a population density to make it worth while for them.

the only realistic option open to them in ireland is to do what everyone else is doing and resell eircom's DSL, which isn't going to make them a huge amount of money, even if they bundle it with their TV packages as they will still need to buy it off eircom in the first place.

that's not to say they won't do that, they probably will, just to have more attractive bundle offers being as the billing and such (as well as an existing customer base) is already in place, but it's not going to be anything that will blow anyone's skirt up.

Sponge Bob

Salesman talking through his hole shock horror. UPC Broadband may be coming to Ennis in Q4 2012....and maybe never.

jor el

Mr_Grumpy wrote: »

They already sell phone and broadband in the UK, through BT wholesale, undoubtedly they will come here.

No they won't. Neither the market nor infrastructure exists here.

Thread closed, as fictitious Sky Broadband threads have been done to death already.