cancelling sky in apartment with optical feed?

bittihuduga

hi
in my apartment, we have the sky communal dish connection which is fed through fibre optic cable into the sky box.
i am thinking of cancelling sky tv and going free to air only as the contract is over.
my concern is, if I cancel sky, will they take away the sky cable too?
unlike normal sky in a house, the sky customer keeps the dish and the box and cables, I am not sure how does it work with sky fibre optic.
the optical connection uses a small fibre optical feed splitter or something.
i am afraid that they may take away that tiny box if i cancel sky.

has anyone cancelled sky in apartment with fibre optical feed?

Hotblack Desiato

That depends. Unfortunately there are a lot of dodgy operators in the apartment TV market,* who will gouge you for additional fees on top of Sky, then cut you off entirely if you stop paying. Should be illegal.


* 'market' implies choice, but you've no choice other than what your management company allows you, aka the provider they're in bed with. Unless you can get good indoor Saorview and you're happy with that.

bittihuduga

Thanks for the response mate. I think the communal dish is managed by sky kbo

Mountjoy Mugger

Our management company queried this with the installer (Finlays) and were told that the cable would not be removed after a cancellation.