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Unsubscribing from Sky Communal Dish

  • 26-02-2013 2:30pm
    #1
    JohnnyBananas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    I live in an apartment block and I am thinking of unsubscribing from our Sky communal dish.

    I know that if a private household with their own dish unsubscribe, they still get to use the dish for the free channels (eg BBC)

    Can anyone with experience of unsubscribing from a communal dish tell me if you still get to use the free channels after unsubscribing, or if you get cut off from the dish entirely.

    All help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all responses.


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  • #2
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    Communal dishes are run by the apartments management company (or whoever they contracted it out to), so you would have to ask them what their policy is. It is entirely up to them if they cut people off or not.


  • #3
    homelink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭homelink


    JohnnyBananas wrote: »
    Hi All,

    I live in an apartment block and I am thinking of unsubscribing from our Sky communal dish.

    I know that if a private household with their own dish unsubscribe, they still get to use the dish for the free channels (eg BBC)

    Can anyone with experience of unsubscribing from a communal dish tell me if you still get to use the free channels after unsubscribing, or if you get cut off from the dish entirely.

    All help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all responses.
    I would be greatly surprised if somebody came out to disconnect your feed into your apartment. There would be a cost involved in sending someone out for disconnection & if your subscription was with Sky directly & not some other party then there shouldn't be an issue. Sky will not send out anyone to disconnect your supply.


  • #4
    zg3409
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,034 ✭✭✭zg3409


    Just be aware in general if you cancel Sky

    1) RTE is not free via a Sky box so all the Irish channels will be blocked (you would need an aerial to get them, depending on the communal TV setup, an aerial feed may already be provided to you, so you would need a Saorview box for this) -Best to ask mangement company of there is a communal aerial in addition to the dish

    2) Sky stop the box from recording anything any more

    3) Sky stop old recordings from playing.


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