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Yikes, yet another re-contract offer from BT. Sits alongside other fixed-term offers like Line Rental Saver and BT Privacy. Its probably normal to have about 5 different term end dates with BT these days, unless maybe one pays for each service in the interim before re-contracting all the different offers on the same date.
Messy.
Oliver.
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What's needed is a discount for those that have no interest in BT Sport.
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PlusNet? Indeed (my current ISP) but not all BT users want BT Sport and may not wish to change their ISP. What next will BT require their customers to pay for regardless of whether they want it or not? And no, I don't include line rental here since the "line" is an essential part of the connection
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Erm, BT Sport is free with BT Broadband. If you don't want it, a) they can't force you to watch, b) join another ISP.
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Erm, BT Sport is free with BT Broadband. If you don't want it, a) they can't force you to watch, b) join another ISP.
Or move to BT Business where it is not available!
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Erm, BT Sport is free with BT Broadband. If you don't want it, a) they can't force you to watch, b) join another ISP. As is often the case it appears that you simply don't understand the question. You are however correct in that b) is the only option at present but that loses BT customers (as I guess does its Indian Call Centre) which I would have thought is something that BT would prefer to avoid.
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I think in this case it is you who can't grasp the meaning of the word "free".
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What's needed is a discount for those that have no interest in BT Sport.
wont happen officially as then the "free of charge comes into dispute". unofficially via retention deals? who knows.
BT are so addicted to long term contracts have they really spent billions on rights just to make customers recontract? seems a bit excessive.
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Last time I asked about a retention deal, they offered me £1 off 
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Football supporters face having to pay more than ever to watch Britain�s top clubs on television after BT confirmed it would charge viewers for its Champions League coverage.
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BT insisted that shift in policy would only apply to the Champions League and Europa League rights it acquired in audacious fashion on Saturday morning and that the company had no plans to start charging for Premier League football or its other sports coverage.
I'm still unsure about the above quote from a previous article. It seems to be saying BT Sport viewers have to pay extra to watch Champions League, but Premier League has no additional charge.
Oliver.
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The BT Sport is not yet to a pay standard IMO. However, it does attract and keep customers whilst free.
On a Non LLU exchange there are no offerings worth the hassle of moving from BT.
I do like the facility of free Wifi whilst out and about.
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It is available with BT Business.
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It is available with BT Business.
Please confirm that you are indeed a BT Business Customer and that it actually works on your connection.
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the free wifi has never been useful when I may have needed it.
when I had downtime on my vdsl was no wifi in my area (and I am in high density city area), when I visit my parents, again no BT wifi available.
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Football supporters face having to pay more than ever to watch Britain�s top clubs on television after BT confirmed it would charge viewers for its Champions League coverage.
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BT insisted that shift in policy would only apply to the Champions League and Europa League rights it acquired in audacious fashion on Saturday morning and that the company had no plans to start charging for Premier League football or its other sports coverage.
I'm still unsure about the above quote from a previous article. It seems to be saying BT Sport viewers have to pay extra to watch Champions League, but Premier League has no additional charge.
They don't have the champions league until the 2015/16 season.
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They don't have the champions league until the 2015/16 season.
Yeah. The question was what will happen in 2015, whether BT Sport will charge extra for Champions League but keep Premier League inclusive, as the article suggests.
Oliver.
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I had a flyer about it a few weeks ago.
It's £12 (+£3 for HD) a month for non-commercial premises (i.e. you work from home or have a business account and want to use it personally)
It's £75 a month for offices/commercial premises, as long as they aren't licensed facilities or a hotel.
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Amazing what investing so heavily in content while avoiding spending on infrastructure like it's a disease can do for you.
Still haven't used my BT Sport subscription once.
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I had a flyer about it a few weeks ago.
It's £12 (+£3 for HD) a month for non-commercial premises (i.e. you work from home or have a business account and want to use it personally)
It's £75 a month for offices/commercial premises, as long as they aren't licensed facilities or a hotel.
Thank you for that explanation; it was a year or so that I enquired about the service and was told then that it wasn't available to BT Business customers; clearly the situation has now changed. Even so it comes with a price tag for BT Business customers. However, look on their web site to read: "BT Sport is FREE for all existing broadband customers". Well, if your facts are right, that is simply not true. BT are a law unto themselves with advertising and I guess everything is made crystal clear n the small print or what they call "the legal stuff".
As it happens we have an excellent broadband service from BT which at the end of the first 24th month contract, the monthly cost was, by negotiation, reduced to match the competition. So very happy on that front. but it would have been nice to just occasionally dip into watching sport at the office. However at £75 a month, we can forget that idea!
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I wonder why BT like the end dates all to be different............................
The only thing that I watch on BT sport is the Moto GP coverage. It's not a patch on the BBC coverage of last year though, but it's better than nothing.
I have BT Infinity 2 and watch via the internet on tablet via Chromecast. The last two weekends I have been unable to get to the 'watch' screen for Sport 2 (or 1) either on tablet, phone, or laptop. ESPN worked OK though! I suspect BT keep blocking it, hoping I'll pay a subscription (which I most certainly will not) to watch via Freeview/Freesat. Maybe they just can't cope with the volume. Either way, if I can't watch Moto GP it gives me little incentive to stay with BT, since I have no interest in anything else on BT Sport.
It works perfectly every time at 'non-peak' times though. My Infinity connection speed is ~65Mb/s so should be adequate.
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I've also noticed that BT has made all its broadband deals 18 months minimum term now. Previously only Infinity was 18 months.
Oliver.
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I've also noticed that BT has made all its broadband deals 18 months minimum term now. Previously only Infinity was 18 months. That's the price you pay for their "free" dinner.
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That's why they increased line rental, and calling plans, as well as ceasing to provide caller display and answer 1571 Free as part of bt privacy , we all have subsidised BT sport even those who only have telephony services with BT ,
Bt Sport i could not give a monkeys about it, not interested at all
Edited by tommy45 (Sat 03-May-14 14:01:45)
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I have no argument with you there. BT are pushing BT Sport to all regardless of demand and making all of their customers pay for it whether they want or use it or not or can even have access. I cannot but hope that this costs BT more than they have bargained for and that those who don't want BT Sport minimise the amount they pay BT by moving to other suppliers.
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Same could be said for all the other 'free' extras like
BT Cloud
BT Wifi
Email accounts
AV software
Parental Controls and the list goes on.
If BT did not have some form of TV service it would be the odd one out amongst the large 4 providers, by having the TV plus some of its OWN content it makes it different to say TalkTalk TV
As yet there has not been a quarter since the launch of sport where customer numbers have gone down.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/images/factsheet/q1-20...
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I think if you look at the small print, it will say for residential broadband customers only.
Commercial subscriptions will always be more expensive than residential and they are an important source of revenue for the likes of BT Sport and Sky. For general offices, BT Sport won't know if 5 people or 1,000 people would be able to view the channel. I suppose that would be one reason why they charge a standard price for offices, but it is understandable why it's significantly more than a residential subscription.
BT Sport would have been available to public houses/betting shops from the outset. The cost will be high, but it's a necessity to attract people.
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Same could be said for all the other 'free' extras ... The problem being, of course, is that they're not "free" but instead paid for by all users regardless of whether they either want or use these "extras".
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As yet there has not been a quarter since the launch of sport where customer numbers have gone down.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/images/factsheet/q1-20...
Statistics can both inform and mislead. I would have switched providers had I not got a decent retention offer.
The data seen from your hyperlink is up to December 2013. If locked into a contract you would be financially disadvantaged not to wait until its naturally end.
Care to predict that BTs market share will have remained stable, and perhaps grown, when the 2014 figures are available? And who will be the main beneficiaries?
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No reason to doubt a similar level of growth
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Amazing what investing so heavily in content while avoiding spending on infrastructure like it's a disease can do for you.
Still haven't used my BT Sport subscription once.
accountants sadly, only the short term gains matter. 
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I've also noticed that BT has made all its broadband deals 18 months minimum term now. Previously only Infinity was 18 months.
also that their early cancellation fee is almost full price. nice profit to be made there from customers not even with a service.
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