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bubblegun 09-12-2014 05:00

New Sky Fibre product
 
It's called Sky Fibre - note the Not Unlimited!

It has a 25Gb usage cap and is £10 per month, 18 month contract and £50 setup although setup is reduced to £30 at launch.

Speed is up to 40 Mbit with up to 9.5 Mbit upload.

Unlike BT, but in common will all previous Sky broadband products, your on-demand usage will count towards this cap.

There'll be press release along in a bit (later today).

(I have cross-posted this on Digital Spy)

Stop It 09-12-2014 09:07

Re: New Sky Fibre product
 
Well, I guess it's an option for some, but doesn't make sense to me.

If you want "Super Fast" broadband like FTTC or VM Cable, surely that means you're going to use it. I know I'm an exception, but I downloaded 40GB last weekend downloading 7 games from a pack of games my other half bought on Steam.

Especially if On Demand counts towards the cap, that wont last long.

muppetman11 09-12-2014 11:52

Re: New Sky Fibre product
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by bubblegun (Post 35745764)
It's called Sky Fibre - note the Not Unlimited!

It has a 25Gb usage cap and is £10 per month, 18 month contract and £50 setup although setup is reduced to £30 at launch.

Speed is up to 40 Mbit with up to 9.5 Mbit upload.

Unlike BT, but in common will all previous Sky broadband products, your on-demand usage will count towards this cap.

There'll be press release along in a bit (later today).

(I have cross-posted this on Digital Spy)

Announced here

---------- Post added at 10:52 ---------- Previous post was at 10:28 ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stop It (Post 35745777)
Well, I guess it's an option for some, but doesn't make sense to me.

If you want "Super Fast" broadband like FTTC or VM Cable, surely that means you're going to use it. I know I'm an exception, but I downloaded 40GB last weekend downloading 7 games from a pack of games my other half bought on Steam.

Especially if On Demand counts towards the cap, that wont last long.

Totally agree , I guess it must have a target audience though as BT seem to advertise it a lot.

Media Boy UK 09-12-2014 12:50

Re: New Sky Fibre product
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35745800)
Announced here

---------- Post added at 10:52 ---------- Previous post was at 10:28 ----------


Totally agree , I guess it must have a target audience though as BT seem to advertise it a lot.

Sky insiders has told me.

-Usage amnesty for first 6 months (Media Boy HQ knows why).

Mr Banana 09-12-2014 13:35

Re: New Sky Fibre product
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by bubblegun (Post 35745764)
It's called Sky Fibre - note the Not Unlimited!

It has a 25Gb usage cap and is £10 per month, 18 month contract and £50 setup although setup is reduced to £30 at launch.

Speed is up to 40 Mbit with up to 9.5 Mbit upload.

Unlike BT, but in common will all previous Sky broadband products, your on-demand usage will count towards this cap.

There'll be press release along in a bit (later today).

(I have cross-posted this on Digital Spy)

Bit of a strange cap, when the average uk usage is 58GB per month?

However, there must be a market for it as Sky generally tend to be in touch with what's important to consumers

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/08/ofcom-uk-broadband/

qasdfdsaq 09-12-2014 13:56

Re: New Sky Fibre product
 
You can use it, without needing to use large amounts of it. BT had two different capped (40GB IIRC) fibre products at launch.

A lot of people, possibly even the majority, still use less than 40GB. The mean average is skewed by a small proportion of very heavy users.


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