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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
Monthly fees are for the service. So a higher monthly fee would be better then? a £10 extra monthly fee for TiVo.
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The monthly fee is for a cable tv service which includes rental and "free" repairs of equipment. When did it become the norm that companies started charging for the "luxury" of being able to record tv? Oh yeah, when Sky started it...all their fault!
Listen to your own ceo in the investor presentations, next one on Thursday. He frequently makes reference to equipment costs and how the cost is clawed back via monthly rental charges, including "telephone line" rental, a charge of course which is nothing at all to with telephones.
As a VM spokesman recently said to paidContent:uk "we’re changing the terminology - we’re calling it an
upfront rental fee.”
All well and good as it's rental, vm get the box back at the end of the rental period. But as its rental when does the customer get the "upfront rental fee" back? The answer of course, is that don't. So it ain't rental, it's a purchase and a purchase for VM using a customer's money.