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Originally Posted by denphone
Sky passing on some savings to their customers would be like turkeys suddenly voting for Christmas Harry.
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I agree with you Den, but the onus
should be on them to pass on the savings.
I will leave my comments at that on this thread
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Originally Posted by alwaysabear
If the customer chooses to pay the higher prices. Football need to be careful or they risk ruining the goose that laid the golden egg.
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I tried to use that argument on the BT/Sky/ESPN thread. It did not work very well
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Originally Posted by spankysmagicpian
Quick calc - BT Have 4.6m customers at the moment. multiply that by £15 a month for the BB offer they had on and that works out at £828m a year income from BB. Add in the Line rental which is required and that's £1.7b a year income so if you look at the latter, if they stopped everyone leaving with free BT Sport, they are quids in over three years.
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Yup, it has been very shrewd move by BT. They announced six month pre-tax profits £948 million. Not bad for a company giving away free premium sports content!
I am sure they will continue to offer BT sports free for many years to come as well.