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How long will SKY last for????

SKY currently seems to be the top of the range company with the most customers. Now that SKY has purchased Easynet, BT may well stop helping SKY recieve customers and since that SKY and BT are seperate companies, rentals and subcriptions are not combined like Cable providers and means that SKY and BT users will end up paying an extra £20 than they would with Cable companies. In fact, Wight Cable has a no line rental telephone package available with the 3-2-1 telephone plan. SKY customers also have to maintain their SKY boxes themselves and pay for any repairs, unlike Telewest and NTL who still own the box and will repair the box for you at no extra cost unless the damage is your fault.

SKY customers will eventually get fed up and move over to Cable or analogue terrestrial which is not what the goverment wants!

Freeview and top-up-tv has poor reception and customers have to buy the box and and new aerials.

Cable will probably remain the UK's favourite and when NTL and Telewest finally become one, the cable company may want to expand it's network to streets which are not currently covered.

Clacton-on-sea and Harwich on the south east Anglia coast in Essex is where Rediffusion Cable Vision was based and there is no cable operator their at all! The nearest is NTL (East coast cable Ltd) which covers Colchester, since these are large towns, why is that there is no cable service available their. BT have only recently launched it's broadband service in that area. I reckon it would cost around £200 to £500 Million to cable these towns. Maybe Wight Cable might think of something! Or a new cable company which will work with BT (Cable company providing: Cable TV,interactive services and BT providing: Telephone and Broadband services.)

Most of the rediffusion equipment and cabling still survives in a terrible state, in the small part of Clacton called Jaywick, Jaywick is independent from Essex County Council and local council which is why the equipment has never been ripped out as they don't want to spend money. The cabinets on the streets are vandalised with cables hanging out, some housing still has the indoor switches ect....

SKY will be another failure in a few years and hope they go into recievership.