Before 1998, SKY was hardly heard of and Cable companies had a very large number of customers subscribing to just analogue TV with each customer spending up to £20 a month on services. However, telephone services from cable operators has always varied, at the moment, Telewest's phone service has many subscribers compared to 2002.
And why should cable disappear if SKY did?
The cable companies are not reliant on SKY or BT, I think BT and SKY are more reliant on the cable companies! BT has recently used NTL to supply online voice services for it's customers and SKY carries all the Flextech channels which is owned by Telewest.
In addition, Cable companies allow SKY premium channels to be carried through to their customers at an addition cost to the customer. Cable companies could drop these at anytime, I don't think that many customers do use the sky premium channels as they are too expensive. In 1998, Telewest reviewed SKY news, according to Telewest, viewing levels were considerably low compared to BBC News 24.
If SKY stopped carrying Flextech channels, then no one would subscribe as most other channels are just a load of crap!
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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy
i dont think cable tv would be a lot of use with out sky. or should i say, it would lose a lot of subscribers without sky being there
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