Price Rise in September

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by Sam B

<snip>Sky have increased their prices to both their customers and to ntl twice this year

My Sky bill hasn't gone up for donkeys- it's going to up to 41 quid in September, but that's the first time for about 18 months.

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by bigitup_j

at least the 6p call plan, now 5p call plan is going down in price. i'll be getting that now

It would not surprise me if everybody on the 321 plan get it "automatically" just like BT have done with their basic customers.

[seaneeboy]

Originally Posted by Nugget

My Sky bill hasn't gone up for donkeys- it's going to up to 41 quid in September, but that's the first time for about 18 months.

I believe NTL "Absorbed" the price increase for about 6-8 months... it's quite possible it's only the premium channels going up, in chich case the base/family pack subscribers like meself will be ok...

[wade vi]

Originally Posted by Nugget

My Sky bill hasn't gone up for donkeys- it's going to up to 41 quid in September, but that's the first time for about 18 months.

Sky Digital prices have increased every year for the past few years and twice this year.

Sky Digital Family pack + Sky Sports & Movies

2001 - £34
2002 - £37
2003 - £38
2004 - £40
2004 - £41

Sky box office movies have also gradually increased from £2.99 a film to £3.50 and then £3.75 (£4.75 if digibox is not connected to phone line)

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by seaneeboy

I believe NTL "Absorbed" the price increase for about 6-8 months... it's quite possible it's only the premium channels going up, in chich case the base/family pack subscribers like meself will be ok...

Sorry matey, I could have worded that better - I'm actually on Sky (had loads of problems with NTL digital, so switched) so, if Sky had put there prices up direct to customers, I should have had a rise (especially 'cos I have the full package), but it hasn't done for a while

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by wade vi

Sky Digital prices have increased every year for the past few years and twice this year.

Sky Digital Family pack + Sky Sports & Movies

2001 - £34
2002 - £37
2003 - £38
2004 - £40
2004 - £41

Sky box office movies have also gradually increased from £2.99 a film to £3.50 and then £3.75 (£4.75 if digibox is not connected to phone line)

I've had Sky for about 3 years so, judging by this, I should have had bills that started at £34 - however, I started at £37, went up to £39 and am now going up to £41. This means that, apparently, I was paying too much to start off woth, and have been paying too little this year

[seaneeboy]

Interesting nugget, thanks for the clarification...

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by seaneeboy

I believe NTL "Absorbed" the price increase for about 6-8 months... it's quite possible it's only the premium channels going up, in chich case the base/family pack subscribers like meself will be ok...

Unless NTL decide to scrap the basic 321 plan and move everybody to the 5p plan, like BT did, which would mean everybody would have to pay £1 more.

[IanUK]

This is really annoying, 2 price increases in one year !!

The 1mb broadband is already very overpriced compared to the competition

Perhaps its to fund their free xbox offer with all new 600k & 1mb subscribers..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2207229.stm

Charming !

Ian

[bigitup_j]

Originally Posted by bob_builder

Unless NTL decide to scrap the basic 321 plan and move everybody to the 5p plan, like BT did, which would mean everybody would have to pay £1 more.

i don't think ntl will because they've been advertising that they have the cheapest line rental in the UK. so it would be a bit silly to increase the price, to make one of the most expensive.

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by bigitup_j

i don't think ntl will because they've been advertising that they have the cheapest line rental in the UK. so it would be a bit silly to increase the price, to make one of the most expensive.

Yes but they could increase the price by £1 and it would still be the cheapest line rental (same as BT).

[Bob]

Originally Posted by Sam B

Sky have increased their prices to both their customers and to ntl twice this year. They may not have done that before, but they have now.

Sam

It was all to do with Sky wanting to get their revenue per customer upto a certain level before the year was out so they were only going to achieve this by putting the prices up. They have said that there will be no price rises in January but they wouldn't rule out increases later in 2005

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by Bob

It was all to do with Sky wanting to get their revenue per customer upto a certain level before the year was out so they were only going to achieve this by putting the prices up.

and selling SKY+ which costs an extra £10 a month or gives people an incentive to upgrade to premium channels.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

and selling SKY+ which costs an extra £10 a month or gives people an incentive to upgrade to premium channels.

I don't pay any extra for my Sky + subscription...

[poolking]

Neil,

I think you may have misread etc's post, I think he is taking into account the fact that if you subscribe to the premium channels that the £10 fee is waived.