Sky and Spain

skylight

Dad lives in Spain with a Sky box but does not pay a subscription so only gets freeview channels.

We have Sky+ here in Berkshire. My OH seems to think that if we paid for Sky Multiroom and sent Dad the card that came with it rather than using it ourselves, he could watch whatever on Sky and we pay the additional subscription for him (cos it works out at about £10pm rather than full subscription for Dad).

It can't be that easy, surely?

planemad

Its against the multiroom contract to do this.
Also with multiroom both boxes MUST be fitted to a operating phone line where SKY ping the boxes at certain periods if one does not respond to the ping from a uk phone line then you get a letter telling you to sort the problems out after another ping you will be cut off.

Inactive

Agreed, Sky are very strict about the Multiroom Contracts for obvious reasons, read their T&C's.

Cat695

send him your card and keep the multiroom one!! i used sky in germany for years WITHOUT ever getting a letter saying i'm not connected to a phone line...........and i know MANY people that did (trust me when you only get one english channel sky was a god send)

as long as you pay they won't care

G47

Cat695 wrote: »

send him your card and keep the multiroom one!! i used sky in germany for years WITHOUT ever getting a letter saying i'm not connected to a phone line...........and i know MANY people that did (trust me when you only get one english channel sky was a god send)

as long as you pay they won't care

but you cant guarantee if sky would call though

Belnahua

Check out http://www.astra2d.com/. Particularly their forum and http://www.astra2d.com/sky-abroad.htm


They have some good advice.

superjaggybunnet

Lives in Spain with a skybox. LOL

Inactive

Cat695 wrote: »

send him your card and keep the multiroom one!! i used sky in germany for years WITHOUT ever getting a letter saying i'm not connected to a phone line...........and i know MANY people that did (trust me when you only get one english channel sky was a god send)

as long as you pay they won't care

Sorry, with Multiroom it isn't that simple, otherwise every ex pat in Spain would be doing it.

It is possible to have Sky Subscription channels in Spain, but it isn't as easy as some would think, and certainly not via the Multiroom route.

skylight

I know that we could buy a slingbox and connect him via his internet, buts its the large outlay I am not happy with.

I really didn't think that mulitroom would be that simple! As inactive stated, if it was then everyone would be doing it.

Ah well!

Belnahua

Funnily enough I was speaking to a friend last night, and he has multiroom.

He's received a huge bill from Sky; why? Well he went on holiday for 4 weeks, and turned the power off in his home. Sky said they could not raise a response from the multiroom boxes. Therefore the assumption was that he had removed them from the building and phonelines, and breached his T&Cs.

I see a long argument there.

But it does show SKY will call up multiroom boxes. I think the answer is for your father to take out a single sky subscription in your house in his name, then when the year's up, and the phone line is not needed any more (we pulled our single sky sub box from the phone line on day 366!), send the card and sky box to Spain?

Our single Sky box worked for 5 years without a phoneline, then we upgraded to Sky+, so back to a phone line!

Leopard

Belnahua wrote: »

Funnily enough I was speaking to a friend last night, and he has multiroom.

He's received a huge bill from Sky; why? Well he went on holiday for 4 weeks, and turned the power off in his home. Sky said they could not raise a response from the multiroom boxes. Therefore the assumption was that he had removed them from the building and phonelines, and breached his T&Cs.

I see a long argument there.

Yeah; that'd be Sky: you've given us an opportunity to assume, so we've seized it - here's a huge bill and if you don't pay it within 30 days we'll screw your credit record; now call us on our 0870 number and wait in a queue, paying 8p a minute, to sort it out.

I hate Sky.