Sky Multiroom from another house?

micky007

Hi,

I used to live in a house share property and i paid the landlord to get Sky Multi-room installed in my room. I've recently moved out and got my own place with my partner and the new house has a dish already installed on the house. I took my sky box and sky card from the house share as i paid for the box and connected it to the dish in the new house so i could watch freeview. But then i noticed i still had all the Sky channels as i still had my card placed in the sky box. Now i have a feeling the sky card will be cancelled at the end of the month (if the landlord cancelled it when i gave him my notice).

Now my parents have been a sky customers for a number of years and have Sky Multi-room in 3 of their rooms. Now i have this question, if i took the sky box and card from my parents house and placed it in my house would it work? I understand sky multi-room boxes need to be connected to a telephone line for a few months, they have had sky multi-room for a long time so they dont need their boxes connected to a phone line anymore.

If it wouldnt work then how do i have sky in my new house with the box and card i took from where i moved from?

Plus would there be any way of getting caught as i understand people do this in spain dont they to get british tv?

macman

With a Multiroom sub , all the boxes must be permanently connected to an active landline. If they aren't, the box will fail the callbacks and you will be billed for a full separate subscription. If it's connected to a different number to that registered for the Multiroom sub, then it will also fail, as the different number will be detected. The system is designed to prevent the fraud that you are suggesting.
PS: without a sub you aren't watching Freeview, you are watching Freesat from Sky. Freeview s a terrestial service via an aerial.
If you are content with !!!!!!, then you can use it just as you are at present, you will continue to get all the !!!!!! channels after your sub ends, as your card becomes an !!!!!! card. If you want the subscription channels, then you need to take out a Sky sub.
What people do abroad is register at a UK address for a subscription service and then use it outsde the UK in breach of contract, or just use !!!!!! for no charge. Nothing to do with Multiroom.

micky007

Hey Macman.

Thanks for your response, Actually thinking about it I'm not sure what your saying is true. When i got Sky Multiroom installed at my previous address the sky multiroom box was only connected to a telephone line for 3 months, after 3 months the landlord disconnected the telephone line so that i couldnt make any charges on the phone line. I had Sky Multiroom for 1yr 1 month and the box was only conncted to a phone line for just 3 of those months. Had no problems whle using the box, just the only thing i couldn't do was watch box office films etc... as it requires a phone line be connected.

Cornucopia

micky007 wrote: »

If it wouldnt work then how do i have sky in my new house with the box and card i took from where i moved from?

Phone up Sky and ask?

DevCoder

The Terms and Conditions state

Other important points about your Multiroom Subscription
• Each Multiroom subscription you take out can only be viewed at the same Address as your first Sky digital subscription.
• The Box used to receive your first Sky digital subscription must always be connected to a fixed and operational telephone line while any Multiroom subscription is in place. All the Boxes used to receive your Multiroom subscription(s) must also be connected to this line and number and you must let us collect information through this line, including your telephone number (caller line identification or CLI).

lee111s

Load of rubbish. We had 2 multiroom (3 boxes in total) at my parents and never once in 2 years were any of the boxes connected to a phone line. Never had a phone call off them and never had an issue when the engineer installed them.

My mate is an installation engineer for them and said it's only tp try and get more people using box office, all checks to the box can be done OTA.

[Deleted User]

lee111s wrote: »

Load of rubbish.

Tell that to the people who have received double bills because their multi-room subscription wasn't connected to the same fixed and operational landline.
Sky aren't likely to allow anyone to simply duplicate a subscription without any check on whether it is in a household which actually pays for it.

I'd say you were just lucky that Sky apparently never discovered your deception.

piglet74

It is just luck if you were not caught.

A number of years I had multi room, and then long after the year had passed I got rid of my land line, a few months later I got a letter from sky saying they were going to start charging me for 2 subscriptions as my boxes were not attached to an active phone line, and true to their word.. They did... Not long after.. I cancelled it altogether.

lammy82

lee111s wrote: »

all checks to the box can be done OTA.

They can't check the physical location of a box OTA. This could be only be done by having the box dial up Sky and making sure the call comes from the phone number it's supposed to.

HappyMJ

Just keep the card and box for as long as you can. The bill payer will get a warning and they won't back bill. Once it's cancelled then resubscribe....going through Quidco or similar to maximize the deal.

Cornucopia

Could MSE provide a list of organisations that it is considered acceptable to defraud?

Would make life simpler for all.