MSE News: BT Sport: is its 'free' offer any good?

[Deleted User]

decfin wrote: »

BT Sport tell me today that to continue that service I will have to pay 2 x £15 activation fees and £15 per month for each box.

A total rip-off. They wont be getting my money.

They don't really want you to subscribe this way, they'd rather you switched to their broadband and became a customer of theirs rather than Sky and your current internet supplier.

[Deleted User]

eljmayes wrote: »

The value of BT Sport

Very debatable, that "value".

VisionMan

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Very debatable, that "value".

A bit like the word "Free".

Its not really free (is anything ever?). It's 'inclusive'. Its still a good offer though.

[Deleted User]

VisionMan wrote: »

Its still a good offer though.

Again, debatable.;)

VisionMan

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Again, debatable.;)

In your opinion.

[Deleted User]

VisionMan wrote: »

In your opinion.

No, it's not my opinion that we can debate the value of BT Sports and whether it's a "good" offer, it's a fact that we can debate this!:p

VisionMan

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

No, it's not my opinion that we can debate the value of BT Sports and whether it's a "good" offer, it's a fact that we can debate this!:p

Actually, concerning BT Sport there is no debate. Its free for current BT users like me.

But a cost attached for new users.

But its the value of their other offerings your actually questioning, isn't it.

[Deleted User]

VisionMan wrote: »

But its the value of their other offerings your actually questioning, isn't it.

Yeah, I'm not exactly impressed with them to be honest.

(I'll actually never do any business with BT again, they charged me £600 for a quarterly telephone bill in the early 1990's for calls to Scotland from England. Rip off doesn't come into it.)

decfin

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

They don't really want you to subscribe this way, they'd rather you switched to their broadband and became a customer of theirs rather than Sky and your current internet supplier.

I know they want people to switch but I have no intention of changing from Sky and my current ISP. BT had the chance to retain me as customer by subscribing to BT Sports/ESPN by offering a similar package to Sky. I would have been prepared to pay £15 a month for the service to both boxes, but to treble my current cost and pay 2 x activation fees is absurd. So, no, I will not be becoming a BT customer.

poppasmurf_bewdley

I signed up for BT Sport HD via Sky yesterday, for free.

I have BT Broadband at a discount rate of £10.65 instead of £16, which was shortly to expire. BT have renewed that for a further 12 months, and given me the Sports channels and HD via Sky without charge.

I'm happy with that.