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BT Sport renewal
Not sure if this has a thread elsewhere, could not see one,
Had a text from BT today saying that my sub to BT Sprt expires on July 15th, if I wnat to contine getting the channel I must sign up with BT for another year, if I don't then it will be £6.75 for SD plus and extra charge for HD, as I don'y wish to be locked in for a year, and don't watch that much on BT Sport, I will not bother, just wondering how many more now the year is up, will do the same ?
Had a text from BT today saying that my sub to BT Sprt expires on July 15th, if I wnat to contine getting the channel I must sign up with BT for another year, if I don't then it will be £6.75 for SD plus and extra charge for HD, as I don'y wish to be locked in for a year, and don't watch that much on BT Sport, I will not bother, just wondering how many more now the year is up, will do the same ?
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I guess it there way of trying to keep customers from going over to Sky broadband with their recent 2 years free offer. The problem I see with that offer is people will take it up, but next year when Sky loses Champions League football, there will be a load of people who have taken up the 2 year offer to then have to pay for BT Sports to carry on getting Champions League football.
It is free BB for 2 years, not a 2 year contract, not sure why people think you have to stay for the whole 2 years.
I believe the small print stated it is an 18 month contract for EXISTING broadband customers, and a 12 month contract for NEW broadband customers, so, sign up now, and they can still leave in a year, those who already have it would probably have stayed anyway, so 18 month contract probably won't bother them.
From Sky website:
Offer available to Sky TV customers with Sky Sports. Sky Network areas only. £6.95 router delivery charge applies. New minimum term required for Sky Broadband Unlimited, calls and line rental - 12 months for new and 18 months for existing Sky Broadband customers.
And the other side is that if Sky win more EPL games or even the similar packages that they currently enjoy, (this so called competition) The price they will pay means that Skys subs will go up to
Its a lose / lose situation thank goodness for competition
wouldn't have to deal with BT directly then.
Still, they eventually made a similar deal with Virgin, so never say never!
BT would of course expect a reciprocal deal from Sky for the Sky Sports channels on their delivery platform............
They only made a deal with Virgin because there was no other option, unlike Sky, you can't add 3rd party channels.
You can have sports on a monthly basis any time. Its the entertainment packages you have to have for a year.
And BT Sport on a Sky box doesn't require any BB package nor any contract.
My text said to continue to get BT Sport free, (no mnetion of HD) via the Sky Platform I must renew by current BB sub for a further year, and by default sign up for another year for Line Rental.
Im not talking about getting it free.
Im talking about getting it as standard.
sorry !
No worries
Whichever ever way we lose.
Which is what I said " Its a lose / lose situation thank goodness for competition " ;-)
As with most things BT they don't make things clear on their site.
I phoned back again today (0800-802002) and although I couldn't get the HD free, they knocked down my broadband and calls by £4....so I'm a £1 up.
I think it made a difference that I was one of the early subscribers to BT Sports HD. Last year????
I think you'll find that it's the T&C's you agreed to when you first signed up that are relevant, not what they are offering now.
I believe it said BT Sport free for a year if you take out BT Broadband, so they have not changed anything they have already said to you, and if you signed up a year ago, your free sport will be coming to an end, and i expect they would have told you at the time it would then be chargeable.
I got an email from them saying containing this.
"Keep getting BT Sport for free
You don't need to do anything now because your broadband is still in contract. We'll let you know nearer the time when you need to renew it, so you can keep getting our three sports channels for free."
I am on an 18 month BT broadband contract which ends at Christmas - do I keep my BT sport free until then (i.e. December) automatically or must I sign up for another BT broadband contract for a further year from now (i.e. ending June 2015).
I assume I start paying for BT Sport from 1 August if I do nothing - but its not clear at all. My contract ends in December - so implying I get free BT sport while in contract is rather misleading?!
The bit in bold you posted says you need to do nothing,I take it you will get free BT sports until your contract ends in Dec and BT will contact you just before so you can renew your BB and get free Sports
I did get an Email from BT saying I would get free BT sports in SD this year unless I want to pay extra for the HD version,I declined
I took out an 18 month contact around Aug 2013 so I am mid way through my contract and no mention of renewing in my Email
Might call them up nearer to when my contract expires and see what they can do in terms of the price. The stupid thing is that I can't renew for a future date, so I can't sort it all out early. >_>
Reckon you will be ok until the contract expires, Christmas, then you will have to agree to stay for another 12 months to get t 'free' or pay £7 (almost) a month, or £10 with HD