Originally Posted by mitchey316:
“Thanks. Looks like BT have got the rights as they are showing an event on Thursd ay night.”
It appears in ireland we have a better deal to receive BT Sport.
If you sign up to Eir Fibre Broadband you get the Eir Sport pack that includes BT Sport for free for the first 18months. It could be used through Irish Sky TV boxes or through the eir sport app
Irish Terrestrial TV has live champions league football on tuesdays/wednesdays for the next 2 years of the present contract
English Premiership live Rugby would not appeal to irish audiences but European Cup Rugby would appeal to them .
The 42 live EPL games from BT Sport would appeal to irish audiences
This move by Eir will increase its irish broadband subsscribers.
I have Sky Fibre Broadband but I will be moving to eir fibre broadband in September 2016.
Sky Fibre Broadband runs its irish broadband under the eir system. In theory, every Sky Broadband subscriber should move to eir when their 12months contract ends.
Sky Ireland could counter this eir sport move by offering half price Sky Sport to its sky fibre broadband subscribers. If they don't Sky Fibre Broadband in ireland should lose most of their subscribers to eir.