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Sky Offer Free Sky+ Box & £50 M&S Vouchers
New customers joining Sky TV (sky.com/freesky+) online can now get a free Sky+ box and a £50 Marks & Spencer voucher.
In order to qualify, new customers must order online any Sky digital TV package starting from just £17.50 a month.
For £17.50 a month, customers can choose from one of 5 Sky TV entertainment packs including Variety, Knowledge, Style and Culture, News and Events or Music and Kids.
Each pack contains up to 68 digital TV channels, whilst there’s also more than 200 free to air channels to watch too.
Customers can also add free Sky Broadband (up to 2Mbps speeds) & free Sky Talk, providing free evening & weekend phone calls to UK landlines, to their online order.
Premium TV channels like Sky Sports 1,2 & 3 and Sky Movies can also be added.
Readers interested in the free Sky+ box offer with the £50 M&S vouchers can find out more at the sky.com/freesky+ website.
Sky Offer FREE HD Box At Sky.com/freehd
Sky (sky.com/freehd) has launched a free Sky+HD box and free HD pack offer for both new and existing Sky TV customers.
As part of this years Summer offer, the pay TV and broadband company is also offering new customers a free £25 Marks & Spencer voucher when they order Sky TV with HD online.
New customers can also qualify for 6 months half price on Sky’s Entertainment Extra TV package which means that from just £12.50 a month for the first 3 months (and from £22.75 per month after), new customers can get the free Sky+ HD box, free standard set-up, 3 months free HD with up to 60 HD channels, plus Sky TV Extra.
Sky Broadband, together with inclusive evening and weekend phone calls to UK landlines, is also included in the monthly prices shown above.
Existing Sky TV customers can upgrade to Sky TV with HD for free for the first 3 months and then pay an additional £10 a month for access to Sky’s 60 HD channels. A free Sky+ HD box is also provided.
Further information on Sky’s free HD offer for new and existing customers can be found at the sky.com/freehd website.
BSkyB (Sky) Tops 2.3 Million Broadband Customers
BSkyB (sky.com) has topped 2.3 million broadband customers following the announcement of its most recent quartely results.
The results which date up until 30th September show that that Sky has added over 100,000 new broadband customers in the quarter.
This is still, however, a slight downturn in comparison to the same period last year where the company added 164,000 new customers to its broadband base.
In a statement, BSkyB said: “We are making good progress on improving the returns on our investment in broadband and telephony. Higher penetration of telephony products, combined with a continued focus on cost efficiency, saw operating losses for the quarter almost halve year on year to £19 million”.
The statement continued: “This was despite the costs associated with migrating existing customers from partial to full unbundling. At 30th September we had enabled over 70% of our exchanges and had more than 150,000 fully unbundled customers”.
BSkyB’s total broadband base now stands at 2,303,000, up from 2,203,000 in the second quarter.
Part of the increase in Sky’s broadband customer base has been due to the success of its bundled TV, broadband and telephone packages which are now taken by 17% of Sky’s 9.54 million pay TV customers.
Further information on Sky’s broadband, TV and phone packages can be found at the sky.com website or our Sky Broadband, TV & Phone review.
BSkyB In New Customer Growth Despite Recession
BSkyB has added 80,000 new TV customers in the three months to the end of March, despite the recession.
The success of Sky+HD together with Sky’s breadth of content and value pricing were intrumental in the company acquiring new customers.
The figures also easily beat analysts forecasts of 50,000 to 60,000 new customers in the first quarter of the year.
Sky is now connected in 9.3 million UK homes, with 15% of households taking Sky TV, Sky Broadband and Sky Talk.
Despite the great news for the company, evidence shows that its growth of broadband customers slowed. Around 229,000 customers took Sky Broadband in Q1 2008, compared to only around 130,000 in Q1 2009 – leaving Sky with just over 2 million broadband customers.
There has been speculation that BSkyB were going to acquire its rival Tiscali. However, talks broke down earlier in the year and Jeremy Darroch, Sky’s Chief Executive, commented in a conference call, “We don’t sit here feeling a need to make any acquisitions. If opportunities come up that we feel would accelerate our pathway, we would consider them.”
In a statement he also said: “We have made a strong start to calendar 2009. In difficult times customers are making careful choices and responding to the combination of quality and value that we offer. Looking ahead… we expect conditions to remain challenging.”
Sky Offer Free Phone Line Rental At Sky.com
Leading digital TV provider Sky is now offering free phone line rental for a year at Sky.com for new customers joining Sky TV with a Sky+HD box and HD pack.
Sky’s phone line also comes with an award winning free calls package (Sky Talk) that includes free evening & weekend UK landline phone calls. There’s also no need to change your BT phone number when you switch to Sky.
New customers can join Sky TV with the HD pack from just £26.25 a month. The Sky+HD box costs a one off £49 when ordered online (£199 when ordered by phone) with free standard installation included.
Sky+HD brings you impressive high definition TV (up to 4x picture detail and superb surround sound) with all the features of Sky+ (pause, rewind & record live TV). You’ll also have access to the UK’s widest range of HD channels.
Free wireless Sky Broadband is also available with Sky Talk and provides up to 2Mb download speeds, 24/7 technical support and a free wireless router.
Sky’s free phone line rental offer at Sky.com provides a saving of up to £150 a year compared to BT line rental. It is available to order online only at Sky.com until the 14th May 2009.
Sky+HD Box £49 Offer At Sky.com/HD Upgrade
The impressive Sky+HD box is now available to order online for just £49 at sky.com/hd. This represents a saving of £150 compared to the £199 price quoted when phoning Sky.
If ordered online, customers will also get the Sky HD pack free for one month (usual price is £9.75 a month). The Sky HD pack has 31 HD channels, including 3 Sky Sports HD channels and 12 Sky Movies HD channels.
There’s also free set up with the £49 Sky+HD box, as opposed to the £30 and £60 set up costs charged if you order either the Sky+ box or the standard Sky box.
The £49 deal is available to new customers and those existing Sky customers who upgrade their Sky box to a Sky+HD box and recontract for another 12 months.
With the Sky+HD box you can experience the wonder of Sky+ (the ability to record, rewind & pause live TV) in high definition for less.
There’s up to four times more detail and much more vibrant colour compared to normal TV, plus superb quality Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
There’s also the widest range of HD channels in the UK – with 31 channels to watch. You can enjoy everything from movies and sport, to arts, drama and documentaries, all in stunning high definition.
Please go to the sky.com/hd website for more information and to order your Sky+HD box online for just £49.
Free broadband & free offpeak phone calls are also included – with the basic Sky TV package starting from just £16.50 a month.
Alternatively, you can read our full review of Sky Broadband, TV & Phone packages here.
