Sky is to offer all it’s Sky broadband customers a free broadband speed upgrade to 20Mb from 1st June.
The move will also co-incide with Sky streamlining it’s broadband offers to just 2 options, either the Everyday Lite which is free to Sky TV customers who also have Sky Talk, or £5 if it is a customer who only takes the broadband but is capped at 2GB of data transfer per month or the Unlimited plan which costs an extra £7.50 per month but does not have any restrictions in place and is supposedly fully unlimited with no traffic management or fair use policy’s.
The 20Mb broadband will be using ADSL2+ technology and like with current standard ADSL the broadband speed you actually receive will depend on your distance from the telephone exchange and the quality of the line.
Both the broadband deals are available on a 12 month contract.
New subscribers online can currently also receive a free £25 M&S voucher of they sign up to a Sky TV package online at www.sky.com.
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New subscribers to Sky TV will receive a £50 M&S voucher in a short term offer if they join Sky online.
The offer is available to new Sky TV subscribers (sky.com) or those who take out a Sky TV bundle with broadband and or telephone.
Sky have a regular offer of a £25 M&S voucher available to new subscribers but until the 25th March 2010 this has been doubled to an impressive £50.
Sky have recently started making every new sky box they send out a Sky+HD box ready for all the HD channels that are available and will become available.
The headline offer of a triple play service of Sky Broadband, TV and calls can be taken for just £18 per month. This deal includes a free standard set up, £49 for a SKY+HD box (if the HD pack is not taken), free broadband that offers up to 2Mb broadband speeds and a 2GB monthly usage, plus calls (evening and weekend landline calls) and a free £50 M&S voucher.
To receive the Sky+ HD box free customers need to sign up for the HD pack which costs £10 per month and will make available currently 37 HD channels, so combined with the cheapest deal customers could have Sky HD package for £28 per month,
New subscribers need to sign up online at www.sky.com by the 25th March and activate their viewing card by 25th April 2010 to receive their free £50 M&S voucher.
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Sky Broadband have released their 2009 Q2 results which shows that they are the fastest growing broadband and home phone service provider in the UK.
In the 3 months to the end of June Sky broadband added 118,000 new broadband customers to it’s service which has taken their total broadband subscriber base to 2.2 million.
Although there has been a decline in the number of new broadband subscribers in the last 2 quarters (Q1 2009 – 130,000 new broadband customers and Q4 2008 – 163,000 new broadband customers) this is probably hardly surprising for 2 reasons, the first being that the recession will mean many are unable to afford the extra cost involved and the second is that most in the UK who actually want broadband already have it.
Despite the new additions Sky’s broadband and telephony operating loss was £129 million for the year to the end of June 2009 but with more Sky broadband customers getting moved onto their own unbundled network Sky are hoping to make a profit on their telephony very soon despite a reduced loss in 2009/2010.
Sky have 16% of it’s customers now take up triple play services from Sky with broadband, telephone and TV which is a 5% increase from June 2008.
The full Sky press release of their figure can be viewed here
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