Foxtel unveils ‘triple play’ bundle as streaming and subscriber competition heats up
Foxtel has unveiled its new ‘triple play’ bundling of TV, home phone and internet services in a single package in partnership with Telstra, as the subscription TV giant makes a play to widen its subscriber base.
The move comes as a number of new video streaming services have begun entering the market such as Stan and Fetch TV, as well as the highly anticipated entry of US streaming giant Netflix this year.
The move will see Foxtel customers able to use a single subscription for TV, broadband and home phone in partnership with Telstra, which owns 50 per cent of the cable company. News Corp owns the other fifty per cent.
Basic packages start at $90 per month for access to 43 channels, standard home phone and 50 gigabytes of broadband data, with 100GB, 200GB and 500GB plans priced at $95, $105 and $125 respectively. Customers can also scale up the number of channels they subscribe to.
Foxtel may inadvertently turn the NBN and Australia’s terrible broadband speeds into a major election issue with this. 😉
It’s a handicapped offering because the “broadband” is actually limited to “ADSL” unless you’re NBN ready (although you have to go digging into the website’s critical information doc to find that out…hopefully they mean ADSL2+). It’s an odd choice when you would give customers a better experience than ADSL), and the market is already flooded with cut-price ADSL competitiors offering noticeably better value (Exetel, TPG etc). Perhaps all this is just to keep Telstra’s copper wire coffers ringing for a bit longer?
http://www.foxtel.com.au/conte.....bundle.pdf
I would like to be connected to Foxtel( Entertainment,Sports, and Docos) but it seems almost impossible for an 83 year old to work his way through all the ” junk” available. Can someone help with the following requests:
1. Do Foxtel make connections to homes in Portland, Victoria 3305?
2 What would be the cost of the initial connection?
3. What would be the charge per month after we are connected?(( For the bundle I have mentioned above?
4 . Can payments be made via direct debit to my Visa card?
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Please don’t refer this request overseas.
Sincerely, Graeme L Anson.
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