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Sky Broadband

  • 03-03-2010 3:30pm
    #1
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭


    Any know if Sky are planning on entering the irish market for broadband? Sure would be useful. Not only would you not have to deal with NTL but you could probably get it anywhere Sky Digital TV was available.


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  • #2
    Shane O' Malley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Shane O' Malley


    Thats not how Sky Broadband works in the UK. They are only another DSL provider.

    Nothing to do with your Sat Dish.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    From what I seen online (cant remember where) few people in UK can get high speed from Sky as Sky only have a few exchange set up??


  • #4
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    They are not likely to enter our broadband market anytime soon. They dont need to, they are creaming it as it is without buying a provider and giving away free basic or discounted broadband.


  • #5
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Deleted User wrote: »
    From what I seen online (cant remember where) few people in UK can get high speed from Sky as Sky only have a few exchange set up??

    Sky in the UK supply ADSL Broadband via BT Wholesale resold ADSL, ADSL Max and ADSL2+, they also supply DSL via LLU or unbundled exchanges which offers ADSL Max and ADSL2+.

    They have about 1,190 LLU enabled exchange in the UK which is a reasonable amount but not that much when you compare them to TalkTalk who have approx 4,500+ unbundled exchanges.

    None the less Sky's number of exchanges is pretty good when compared to other LLU providers such as O2 who have about 1,200 unbundled.

    To be honest the limitations of getting upto 24MB from Sky are no different to getting it from BT or TalkTalk or whoever.

    As for Sky entering the Irish market, had LLU prices dropped like they did this year and had it happened 10 years ago then I would have said yes.

    However given the small market in Ireland I'd imagine "if" Sky ever did enter the market they'd do so by buying an existing provider rather then start from nothing (thats what they did in the UK when they bought easynet).

    "If" Sky did launch an LLU service then this would likely only benefit people in large towns and citys in the same way as any existing LLU provider does.

    As such a service would likely be ADSL it would not be available anywhere you can get Sky via sat dish as the OP seems to mistakenly believe....this is certainly not who they operate in the UK.


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