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Sky’s price rise is good for consumers
This might be an unpopular opinion, but it’s healthy for consumers that Sky is sticking with percentage price increases, even if 6.2 per cent will be too high for many (Issue 704, page 8). Its policy contrasts with providers who are obeying Ofcom’s rules to implement rises in ‘pounds and pence’, which means customers now have more choice.
If you want the security of a fixedprice increase then you can move to BT, TalkTalk, Virgin and others. But if you think that leads to bigger increases than when rises were linked to inflation, you can take a punt with Sky’s approach. You can then cancel within 30 days if you don’t like it.
One thing’s for sure: the cost of TV and broadband will continue to rise above inflation simply because we’re all so hooked on streaming and social media. We need this stuff, and providers know they can charge more and more.
Jonathan Edge
I quit Netflix because there’s nothing to watch
It’s not the recent Netflix price rise that prompted me to quit the service (Issue 704, page 9), but the fact that the ratio of bad shows to good is something like 1:100. It’s so hard to find anything worth watching – a real case of quantity over quality. There’s nothing that made TV worth watching in the 1970s and 1980s, like sitcoms, chat shows, quiz shows and light entertainment.