Sorting out my dads sky bill after my grandparents went to a rest home revealed an $42 monthly "multi-box" fee. Sky hadn't relied on a dish for a while at this point, and required a separate box for each TV despite having an android app that functionally operated identically. This also disregarded if boxes were in the same house, unlike Netflix's recent changes. I know they were aware of this fee as they increased it alongside the other packages
Ah yes the packages. They have managed to split channels down an arbitrary line that excluded some of the most requested channels into separate packages. I had a specific argument with my Dad about package price when he wanted a singular channel and could only get it by increasing the price of his monthly subscription by $28. Before we had removed the multi-box fee, his bill had nearly been $150 dollars per month. A large chunk of this was the sports live streaming.
Sports live streaming was an especially sore point, as the list of options was not a list, but singular. Sky TV has held an iron grip on sports live streaming for as long as I remember, to the point that not even the countries second largest ISP could compete. They attempted and shut down their competing service within a year. The price for a generous Sky Sports package? An additional $42 per month.
I could rant about this for hours. Not even mentioning the biased news broadcasting, hours of pricing deciphering, and still being stuck to a cable TV programming special after all that.
