You Didn’t Think Those New Foxtel Channels Would Be Free, Did You?
Last month, Foxtel announced that they were launching 30 new channels on the back of the Optus D3 satellite. What they didn’t mention was price. Now they have, and if you were crossing your fingers that they were going to just give you those bonus channels for free, you’re going to be a bit disappointed. Although it’s not all bad…
At a bare minimum, you’re looking at an increase of $2, because the starter package has gone up to $42 (from $40). Platinum subscriptions have added $4 from $106 to $110, while Platinum HD have gone from $131 to $135. The HD add-ons ($10 for HD Sport, $10 for HD Explore and $15 for both) have been consolidated into one package called HD, which is $16.
Aside from that though, all that’s really happened is all the packages have been renamed.
The HD package though, is slightly different for your $16, you get the HD channels that correlate with the other packages you subscribe to. So if you’re on basic, you’ll just get Discovery HD, Fox8 HD and National Geographic HD. If you also subscribe to the Sports channels, you’ll get the HD sports channels as well. Although it would reach a point fairly quickly when you’d just be better off with the Platinum HD package, I’m sure.
Finally, Foxtel have added some new iQ and iQ2 packages. Starting at $72 with an iQ (not iQ2) and ranging up to the $135 HD Platinum pack with an iQ2, each package offers a selection of channel packages and a DVR.
You can check out all the new package details here.
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I quit Foxtel the moment I got the letter informing me of the new details.
They do such a hard sell to keep you, but I no longer see the value in paying so much for so little.
I quote form my email:
” instead of the price increase your current package would have attracted, your package price will remain unchanged. ”
I have gotten no price increase, it would be from $62 to $72 on the new price scale.
Isn’t this info a bit old? The pricing was released last month – just after the media event.
And why all the focus on the price increases? It is just $2-$4 for some people anyway. Keep in mind that many people have been reporting online about the price DEcreases they will be receiving. I for one am calling Telstra today to get them to migrate me to the new packages so I can save $9 every month to get the same channels as before, plus the new ones from next month. Don’t forget that the big change is the introduction of the IQ Packs. The IQ is now free every month (was $10-15) and the price points are deliberately steering people away from the old-style packages and towards to IQ packs.
Finally, remember that if you do nothing you stay at the old price and get all the new channels for FREE!
this information has been available since the “Foxtel Next Generation” Media event… old news.
i just returned from being in the states for 5 months and australian pay tv is laughable. we pay 3-4 times as much for a quater of the channels.. let alone HD channels. we gota get some more compertition in our market
…..um….Internet.
Im on the highest package and it went up $4…
What number do i call to cancel!!!!