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.
Kelsey Brookes
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 11:14 AMI 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.
Christian
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 2:25 PMI 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.
Andrew
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 1:00 PMIsn’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!
Mitchell Sheldrick
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 1:17 PMthis information has been available since the “Foxtel Next Generation” Media event… old news.
anthony
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:46 AMi 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
DarkWolfhound
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 5:51 PM…..um….Internet.
LOL
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 3:10 AMIm on the highest package and it went up $4…
What number do i call to cancel!!!!
JJ
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 10:16 AMIs anyone else finding that not only do they not get the new Foxtel channels, they no longer get +2 channels. This to me is a clear breach of contract – new satellite my @r$e, I get less channels now than ever. Cancelling – YES!
MOHAMMED A.
Friday, April 15, 2011 at 11:45 AMI JUST DON’T GET IT, WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET FOXTEL INSTALLED IN PERTH, EVERY TIME I BEEN TEMPTED BY NEW SPECIAL IN TV I BEEN TURNED DOWN BY SO CALLED REPRESENTATIVE, LAST TIME I BEEN TOLD THAT I LIVE IN A BUILDING TOO HIGH IN SECOND FLOOR IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO INSTALLED FOXTEL, I WISH THERE WAS LESS MONOPOLY