Foxtel announces first nbn services
Foxtel has announced the introduction of its first services for customers of the new nbn network.
The announcement:
Foxtel today announced that it has begun offering services on the nbn™ network to Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) serviceable customers+. The move marks Foxtel’s initial push to offer nbn™ services to new and current subscribers, which will accelerate in the coming months.
nbn™ services will strengthen Foxtel’s commitment to deliver high quality, reliable streaming of its internet delivered services across iQ3, Foxtel Go, Foxtel’s on demand programming and other popular video steaming, social media and gaming applications.
So what about those subscribers who are on a NBN FTTN service??
What is the point? Foxtel Go is an SD only service.
The nbn™ services has a high quality, and reliable streaming in order to strengthen commitment to deliver . That’s great ! By the way, Thanks Fox !
First thoughts are:
1.Low speed tiers.
2. Expensive.
Foxtel needs to stop thinking it can price a freemium product at a premium price.
Most consumers have $100 total in mind for Internet and Streaming.
$59 unlimited broadband (avg ADSL 2+ speed 12/1) and Netflix leaves $30 for Foxtel currently. Let alone Spotify and Apple Radio and Stan.
Meanwhile overseas pirates are live streaming sports like F1, UFC, Soccer in crystal clear 6k Kbps streams that look amazing. It’s as easy as copy and pasting a hash link into a program.
Foxtel needs to almost half it’s NBN prices and reduce the number of “add ons” to get any serious traction.
Want better:
* speed; or
* quota; or
* channels; or
* channel quality; or
Then pay more…. that just doesn’t work in 2016.