Foxtel to hike subscription prices
Foxtel has informed customers that a number of subscription package prices will be increasing, as the pay TV provider prepares for ballooning sports and licensing rights.
Starting from March 1, the price for the ‘Platinum’ and ‘Platinum with Netflix’ packages are increasing by “between $2 and $3 per month”. Customers were notified of this change on Wednesday afternoon.
Foxtel said the price hike “ensures we can continue to invest in the latest technology and deliver the best in entertainment and live sports” but ensures viewers there is “plenty to look forward to in 2025, with a lineup of global favourites and Foxtel originals”.
The live sports aspect is of key significance to Foxtel’s future, with the recent sale of the group to UK-based sports streaming platform, DAZN. CEO Shay Segev has indicated the company will be making large investments in sporting rights.
“We are committed to supporting and investing in Foxtel’s television and streaming services, across both sports and entertainment, using our world-leading technology to further enhance the viewing experience for customers,” Segev said last month, upon the announcement of the $3.4 billion deal.
“We are also committed to using our global reach to export Australia’s most popular sports to new markets around the world, and we will continue to promote women’s and under-represented sports.”
This will be music to ARLC chairman Peter V’landys, who told the Daily Telegraph he is looking to lock in the next round of NRL broadcast rights by mid-year, drumming up a bidding war by mentioning that Paramount and Amazon have shown interest.
“We have got the most valuable rights in Australian sport. Last year we were the most viewed sport in Australia,” V’landys told the publication.
“It will also depend on if someone else wants the rights and there will be plenty of parties wanting the rights.
“The way free-to-air TV is going – sport, reality TV and news is their whole ball game. They are not competing for the other content anymore.”
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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I stopped paying foxtel over 15 uears ago. I get better shows and very few ads if any by subscribing to other companies. Ok I have to subscribe to multiple companies but I am paying far less than the cheapest foxtel but I am getting far more than the most expensive foxtel.
People must learn to shop around but so many get stuck with one company and never change so they don’t know just how much money is stolen from them!
I always search for better deals with every service for example I search for cheap electricity at least twice per year, I am rarely with one company for more than 18 months.
Those still with foxtel must love being scammed out of money.
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I now find Foxtel so overpriced and 🥱 boring. We have other streaming services much cheaper. Even with competition they are still upping the monthly amount. Have been with Foxtel (Austar) for 33 years. Paid up for Feb and it will be goodbye 👋 can’t justify paying for it anymore.
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Goodbye fox to much money and to many ads you will be coming to pick up your 2 boxes as well not my problem
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I only watch Sky Racing as far as I’m concerned the rest is crap. Not everyone likes the NRL so don’t be bluffed by PVL.
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Well you rhink thats bad…On top of that I also received this motofcation from foxtel today…..We are writing to let you know we are making changes to the way your Foxtel service is supported in your local area. From 1 March 2025^ your account will be reclassified as an ‘owner install’ service.
This means you will own and be responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the satellite dish and associated cabling for your Foxtel service and Foxtel will continue to own the Foxtel set top box.
The Foxtel technical support team remain here to help you, however if there is an identified technical issue with your satellite dish or cabling you will be responsible for arranging a local technician at your own cost. Alternatively, you can speak to our team about other options such as having your service delivered via our internet enabled iQ4 or iQ5, which means you no longer need a satellite.
So not only is there an increase in cost they’re reducing services and making us pay for our own maintenance
What a joke !
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Mine has gone up $3 a month. I think all of Foxtel is a take. We joined Foxtel years ago because supposedly no ads. I recently taped three episodes of a series and I replayed those three episodes and saw them fully in two hours fast forwarding through the ads.
You look at anything, not taping, and you get ten minutes of show and then heaps of ads in between. I have counted 20 ads between an episode of a series and the return to the episode after ads. Absolutely ridiculous. 😡
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I would like to see better restructuring of the available packages. For example
As a 78 year old female I am not interested in sports or children’s shows and would like to have the option of not receiving them. Surely it is time for more flexibility.
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It’s funny how subscription prices go up while the number of episodes in a television series go down and the time between seasons balloons out to two years instead of one.
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I used to love Foxtel about 25 years ago, but it was all downhill from there. I knew it was time to get rid of it when they dropped Turner Classic Movies and put “Ancient Aliens” on the History Channel.
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New channel on foxtel is just moving what we see to a new number and repeating what we have seen.
Britbox is an example
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Not happy!been with foxtel for ova 20yrs.not happy with price hike.they won’t even help me,want to charge $200service fee to come see me ,fix a problem that I don’t understand
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Subscription price going up, more shows being put onto other streaming platforms as in British programs that were viewed on Foxtel now you have to subscribe to Britbox for it to be streamed via fox. Same with a lot of shows, season 1-2-3 on fox then moves to different streaming service for season 4-5 etc
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What a joke…I’m unsubscribing and only watch Sky News, Cricket and League finals.
When I have Netflix and You Tube for peanuts. Foxtels needs to drastically reduce priced, not increase them.
Foxtels is all repeats with more adds than (so-called) free to air TV.
Why do I have it? Because of the recording box. If any smart electronics tech person can offer us a recording devise only, they will be multi-millionaires!!
Goodbye Foxtel….after 25 years.
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A Foxtel customer from the outset, in fact co-involved with development and content provision, was based on ad-free. Now it’s a clear double-dip – subscription costs and garnering revenues from ad placements. And worse, increasingly so many ad-driven interruptions in makes Free to Air look more sensible. Forget carping about ‘sports rights’, it’s just increasingly unwatchable anyway. And suggesting a rise in already high monthly fees – really? I’d suggest many will cancel and migrate to streaming from wheresoever. Disgraceful and most disappointing [lack of] fair management and content delivery. Again, I’d suggest that Foxtel and all affiliated ‘content providers’ are risking a total loss of commitment and trust
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There is a big difference from now & upto 40 years ago. Foxtel has changed too much, there are always less likable programs whether they are new or old. I have noticed they do worse every year. Plus the new Foxtel boxes run with the internet. I will quit Foxtel, if I need a new box. There is hardly anything good to watch anymore. All shows have gone to streaming services. Now you need the internet to run a lousy printer onto the computer & phone. Modern technology is becoming ridiculous.
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That’s fine raising the price, but please with technology these days we still loose reception if a storm is in the area. When you can garentee reception at all times, then think about charging your loyal customers more money. I believe you will loose more loyal customer if you start raising fees instead of fixing your satalite issues.
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Why are we being charged more when shows are being taken away so if we want to watch we have to pay for MORE pay TV subscriptions? NOT HAPPY
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Foxtel has me thinking now they probably get less customers now I new it will go up because they sold it to overseas.
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Agree with long term loyal subscribers voicing their displeasure at more Foxtel price increases for less programs of value.
Return of TCM would be welcome and have a niche market. The majority of movies currently being made are total rubbish and an insult to one’s intelligence .
Pick up your game Foxtel there are better options available as you will be finding out.
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Always ready to up price in January. On average family would be spending hundreds of dollars to access different platforms.
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Getting far too overpriced, less programs, have to rethink using foxtel.!!
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Foxtel just does not get it. They have always priced their subscription as a luxury product.
That’s why only around 35% of Australian households ever subscribed to Foxtel Pay TV service as compared to around 70% in the USA and around 60% in Western Europe. Prices should he no higher than $49 per month. Yet here they go lifting prices again.
No wonder Netflix and other streaming services have been eating their lunch.
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And not to mention the number of advertisements goes up! The whole point of ‘pay tv’ is the subscription provides the income so the provider doesn’t need to sell advertising time. Now we have just as much advertising as free to air TV and still pay monthly for the privilege of watching the ads….
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People still subscribe to Foxtel?!
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Well that’s me out! Too expensive now, cheaper to use other streaming services.
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Wish Foxtel would bring back Turner Classic Movies TCM instead of the so called classic channel of tired old TV series & western movies. TCM has many movies that you never see ln Australia.
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Mines going up from $52 to $77 not even one year in to my 3 year discount of $52 they agreed to
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I started off at $41 3 years ago now it is $85 I love my cricket and race horses now going let it go no more Foxtel to dear for a pensioners.
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This is an Absolute Highway Robbery situation! As a Pensioner the small increase is deplorable.😡 As BBCFIRST Has gone and many of Foxtels programs now only available by extra fees( now paying an extra $21 Britbox + Paramount Plus) Netflix was free with my package, however I upgraded and pay $7. So was paying $131 mth, all together with the extra subscriptions $155 mth 😡. This is totally unacceptable and I shall, like many others, try to renegotiate or will cancel. I keep sport(darts & Snooker) FTA Channels, Movies channel, British is ok, however old stuff, plus Yes Another 👎👎All the Ads- OMG SO MANY STINKING ADS. Things on Apps unable to record, 10play, Britbox etc, It really has been Extremely frustrating and badly handled since July 2024 through to the Foxtel Sale and now missing channels, other unrecordable apps & old repeats. Britbox only has up to series 12 of Vera, series 13 was on BBCFIRST over 12 months ago plus other series too.😡
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Overpriced now! Don’t know how Foxtel can justify their pricing. Only watch cricket and motorsports! Will be cancelling my subscription. I’m a pensioner and cannot afford the increase. Just greedy!
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I gave up Foxtel last price hike. Now I watch my favourite shows through Binge. Much cheaper.
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Yeah thier gonna dump all of the shows and movie’s etc for sporting venues and events only wait n see they’ve already started, think it’s time to leave foxtel? I am!
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They need to fix their app so Foxtel can be watched on the new Google Streamer…….
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Really ! So if I have to pay more for Foxtel, with more and more adds I suppose. Pay TV is suppose to be add free, so why am I paying for these adds? Foxtel just gets worse , they are so greedy, they have priced themselves out of business as far as I am concerned.
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It’s great how people after what is a 2-3% rise (on par with CPI) are like THAT’S IT I’M OUT, 25 YEARS A CUSTOMER BUT THAT $2 IS TOO MUCH FOR ME!
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Disappointed sky news is the emergency broadcaster for tv and can’t put up emergency warnings less shows more advertisements it’s stuffed thanks for the 20 odd year’s
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How rude,it getting to be a joke!so expensive,they even want to charge $200 for someone to come help me with the technical side of it as I don’t understand,just expect me pay more bloody money and they don’t give me help,been with them for 20 yrs.
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I think it’s for a change got pay tv 20 odd years ago not to watch adds I think Hubble is better value.
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Yes typical Foxtel puts up the prices & we still get bloody repeats. Can’t even get to watch live cricket of the Australia tour of sir Lanka. They spend billions of dollars & we pay the price! This is bull shit!!!!
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And not to mention the number of advertisements goes up! The whole point of ‘pay tv’ is the subscription provides the income so the provider doesn’t need to sell advertising time. Now we have just as much advertising as free to air TV and still pay monthly for the privilege of watching the ads….
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Yeah thier gonna dump all of the shows and movie’s etc for sporting venues and events only wait n see they’ve already started, think it’s time to leave foxtel? I am!
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Why do the media push this lie for Vlandy’s that the nrl is the most watched sport in Australia? It’s simply not true when you dig into the data, he’s counting the same viewer multiple times a weekend coz none of their games overlap and using the outdated averages metric which favours a sport with a shorter running time. The tv companies know this it’s why they always pay much more for the afl rights because it has more ‘individuals’ watch by a decent margin, they aren’t stupid.
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Been with this since day one.now saturated by adds at every opportunity. Losing many live sports now but still employing many so called commentators just cause they can.shut the f up when all we want is true live sport .too many repetitive adds so now mute it every chance.should not have to do that.offer a button code on set top recorder that stops all bloody adds.get me premier league and then you have so many winners there.stick optus they have stuffed it right up.piss them off from the no.1 foxtel.
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Agree with everyone else been with for 30 years
Will be leaving to many adds + reapts
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It’s becoming a rip off time to say goodbye 👋
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Number one sport in the World FOOTBALL Not one game on OZ Foxtel this is not a sports broadcaster that’s why l many others joined originally ?
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Number one sport in the World FOOTBALL, Not one league shown in OZ Foxtel the main reason thousands subscribed originally sport broadcaster Ha and increase price should be reduced.
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Good on ya Foxtel. How about fixing our ongoing issues. Happy to pay for a great service BUT guess what its not. Three new boxes later and stiil the same issues. Their solution lets just send them another box. REALLY Thinking about getting rid of it.
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Bring back tcm.Not the b grade fox classic movies.
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I have to pay more for no extra viewing, you just fucked up my cricket coverage by hiring Warner the most disliked cricketer in Australia.
I watched it on 7
What about a free store movie a month, you used to do it.
I have had foxtel for a long time but being a pensioner it makes it hard to justify
As you can gather I am not happy but you really don’t care.
Kelvin
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Platinum subscriber here but not for long, FOXTEL is over rated and over priced. Plenty of other options out there to subscribe with
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Any they still blast you with ads even though you pay a premium. Such a greedy organization.
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Never watched nrl.
Never met anyone in my life of 70+ who has watched nerl.
Who makes these figures up?
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That’s fine raising the price, but please with technology these days we still loose reception if a storm is in the area. When you can garentee reception at all times, then think about charging your loyal customers more money. I believe you will loose more loyal customer if you start raising fees instead of fixing your satalite issues.
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I hope they bring back the tennis ATP and WTA tours then the cost will be worth it.
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I haven’t been notified of the increase and I have a platinum service with 2 set top boxes and there is next to nothing on but old crap anyway. I got it for the cricket and they don’t have all the matches, plenty of adds, I though we paid for it so we didn’t get the crap adds.
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Too many poor repetitive channels, overpriced underperforming crap sports channels, garbage movies. Only news channel worthwhile giving an alternative view to the social left ABC news.
Wake up Foxtel
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I cannot afford to pay too much more and I am not interested in Dazn or anyone else.
Only interested in NRL .
And if prices keep going up You can guess the rest.
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And no body has mentioned how Fox wants us to own the dish and cables and if they fail it’s up to the subscribers to pay for the repair
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That’s it I’m done. I’m leaving the sinking ship, back in the 90s, no adds, simple. I’ve persevered faithfully, stupidly for 30 years while technology has so advanced and now this technology is like VCR, so outdated and here’s the kicker, idiots like me are still paying for this rubbish $103 a month….. your kidding, bye
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In the era of high inflation and families getting hit in the hip pocket, I think it might be the end of Foxtel for me too, I’ve been with them since 1994 when they were called galaxy, but now I am paying for repeats, and substandard programs
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That’s it for me. It’s just not worth the money to have it. They don’t have many new shows or movies and every few months they put on harry potter movies for a week repeating over and over again.
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Bring back Turner classic movies us people in our later years don’t have anything to watch other than Sky News or maybe a good old classic. Tired of the rubbish we are dished up I have been a customer when it was galaxy in the seventies. It maybe time for a change
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Few watch the AFL games because they tend to go to them instead. So few AFL adds on Foxtel….. compared to NRL.
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I wish they would go belly up, as they deserve. I use free streaming services with a VPN for USA and UK access. It’s incredible how much free content on the USA version of the fabulous free Tubi TV for example is locked up by Foxtel as premium and unavailable to us. So invest in a VPN or DNS proxy for a mere couple of bucks a month and get better content for nothing via services such as Tubi, Sling, BBC, Xumo, Pluto and Film rise. Seriously folks. You don’t need to get robbed like this
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I wish they would go belly up, as they deserve. I use free streaming services with a VPN for USA and UK access. It’s incredible how much free content on the USA version of the fabulous free Tubi TV for example is locked up by Foxtel as premium and unavailable to us. So invest in a VPN or DNS proxy for a mere couple of bucks a month and get better content for nothing via services such as Tubi, Sling, BBC, Xumo, Pluto and Film rise. Seriously folks. You don’t need to get robbed like this
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I have Foxtel with Telstra and have not been advised of the increase
We get more and more adds and less shows to watch repeats after repeats
We lost BBC earth to fetch tv and is crap
We have lost more stations and when they replace some it’s crap
They have lost the plot and don’t listen to there audience
I am over this and will be canceling my Foxtel very soon
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Too many repeats & ads old burnt out movies no new spy of Vera & Shetland . Certainly no bang for your subscription 😡
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Well that’s Foxtel gone for me. Hasn’t really been value for money for us for a while but now with this price hike and changes to infrastructure so some customers have to take on the cost of maintenance aswell it seems an ideal time to punch out. Sayonara Foxtel.
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Price rise would be to bad if they gave new content. Programs are repeat day in day out. There is little to no new content on any channel. Worst thing is they are making so much ad revenue. In the beginning it was just pay TV no ads. More ads than content.
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Wish they would offer rewind and forward like Netflix, ability to delete something from continue watching instead of having to scroll through last episode. Positively archaic system and don’t get me started on old repeats
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Price goes up quality of content goes down. I wanted to watch Australia v Sri Lanka cricket. Its only on Channel Seven. 20/20 World Cup only on Prime. I’ve also noticed that ‘On Demand’ now has adverts. Foxtel is getting very close to breaking the camel’s back.
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No tennis dispointed ………up the price we out ..Only all repeats now.
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That’s enough I have been with Foxtel for 20 years and seen the quality of programs decline while prices continue to rise. I can have multiple subscriptions for what I am paying for this outdated service and end up with far better content. Bye Foxtel.
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May as well just watch free to air TV now because there are more commercials on Foxtel than on the commercial stations! Why should we have to pay for that?
That was why we originally (decades ago) paid for it, so we didn’t have to sit through endless shitty stupid and, lately, moronic ads!
What we spend in a year will buy dozens of old TV shows and movies on DVD and all ad free!
Seeya Foxtel! I’m over you!
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Only have Foxtel for the wrestling now they don’t have it anymore considering cancelling sick of all the channels with repeat after repeat
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That would be right lose the WWE and then kicks us in the guts with a price hike we done
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Haven’t had Foxtel for years now. Honestly if you are still a sub you are just getting robbed blind.
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If i could get formula 1 any other way i would drop foxtel today
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What I don’t get, everyone’s on a different price deal. Some lucky ones on $50 with some on even less. I’m on $79 and lots on the max $100 or even $120 !!. The only advantage to having Foxtel is the recording options. Maybe Hubble is my next move. Good luck everyone.
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Ihatepayinglatefeesof$15everyfoxtelbilleveryothercompanydoesntchargethisfeeiamthinkingofgettingridoffoxtelnowihavebeenaloyalcustomeroftheirsforyearsbutnomorecantaffordtherise
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Who gonna pay these days for paying Tv
Real and smart people pay 80$ per year and using IPTV
You can watch all Foxtel channels as Full HD and 12000 more channels from all around the world
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I have been a Foxtel customer for over 20 years but will not be one much longer because of amount we already pay monthly being risen again! ADS are absolutely taking over every show. You may get 20 minutes of every show because of the huge number of these ads being aired. This has to stop!
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I have been a Foxtel customer for over 20 years but will not be one much longer because of amount we already pay monthly being risen again! ADS are absolutely taking over every show. You may get 20 minutes of every show because of the huge number of these ads being aired. This has to stop!
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Totally over FOXTEL – repeat after repeat – old movies – I’m moving to alternative Streaming Services in July
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I have not received any notification of a price increase and today received my bill to see Foxtel has gone up from $56 to $80.
It is time now time to say goodbye to Foxtel.
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The satellite dish. If anything goes wrong with it . I don’t care won’t be spending any money on it. Where does Foxtel get the idea this is our problem. No way mate
Never will be my problem.
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