BT Vision nets 60,000 subscribers, halves installation charge
Friday, November 9th, 2007Back of the net?
BT Vision, the biggest IPTV service in the UK has racked up a sizeable number of subscribers since its launch last year – 60,000 since the end of 2006.
BT has said that the figures were “in line with expectations”, despite the company initially projecting a target of 100,000 by the end of 2007.
Current figures from BT show that the average take-up rate of new customers is somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 households a week, which means that if this rate does not significantly increase, BT will miss their target.
In a post published on The Register today, an unnamed BT spokesperson is quoted saying: “When we said the end of 2007, we of course meant the end of the financial year.”
In other recent news, BT have also given customers the option to connect their V-Box themselves for a reduced fee of £30. Costs for the box and the engineers installation fee are typically covered by a one-off £60 charge. Dan Marks, BT Vision CEO, said:
“For customers who don’t want or need an engineer visit, Self Install makes BT Vision an even more attractive choice – it gives all the benefits of our next-generation digital TV service for an incredible up front price of just £30.”
The Self Install option comes with a pair of powerline adaptors, which plug into wall power sockets and carry the signal from the BT Home Hub to the V-box across the domestic power circuit, offering customers great choice over where they can set up their digital TV equipment in the home.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:45 pm
So what Digital-TV are actually saying about Mr Orr is that because he is unemployed that he does not deserve digital television or television at all?
I would be very careful if you are going to start attacking unemployed people as it is a cheap stunt and violates the individuals human rights by being ‘named and shamed’ in the way that you have.
If the government had sorted their European Immigration Policy out then Mr Orr might actually have been able to find a job.
Your comments wreak of the middle-class dross that we have come to expect from a public organisation who is trying to get ahead of the game.
Bad show guys.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Hi Julien,
We were pointing out that it was ironic that somebody who was receiving an allowance from the government would complain that they would have to give some of it back.
We weren’t attempting to slander or name and shame anybody. We aim to keep tone of this blog informative and slightly irreverent.
Sorry for the misunderstanding
November 7th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
About time there was a “grey area” comment on here.
Reading the article like I do daily on this site, I think that Mr Woolley is missing the point. There is no attack on the unemployed from the post, but its purely ironic that Mr Orr, currently unemployed, is moaning about giving money back to the government when it has been handed to him from the government. …”ironically, from a Mr. James Orr, who is unemployed”….
It is inevitable that digital tv is coming and currently Sky offer one of the best services available for what the majority of the UK public wish to view - great sports coverage, latest movies, fantastic children’s programmes etc etc.
I’ve been a Sky customer for years and think its a fantastic service.
You may want to check out Sky Picnic……
November 21st, 2007 at 11:19 am
I’ve got a Humax box, which does some nice things such as record, pause and rewind TV, and am thinking of getting BT vision.
Would I lose any functionality on my Humax if I move it to another room and put BT Vision in the front room?