UK TV IN SPAIN - STATEMENT PLEASE

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Mar 22nd 2013, 11:12 pm

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Re: UK TV IN SPAIN - STATEMENT PLEASE

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Originally Posted by Domino

I have this morning spoken to Sky who have emphatically stated that Sky, Sky Go and other services within the group are UK only and they do not have any arrangements with anyone to provide their services in Spain. It was also emphasised that if I was offered their products in Spain I should think very carefully before accepting.

Tech Note - I did not say where in Spain I lived, the call was made on Skype so not traceable and when asked by their automated system for my telephone number I gave a dummy number on the 0203 exchange.
No animals were injured or used in this exercise.

NO ONE SAID YOU COULD BUY SKY IN SPAIN

IT IS LEGAL NOW TO WATCH SKY IN SPAIN

´´national legislation which prohibits the import, sale or use of (SKY) foreign decoder cards is contrary to the freedom to
provide services and cannot be justified ´´
skype not traceable - make my day that has lol
and why do you have to dress up in your mothers clothes to ring sky ??
what strange things are going on at that motel you run ????

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Mar 22nd 2013, 11:24 pm

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Re: UK TV IN SPAIN - STATEMENT PLEASE

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Originally Posted by Dxf

Yes but they don´t all live in the same place - i.e. Spain - will the Spanish system be able to cope??? And will my local Movistar have sufficient bandwidth for MY town?

It is the local bandwidths that I fear may not be able to cope; if you live halfway up a mountain, and get internet through a landline, will the cables take what is required for fulltime TV viewing? That is my doubt

But I am very happy to be proved wrong

Davexf

´ i live in a house higher then the highest point in england and am 1000km from the coast of europe .I can watch live TV from LONDON or LOS ANGELS without a bleep . i really ewithout insulting anyon feel i am typing away in 2013 to people who seem to be living i back n the 20th century . i am amazed !!!

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Mar 22nd 2013, 11:31 pm

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Re: UK TV IN SPAIN - STATEMENT PLEASE

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Originally Posted by EMR

For SkyGO you need a UK address for your Sky contract so once again we are in that dodgy area of infringing your contract with Sky if you live abroad.
They do switch users off and will refuse connections if they believe that the receiver is not in the UK.

´´national legislation which prohibits the import, sale or use of foreign decoder cards is contrary to the freedom to provide services and cannot be justified ´´
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/d...cp110102en.pdf

SKY GO requires no connection and no receiver or dish or installer just a name and password which you enter from YOUR computer .
i would say 99% of sky go customers in spain have a uk address .
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Mar 23rd 2013, 7:25 am

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Re: UK TV IN SPAIN - STATEMENT PLEASE

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Originally Posted by BAT7311

Yes prepare to be amazed; there was NO internet access when I moved into my house. Then after four years I was able to get a dongle at 512. Last year a new Wimax service started and I now have 3Mb.

You may be lucky enough now to get a very good access to the internet. There are parts of Spain where the access is below par. But my point was that if everyone goes down the internet access route for HD TV - is there sufficient bandwidth? There used to be the word "contention" bandied about when there were too many people all using the internet in a locality. Or have you forgotten about such things?

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Mar 23rd 2013, 8:46 am

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Re: UK TV IN SPAIN - STATEMENT PLEASE

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Your "holier than thou" attitude leads me to believe that there is little more that can be said on this as clearly you know better than us all and have decided to belittle the other members as a whole

Therefore I close the thread, which many have said should have happened ages ago, as its going round and round in circles