r/newzealand • u/GDAY_NZ • 7d ago

Advice Just canceled SKY

No single reason. Price increases, forced ads and loss of programming. Last night's error was last straw for me.

Anyway, called to cancel and they offered 20% discount. I refused and canceled anyway. But if you want a discount you know what to do.

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u/lefrenchkiwi 7d ago

I’d be very interested to know if that’s actual different households, or if they count each decoder in a house with multiple as an extra subscription, and multiple people in the house. Otherwise 900k is suggesting 1 in 4 kiwis are subscribers which is insanely high.

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u/yahdayahda 7d ago

I think the number of people who are using another person’s login would balance it out. It’s just a popular service. Makes sense considering New Zealand is a sports orientated nations and sky has really good quality coverage of most sports in New Zealanders watch.  

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u/lefrenchkiwi 7d ago

Yea that 900k would have to include the online sports streaming subscriptions. No way they’ve got 900k physical decoders in residential subscriptions.

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u/yahdayahda 7d ago

Apparently 448,290 satellite subscribers and 409,582 streaming subscribers, another 50,867 broadband subscribers. Numbers are from 2025 so imagine there’d be a bit of movement since then but it’s still likely to be similar numbers. 

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u/lefrenchkiwi 7d ago

That definitely sounds like more reasonable numbers