Costa Blanca
This month I shall be explaining Sky “multiroom”, and why it will not work here as it does in the UK. When you have a Sky subscription in the UK and wish to have a second Digibox and card with exactly the same channels in another room, you can ask for the multiroom option. This enables you to obtain the second card for only £10 extra per month, instead of having to pay the same price you would pay for your main card, (and here is the important bit), providing that the second card and box is connected to a telephone line for at least 12 months.
This is to prevent you from removing it from one address and taking it to, shall we say, Spain, as all Sky subsidised equipment remains their property for 12 months. They can verify this by sending a signal to the digibox instructing it to perform a “callback”, which basically means that the digibox will call Sky and verify that it is still connected to the telephone line at the address in the contract. If Sky do not receive a “callback” after several attempts, they will then switch off the card and bill you with the full subscription price! After the initial 12 month contract period, you may unplug the box from the line, and take it
anywhere you want. Alternatively, if your main box and card have been connected for more than 12 months, they can be unplugged and moved anywhere, leaving the multiroom card and box connected at the registered address. Just in case you were wondering- if a multiroom box and card are connected to a telephone line in Spain, it will not callback correctly. Sorry!! Regards, Lee
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