Commercial Telecoms

Sky TV subscription

What is it?

Imagine having Sky News, Sky Sports and an extensive choice of music channels available in your passenger lounge, staff room or hotel. Sky TV keeps your staff informed with the latest news and trends and helps create an upbeat and inspiring environment to work in or visit.

Heathrow Commercial Telecoms can now provide Sky TV channels through the existing Heathrow IPTV service, giving you both Freeview and Sky TV in one integrated package. There is no need to install satellite dishes or aerials as our service is delivered over our managed network. You also have the option to hide the set-top box with remote infra red sensors allowing you to design your demise as you see fit.

What do we offer?

  • Centrally managed IPTV distribution system based on NetVue technology
  • IPTV stream delivered over Heathrow’s managed network
  • Sky determines the channels to be included in the offering at any one time.

    View Channels list

    What are our SLAs?

    Service Hours
    Service Service hours Service days Critical business periods
    Support Mon - Sun
    Service request N/A
    Targets
    Down for all Down for some Down for one
    Restoration

    Targets
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    Restoration

    How much does it cost?

    In order to subscribe to the Sky channels package you will need to install our IPTV service first

    IPTV
    Installation £258
    Monthly £31

    In addition to the IPTV service charge you will need a subscription to the Sky TV channels. Sky subscriptions is on a per TV screen basis and is an incremental charge to the IPTV service.

    Activation £0 when ordered with IPTV, £144 if ordered after
    Monthly £103 per connected TV

    Minimum term contract is 12 months.

    What technical information do I need to know?

    • Sky channels are only available in standard definition (SD).
    • Interactive, high definition (HD) or 3D services are not available as part of the Sky package.
    • In order to receive Sky channels customers must install IPTV first. This is a TV system distributed over the Heathrow network infrastructure.
    • Customers are responsible for providing televisions for this service.
    • The solution includes two elements; a data network connection over the Heathrow IPTV VLAN back to a set of IPTV servers; and an IPTV exterity box which will deliver both the standard Freeview and Sky channels.

    Why us?

    • Fully resilient service, leveraging Heathrow’s own Cisco network infrastructure to deliver high availability
    • Wide selection of Sky and Freeview channels
    • Cost-competitive and straightforward bundled pricing model, with no hidden costs
    • On-site technical team provides 24x7x365 end to end support for the solution