Broadband ISP Plusnet Doubles BT Sport TV Price from £5 to £10

Customers of UK ISP Plusnet, which is a BT sibling company, who take the £5 per month BTSport TV App add-on on a 30 day contract have been left in shock after the provider suddenly began informing them that the price they currently pay would be hiked by 100% from 17th September 2019.

According to a notification received by the provider’s customers, “This is so BT Sport can continue to give you all the great exclusive content you’ve come to expect.” In response to the inevitable gripes on social media the ISP said it was “sorry” and added: “Despite the increase, we’re still significantly cheaper than most other vendors of BT Sport by quite a large margin, although we can certainly appreciate your frustrations.”

In fairness the move is in keeping with changes elsewhere and a quick test of BT’s own ordering system shows that it also costs +£10 to add the BTSport App to a broadband package on their parent operator, although the disadvantage with BT is that you’re tied into a longer contract term of 18 or 24 months.

Prices for adding BT Sport tend to vary across different platforms and bundles, although at present only a smaller subset of Plusnet’s own customers take the paid BTSport App add-on.

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