Sky ( Sky Broadband ), a UK based Satellite TV and telecommunications company, has announced its intention to merge their online broadband TV catch-up service (Sky Player) and their mobile TV platform (Sky Mobile TV) into a single solution called Sky Go.

Sky Go will be free to all of Sky TV's existing customers and should provide "flexible access" to Sky content across multiple devices (e.g. iPhone, iPad, PC and Mac). Non-Sky customers will also be given access (note: not until August), although you will have to stump up for a separate £14-£40 monthly subscription.

The newly rebranded service, which will be known simply as 'Sky' on the XBox 360 and Fetch TV platforms (currently Sky Player), aims to launch on 6th July 2011. Sadly each home will only be entitled to register up to a maximum of two devices.


Sky officially acquired Wi-Fi Hotspot operator The Cloud at the start of this year, which gave it ownership of over 4,500 public wireless internet locations across the UK and will be used to support the new service. Further details about this are expected to be announced "in due course", which means they aren't quite ready yet.