Question re. SKY TV installation

<table id="HB_Mail_Container" style="height: 100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr style="width: 100%; height: 100%"><td id="HB_Focus_Element" style="width: 100%; height: 250px" valign="top">This may seem a stupid question, but do you need to have a working telephone socket in the same room where SKY+ is being installed? TIA.</td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 1pt; height: 1px"></td></tr></tbody></table>

 

We've got bog standard sky

but our line isn't in the room - they just ran a cable around the door and into the living room

 

Thanks - 'think best thing to do is phone their customer helpline and check before I sign up.

 

TBH

I only think it needs to be hooked up to a phoneline to use the interactive services such as games. Ours isn't hooked up to one but it's only normal sky, but I can't see any reason why Sky+ would be any different.

 

It's part of the 12 month contract

that it is connected to the phone line, they can and do check as well - you'll get a nasty letter in that first 12 months if it isn't

Socket doesn't need to be in same room though...when I had Sky+ fitted and mutiroom in bedroom, they ran a phone cable from bedroom otside and into the living room to connect into that phone socket.

 

its "Box" standard actually nt

 

Thanks for all your replies - 'was beginning to think this would be a fly in the ointment!

 

It's either

but tends to be "bog standard" round these parts

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bog-standard.html

 

You'll probably be ok, it's up to the installation engineer....having read some boards I thought they might not do mine when I was having the original box moved, but it just wasn't an issue.

 

We had a nasty letter about the phoneline

We have multiroom on a special deal and they threatened to charge us for three individual boxes which would have worked out &pound;100+ or charge us &pound;60 for an engineer.

 

I thought it was too!

Cheers mate!(Y)

 

i unplugged mine when i had just had it put in

got that letter, i phoned them up they said they wanted it plugging in, i told them i wasnt going to they said if i didnt they would cut me off, they never did

 

I've got Sky+ and never had it connected to the phone socket. Disconnected it soon as they left.

 

Thanks for replies. Does this mean that people won't be able to get through when I'm watching SKY?

TIA.

 

No.

You won't notice any disruption whatsoever.

 

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Cheers, mate. Thought this SKY lark was going to turn out to be more trouble than it's worth!