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Moving abroad (Switzerland) can I take SKY with me?

Michael4411 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:37:18 GMT

Hello

I am moving to Switzerland, can I take my sky box abroad and continue using it?

Is there an email address to contact SKY about this and get assistance? Or a phone number?

Re: Moving abroad (Switzerland) can I take SKY with me?

Mark39 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:40:52 GMT

I'm afraid not.

However, Sky are represened in Switzerland, I believe, so you could contact them to establish what services they have and how to sign up.

Re: Moving abroad (Switzerland) can I take SKY with me?

Daniel0210 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:41:06 GMT

@Michael4411

No. Your contract is for UK / ROI use only, as is the T's and C's regarding the viewing card useage which is just at the account address.

Re: Moving abroad (Switzerland) can I take SKY with me?

TimmyBGood — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:17:25 GMT

@Michael4411

It's not possible to transfer a Sky UK television subscription to another country. Sky is a regulated media provider in Switzerland, but naturally the content served will be in German, French or Italian. Any satellite dish in Switzerland (assuming it can see over a mountain) is likely to be pointing at Astra 19.2 for European broadcast reception, rather than 28.2 which serves the UK and RoI.

Note that Sky Stream is geo-blocked and won't work even where internet is available.

Re: Moving abroad (Switzerland) can I take SKY with me?

GD1 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:09:26 GMT

@Michael4411 The good news is there is a legitimate Swiss Pay TV provider where you do get a selection of FTA satellite channels from the UK, but as @TimmyBGood indicates pay channels will be in either German, Italian and French as those are the 3 languages spoken across Switzerland.

Re: Moving abroad (Switzerland) can I take SKY with me?

TimmyBGood — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:58:12 GMT

@GD1 wrote:

@Michael4411 The good news is there is a legitimate Swiss Pay TV provider where you do get a selection of FTA satellite channels from the UK

https://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/tv-subscription.html

Interestingly expensive, like the rest of the country...

Re: Moving abroad (Switzerland) can I take SKY with me?

GD1 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:36:09 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:

@GD1 wrote:

@Michael4411 The good news is there is a legitimate Swiss Pay TV provider where you do get a selection of FTA satellite channels from the UK

https://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/tv-subscription.html

Interestingly expensive, like the rest of the country...

Of course 😁