Optus extends English EPL broadcast rights in announcement which impacts World Cup coverage

Quality is complete and utter shite no matter how you stream it Anyone who thinks streaming TV is quality is a complete and utter moron who clearly only has a shitty tv

No you dont If you actually watch it on a proper TV then you can see the quality is complete shit Try watching a game on BeIN in FULL HD and try saying the Optus Streaming is any good

They haven't ironed anything out The quality is rubbish You can't record games (unless you get a Fetch Mighty) Not all games are available on demand The EPL on Optus is complete and utter total rubbish

How is a terrible streaming service with piss poor quality and zero ability to record and not all games available on demand good news Watching the games on BeIN is far better - its in FULL HD

There is an Optus Sport app on Apple TV. It’s not great but it’s functional.

Rick Very well explained

Yes and no. Cable is a hybrid technology using fibre & coaxial —it's been capped at 100 Mbps download for some time, but I doubt many customers would have been on plans like this (not years ago anyway) or even now. Cable, however, is limited in its upload speed to around 2mps (give or take). NBN will up this to 40 Mbps with a 100mbps download making it redundant. So in reality, cable will be no better or worse in most applications compared to the first generation of NBN plans. It really depends on what technology has been delivered to your street though. Thanks to the Coalition, most will be getting FTTN, meaning whatever plan you're on will result in only 60-95 percent of your plan speed. A vast majority are still going to be handicapped by Telstra's ##!tty 100+-year-old copper network. My area rolled out some time ago but was only FTTN, but you can take up an option to pay extra for FTTP. I've received a quote for this (which you can do through NBN's website) for around $18,000. You can, of course, split this with other households in your area and is dependant on how far you're from the node. Now I would have no issue paying this, but what would be the point? FTTP will give you better bandwidth and closer to your planned speed, but it's not significant enough to offset the cost. I'm currently getting around 28Mbps upload, and 92 Mbps download. Here's the kicker though (which most don't understand): Most plans (outside commercial) are capped at 100 Mbps download speed. However, the theoretical limit of fibre speeds is 67000 Mbps. Expect in the coming years for ALL providers to ramp up their speeds into the gigabyte ranges. When this happens, you'll want that FTTP once promised by Labor! Until then, we're all stuck with a poor-mans NBN service, but it will evolve rapidly over the next five years I suspect. When this occurs, I expect a major shift away from traditional broadcasting of our major sports.

if you have apple tv they will have an app or you can download the app on your apple phone and airplay via apply tv (for older gens)

As I understand it, if you want to watch on your TV you'll need either a set top box (Fetch TV) or chrome cast. Optus aren't going to have an app like Netflix, on smart TV. Otherwise, you watch on your mobile or device. I signed up and have both, a mini set top box (no record function) and app on mobile phone, for $10 per month (mobile customer, their website says $15 pm). If you want the record function you need the bigger Set top box and must be an Optus broadband customer. My plan is monthly, pay in advance, so theoretically I could sign up for one month then cancel.

That is such a myth. NBN is a lot faster than ADSL2+

Going from Cable to NBN will slow your internet down considerably not increase it.

Any idea if you can just sign up for the month of the World Cup? Seems good for the consumer, as long as I can get it to work on my TV and my internet connection doesn't drop out too much (NBN a long time away apparently)

Sounds good. As a minimalist Optus customer already they had dropped their price from $75 to $15 pm (on my plan), through their set top box. But piping it through directly, assumedly on a smart TV without casting, like Netflix, they open up to a whole new group of customers.

Terrific news. And, today, the NBN is being rolled out in my street. I already get crystal clear, HD quality streaming via my cable internet, so NBN can only be a further improvement. Foxtel will hit back. The CEO of Foxtel recently said Foxtel will soon be launching specific Streaming packages that is specific to a sport, and, with football having the most LIVE content on FoxSports I'd expect maybe $25/month football only package to be offered by Foxtel. Isn't it amazing how competition has benefited the consumer? Until Optus came into the sports market, Foxtel just did as it pleased.

Great news for non-Optus customers. You don't have to be tied to a Telstra nbn/mobile to access Foxtel as Foxtel offers stand alone services to non-Telstra customers. The news that you have to be tied with Optus to watch WC2018 matches is false.

There were a lot of issues early on but they seemed to have ironed it all out by the midway point. Having the sports package available to everyone really is a win for everyone.

Excellent news! Optus strung it along for as long they could but finally they have separated Optus TV with their phone service subscription.