Well, they have been saying gonna improve it...even now, when raining, the service still get interrupted...Improving my ass

then when service interrupted... you call thier customer service... i bet you they will use the same script even it is 100th time you call them... damn! that really make me sick...

its satellite la...really nothing much they can do about rain...its the same worldwide...even in countries that snow.

u think malaysia got the infrastructure to have cable in every house?
else all those kampungs with even no running water wont be able to enjoy astro anymore as its not possible to drag cables to every single kampung everywhere.

You might be able to get 10 EPL games running but you wont get it LIVE in UK... In UK there is only certain games that you do get live (Especially on Sunday or maybe Saturday morning)(UK time)


You can only get to choose which games you want them to play in your tv after the games is over...

Like MRR2? LOL

LOL yep, there are always excuses but never any action i suppose.

when problem arises, instead of fixing it, they give excuses.
when excuses runs out and they need to fix it, they give reasons for price hike
this then is a lesson in backdoor taichi... and at the end someone bears the monopolies brunt of the cost, which is the consumer

i'm cancelling my astro sports package next month. The only reason i got it is for EPL, ECL and La Liga. Nothing more... occasional see F1.. but that's all. So, i don't see why i wanna pay more for something i don't even turn to until like weekends.

So, I'm keeping the basic package + the cartoons for my kids. minimum. That's all.

if they increase again, I'll cancel astro as well. Free TV quite good. Plus my kids nowadays always turn to Youtube for latest manga or cartoons. So, better just cancel Astro rite?

it's the mom who loves Astro. AF la... Desperate Housewives la... McLoed's Daughter la... jeez.... my wife really into all these shows. Recently, i started downloading DHW season 5 full season and burn DVD for her. hahaha.. after this i dunno what's her excuse anymore.

Whatever u wanna see... it's all online. For live telecast, go to mamak.

is alright for the hike, especially for those family who really watch several sports game
but the problem with Astro is their quality improvement, nothing at all for these years, HD not yet implement and yet TV1 and TV2 already had it

I can see there's mix reaction to the price hike of the Sports Package. I saw some replies like "I'm hard core fan of Club ABC, so i don't care about the hike" ... i just wonder if you're actually paying for the bill in the first place.

For me, i would watch and see say for 6 months or so to determine whetever the price hike is reasonable. As I'm paying for the bill myself (helping my parents), i think its too early to bash Astro at this stage. Lets see what improvements they will introduce with that extra Rm12 or so.

Next year 2010, is world cup year and if they still want us to pay to watch the world cup then for sure i'm cancelling my package and head to the mamaks stores to watch the big event.

My parents have decided to cancel the sports package. So basically the next time my team plays, I will have to hang out at the mamak for the match. Else I will have to hang out at my friend's place for the game!

I believe a RM12 slap on the end users is a bit high. Even though the hike in price, I believe Astro don't really have to slap the users that much. But of course we can wait and see what they will have to improve their service.

hopefully malaysia hsbb iptv will give competition to astro in serving customer like what happen in our telecommunication provider.... god bless..

Thats the thing. Who cares about American baseball,and american football and X-games of 3 years ago,and GOLF! zzzzzzzzz!!!

Im just paying for EPL and the OCCASIONAL NBA game.

For me I don't have much of a choice. No way am I going to a mamak at 3am every weekend just to watch football

streaming at home is still a choice

Yeah but the quality sucks and don't even get me started on our ISPs.

parabola~

astro is monopoly organisation... so is up to them wan raise up price or not..

cuz they rr 1.. like najib said 1 malaysia...

we cannot find another sport channel so we dun hav choice... thats y astro do that.. ya i admit maybe the cost increased but they never do kebajikan for the customer.. if i can find another `astro` sure i potong that line...

for me the 12 hikeseem justified.
like now we can see the badminton world champ live and also the tennis game.
lets see what happen in the nex few month if astro can improve in their service, hope no extra charge for WC2010!!!

Going to the mamak in my case may be even more expensive taking into account the cost of petrol and drinks ordered at the mamak or bar and non-price factors like convenience so I'll just stick with Astro.

Besides I watch an average of 5 BPL matches per weekend and if you were to use the math to divide RM 12 per month over the 20 matches, it'd cost quite a measly amount compared to what I would spend at a mamak.

And as verx said, don't get started on streaming.

im cancelling mine too from next month.......not worth it at all 2 pay rm12, since i only watch on weekends.