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92% of what is watched on Pay Satellite or Pay Cable in Ireland is actually content either on free Satellite or free terrestrial.
It's sport that sells about 1/2 of PayTV here.
The cable company is getting Sat pay TV customers in the big cities ... because they have 100 Mbps to 400 Mbps HFC with local Netflix servers at their main nodes. There is not yet a huge amount of fibre and you need to be within 1km of the exchange or a fibre cabinet for decent VDSL broadband. The Cable company has a special deal on Netflix. So the cable company (a subsidiary of UPC a subsidiary of Liberty Global) now sells broadband only subscriptions. The Sky Satellite Pay TV are now doing streaming and reselling DSL/VDSL/Fibre. Did Disney buy them lately?

I stopped Pay TV over 15 years ago. I've no interest in it. I've little interest in what is on the ecologically damaging and sold near cost or below cost streaming. If the film is good I'll buy a DVD or BD. Also the so called HD on streaming is barely as good as DVD from a good film master decently upscaled.

Mostly I read books.

The only "recurring subscriptions" I'll pay are for broadband, my domains and my hosting. That's unavoidable. My phone is Pay as you Go top up vouchers. I don't use mobile data on it as I don't go out (even before the current situation).

I have legal Free To Air Satellite from four satellite positions and the local Irish terrestrial channels. I hardly watch TV now compared to 10 years ago.

The CGI in books is better anyway and easier to ditch rubbish with little investment.