The football season began in summer and surely many are already enjoying it at home. However, be careful because those who have not yet contracted their sports packages will be in for an unpleasant surprise.
The prices to watch LaLiga and the Champions League have grown quite a bit since the beginning, according to a recent report from Roamsa platform specialized in comparing rates. Orange and Movistar, the only operators that offer all matches, have increased their rates by an average of 22.39% compared to prices just two months ago.
The most affected rates are miMovistar Base and Love Ftbol de Orange. The first has increased more than 10%, while the second has become more expensive by 9.6%. In practical terms, this means that watching a day of football now costs around 28 euros, when at the beginning of the season it was around 22 euros.
According to Ana de la Torre, a Roams expert, “operators have adjusted their prices to levels similar to or even higher than those of last season, leaving behind the historic discounts we saw in August.”
Are operators pushing fans towards less legal options such as IPTV?
These price increases coincide with an increase in the use of illegal IPTV services, which offer access to the same content for a fraction of the price or even for free and which is currently an act that is being highly persecuted by all types of countries, including Spain.
This scenario puts operators in a somewhat complicated position. On the one hand, they need to recover the investment made in transmission rights, which are increasingly expensive. On the other hand, they risk losing part of their audience if prices continue to rise.
The situation is certainly not very positive when we have to consider that the average salary in Spain is around 1,700 euros per month. For many, investing more than 100 euros a month to watch football is simply unfeasible, so it is even logical that they look for cheaper alternatives, even if they are illegal..
As mentioned before, football operators and leagues are taking measures to combat piracy, but all this could come to nothing if the root problem is not solved: economic accessibility.
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Tags: Sport, Piracy, IPTV, Economy