FuboTV tomorrow is expected to begin testing a new base price of $69.99 a month rather than the current base price of $64.99 a month, the TV Answer Man has learned.
To conduct the test, the live streamer will alternate the FuboTV home page so different visitors will see different plan offerings. Some visitors will be offered the service’s three most popular plans, which run from $64.99 a month (Starter base plan) to $69.99 a month (Pro) to $79.99 a month (Elite).
But other site visitors will only see the option to order the $69.99 a month Pro and $79.99 a month Elite packages. There will be no Starter plan included. (The $33 a month Latino quarterly plan will be included in all offerings.)
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The more expensive plans include more channels and hours of DVR storage as well as more simultaneous streams to an account. A FuboTV official told the TV Answer Man the company wants to test whether consumers prefer plans that have more features.
“Over time, we’ve noticed our best-engaged customers maximize their DVR use. Given the DVR capacity is limited in the Starter package, as well as the number of concurrent streams, we’ll be testing making Pro the primary offer for new consumers to provide greater value around their DVR and household sharing experience,” the official said. “Pro offers all of the same sports, news and entertainment channels as Starter, but with upgraded DVR storage of 1,000 hours and Unlimited Screens (up to 10 device streams at home simultaneously). customers of our Pro plan can enjoy the recent addition of Magnolia Network, which was previously only available in our Elite package.”
FuboTV, which reported last week that it now has more than 1.1 million subscribers, has said it plans to experiment with different pricing and plans. The streamer last month tested quarterly-only plans prior to the Super Bowl but dropped the experiment a few days after the big game.
It’s unknown how long FuboTV will test offering a base price of $69.99 a month.
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Gotta cut the cord, right? No. You’re probably already paying as much for streaming as you were for cable or satellite. When you weigh in MUST HAVE internet to stream, why not pay for cable and get a service that the provider will fix if there is a technical problem?
70 bucks for FUBO, 50 ( min) for INTERNET and more if you have “other” services…don’t BITCH when you end up OLD and POOR !!
Well I’m already old. The problem I have is not having fiber available where I live. $120 for you is just under what I pay for Directv and DSL ($90 and $40 and that is not the bottom tier of TV programming Directv offers). Anyway, have fun pulling your hair out and twiddling your thumbs when your internet service is interrupted. Hopefully it won’t be from a natural disaster. Internet is usually the first thing to go down when it is. You’ll have to break out rabbit ears or find a radio to get local news.
Wow, I’d be crazy NOT to wanna pay more!
10 bucks for less tech hassles and piece of mind that I’ll have TV. Also i get virtually unlimited DVR capacity (by attaching separate hard drives to my Directv reciever), the recordings NEVER expire (well some downloads do). Most stream recordings expire after 90 days and auto-delete. Anyway, so yeah the extra 10 bucks is well worth it.
Yeah right. My fuboTV is $69.99 with a $5 sports fee. I pay $50 a month for fiber to the home 5020/500 service. My mom was paying Spectrum cable $222 for her basic cable TV with no premium channels, 200/10 Internet and phone. So tell me how my fuboTV and Internet costs just as much as cable and don’t tell me about the Internet cost. Every home has damn Internet service and everyone pays for it one way or another. Sheesh.
Like I said a lot of people can’t get fiber (as far as I’m concerned a requirement for a streaming service). If your mom was paying 222 a mo., then I’d be on board with streaming (I doubt it costs that much tbh I’d be very surprised).
Oh please. Fiber is not required for streaming ! Please, you can stream just fine on 30 Mbps. FACT. I know plenty of people with Spectrum cable Internet. 200 Mbps. And they are streaming fuboTV and YouTube TV all day and night long. No issues.