Telekom makes a very important announcement regarding Eurosport and Discovery, their disappearance from the telecommunications group's channel grid being one of the main reasons for customer dissatisfaction. According to those from Telekom, if they had accepted Discovery's conditions to license the television stations, implicitly also Eurosport, then they would have had to increase the prices for their services by 2 euros per month, not just 2 LEI, a huge change.
"We lost several hundred customers with the abandonment of the Eurosport and Discovery channels from our program grid. If we had kept the contract with them at the price level they requested, the price increase would not have been two lei, but two euros. Why should we raise the prices of our customers by two euros, it makes no sense. Ultimately, what is more important: to give up a few hundred customers on our services or to raise the price?"
Telekom has given up all the stations of the Discovery group since January 1, 2020, and Eurosport is the one that the customers wanted the most, but in the absence of an agreement between the two groups, a dispute has been reached. Both those from Telekom and those from Discovery are caught in a war of declarations, and both accuse each other of statements that are not real, but the German group suggests that the prices of the new licenses would have been very high in relation to the old.
Telekom: IMPORTANT announcement regarding Eurosport and Discovery
Telekom is accused by those from Discovery of having lied regarding the increase in license prices, and this because they would have actually offered them more content at the same price, The statement is extremely interesting in the conditions in which the at Telekom they made it clear from the very beginning that the dispute is about an increase in the licensing prices of the Discovery group's channels, but in reality it would seem that it is about something else entirely.
"We are once again surprised by the statements made recently by Telekom. Discovery has not requested a fare increase. We gave Telekom more valuable content without a price increase – an example being the new rights to the ATP Circuit on Eurosport. We are sorry that Telekom subscribers have lost access to the Premier League, the Grand Slam Tournaments, the Summer Olympics on Eurosport, to shows such as Cars on Choices, Megastructures with Richard Hammond on the Discovery Channel."
Telekom is in a very delicate situation, his public statements regarding Discovery being contradicted every time by the group that says something completely opposite, and the clients are caught in the middle. It is possible that Telekom paid more money for the Discovery licenses than it brought in from the television subscriptions, and gave up for this reason, blaming the partner company, although in reality everything comes down to its calculations that no longer come out.
Telekom had announced that he wants to make a profit from all the services he offers in Romania, and giving up the Discovery channels is part of his initiative to put profit above his clients.
