Moving across
Switching IPTV provider
Switching sounds like a migration and is nothing of the sort. There is no account to port, no settings file to hand over and no remaining balance anybody can carry across, because a subscription is access sold by one business and nothing else. What you are really doing is starting something fresh while an old arrangement runs down, and the whole skill lies in the timing.
Nothing technical comes with you. A new subscription is a new service: fresh credentials, a fresh twelve months at €59, €89 or €119 depending on screens, and a channel list you arrange once and then forget about. What does travel with you is the hardware you already own, the line into the house, and a year of knowing exactly what your household watches. Run the two services side by side for a few days, test the thing that failed last time, and start near the end of your existing term so the overlap costs days rather than months.
Pick the screen count, not a contract
One payment, twelve months, and no card held afterwards — so if this turns out not to suit you either, leaving takes no more effort than arriving did.
What a switch actually consists of
A subscription is permission to watch, delivered as a set of credentials against one operator. There is no portable identity underneath it and no standard anyone agreed on, so there is nothing to move in the way a phone number moves between networks. Every part of what you are leaving stays where it is, and every part of what you are joining is created new. Say that plainly and the rest of the decision becomes much simpler, because it stops being a transfer to be managed and becomes a purchase to be judged.
Which leaves the only genuine question: which plan to arrive on. Screens are the only variable, so pick the count your household actually collides at rather than repeating whatever you were sold before. One screen suits a home where nobody competes. Two screens is where most arrivals settle. Three screens is for houses that already know they watch separately. If you guess low you can move up mid-term for the difference alone, which is set out under changing plan, and every figure is on the price list before you speak to anybody.
The thing that does carry across is worth more than any of it: you now know what your household actually watches. A year with a service teaches you which channels get used, which evenings are busy, how many streams your house really needs and where the picture broke. That knowledge makes you a far better buyer the second time, and it is the reason a switcher should ask sharper questions than a first-timer ever does.
A brief overlap is the single most useful habit in switching, and hardly anybody bothers. Keep the old subscription alive, add the new one alongside it as a second profile in the same player, and for a few evenings run the same programme on both. You are not testing whether a service works. You are testing whether it works on your television, on your line, at the hours you actually watch, on the material you actually care about.
That last clause is where most comparisons go wrong. A stream sampled at two on a Tuesday afternoon tells you nothing, because nothing is under load at two on a Tuesday. The honest test is a weekend evening with live sport running, or one of the big fight nights when everybody is watching the same thing at the same moment. If a service holds up then, it will hold up on a wet weekday. If it only holds up on the wet weekday, you have learned that too, and for the price of a few days rather than a year.
Keep the comparison honest in one more respect. Same device, same room, same connection, ideally the same programme. Judging the new service on a phone over patchy wireless against the old one on a wired television is not a comparison, it is a coin toss with extra steps. Where you need to rule the network in or out, the setup guide covers wiring a set properly and what a stream needs from a line before any of this is anybody else's fault.
+ more First, the specific channels you watch — not a headline count of thousands, which nobody has ever exhausted, but the six or seven you personally put on. Ask about them by name before paying and get the answer in writing; the line-up is published for exactly that reason. Second, behaviour under load, which the overlap above is designed to expose. Third, your actual device: whatever is in your living room now, since a service that needs you to buy a new box has quietly added to its own price.
Fourth, how the desk behaves before it has your money. Ask something specific and awkward and time the reply. Somebody who answers a stranger carefully at ten at night is telling you what support will feel like in month seven, and somebody who answers with pressure and a countdown is telling you the same thing in the other direction. Fifth, the shape of the commitment: does the term end on its own, is there a published position on refunds, and is anything being kept on file afterwards.
That fifth check is the one switchers under-weight, usually because they are focused on picture quality and channel lists. It is also the one that decides whether you can leave cleanly next year if this seller disappoints you too. What to look for in the answer is set out on the safety page, and the position here is written down in advance in the refund policy rather than produced during an argument.
Our twelve months against the two things people usually compare it to
Channel lists look broadly alike wherever you look. What actually differs is the shape of the commitment: how many times you are charged, what is held afterwards, and how much effort walking away takes.
| ★ Clearest terms IPTVSubscribe | Unnamed IPTV sellers | Cable and satellite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per month across the year | €4.92 | €4–14 | €45–80 |
| Times you are charged in a year | Once | Twelve or more | Twelve, plus add-ons |
| Card left on file afterwards | None held | Usually held | Held as standard |
| Renews without being asked | Never | Often | Automatically |
| Price readable before contact | Quote in chat only | Intro rate only | |
| Sport and the big fight nights | Inside the year | Charged again | Extra bundle |
| True 4K rather than upscaled SD | Rare | Top tier only | |
| Holds together on a busy evening | Drops out | Throttled | |
| Runs on kit you already own | Some of it | Their box, rented | |
| Gap between joining and watching | About 5 minutes | Whenever they reply | An installation date |
| Minimum term you are tied to | None | None | 12–24 months |
| What leaving involves | Doing nothing at all | Chasing a stranger | A retention call |
One figure, and it buys the lot: every channel, the sport as it happens, the ticketed fight nights, the whole on-demand shelf. There is no equipment on loan, no feature held back for a dearer tier, and no forgotten renewal date waiting to take another payment in month eleven.
What moves with you, and what stays behind
Six things people assume they are bringing across. Two of them genuinely travel, one travels whether you want it to or not, and the rest are simply rebuilt.
| What you might expect to bring | Does it come with you? | Why | What to do instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| The months left on your old subscription | No | Two unrelated businesses hold two unrelated ledgers. Nobody can credit time somebody else was paid for. | Time the move so the overlap is measured in days rather than seasons. |
| Your username and password | No | Credentials are issued against one operator and mean nothing outside it. | Expect a fresh login in the chat, normally within minutes of a cleared payment. |
| Favourites, ordering and the layout you built | No | That arrangement lives in your player, tied to the specific list it was built against. | Rebuild it once. It takes a few minutes and most people trim half of it while they are there. |
| The app, the stick, the box, the television | Yes | The hardware is yours and the common players are not tied to any one seller. | Add the new details as a second profile before deleting the old one, so nothing is lost mid-test. |
| Your broadband line, and its limits | Yes, and it decides more than the seller does | A line that could not hold a stream in April will not hold one in May under a new name. | Test the line first. A wired television that behaves while a wireless one stutters has answered the question. |
| Whatever actually went wrong last time | Only if you never check for it | People switch over one specific failure and then buy the next year without testing that exact thing. | Write the fault down before you shop, and make it the first thing you try on the new service. |
The final row is the one worth reading twice. A switch made for one specific reason, without ever testing that specific reason afterwards, is how people end up doing this again in eleven months.
The extra tiers add screens. They do not add channels.
One screen or three, the library sitting behind the login is identical. Nothing is held back for a sport add-on, no channel pack appears halfway through, and nobody messages in month six suggesting an upgrade. There is also no stored card with a renewal date pencilled against it, because there is no stored card.
- Around 28,000 live channels, European and English-language alike
- 300,000 or so films and complete series, restocked every week
- Live sport and the pay-per-view nights, already inside the year
- True 4K next to Full HD and HD, never SD stretched to fill a screen
- A guide that works, with catch-up across the busier channels
- Servers built for peak load, published uptime of 99.9%
- Smart TVs, Apple TV, a Fire TV Stick, iPhone, Android, Mac and PC
- The login lands within minutes of the funds clearing
- One charge for twelve months — nothing is ever taken automatically
- Refund terms written out and readable before you commit
The timing, which is the whole of the money
Everything above is judgement. This part is arithmetic, and it is where switchers lose the most. Buying a fresh twelve months while eight months of an existing subscription sit unused means you have paid two people for the same period, and nothing about the new service being better recovers it. The overlap should be days. If your current term has months to run and it is merely disappointing rather than broken, the sensible move is usually to wait, keep watching what you paid for, and make the change as the end date approaches.
A few days of overlap is a test. Eight months of overlap is a donation, and it is being made to the seller you have already decided to leave.
Broken is a different case, and it deserves a different answer. Where the old service has genuinely stopped working, waiting out the remainder is just paying to be annoyed. Put the fault to that seller in writing first, give them a fair chance to fix it, and find out what their published refund position actually says — that written trail is also what your card issuer or PayPal will want if you end up disputing the charge. Then move, and treat whatever cannot be recovered as the cost of learning what to check next time.
One more piece of timing worth mentioning, because it is the reason a great many people never get to choose. If the old subscription keeps a card on file, it can renew itself while you are busy comparing, and you will be locked into another year of the thing you were trying to leave. Deal with that first, well ahead of the date. Nothing of that kind exists here: a term only continues if you ask it to, and leaving requires no action at all, which is the whole point of building it this way.
Three complaints send people shopping when they should be sending them somewhere else. The first is buffering that follows you from device to device, which is nearly always the line or the wireless hop rather than the seller. Run a wire to one television and watch the problem disappear, and you have saved yourself a year of paying somebody new for an identical experience. The second is a single missing channel, which is often a question nobody thought to ask rather than a gap that cannot be filled.
The third is the one this site sees most often: a stream shortage mistaken for a bad service. A household on a single screen, where two people watch separately three evenings a week, will experience a perfectly good subscription as a broken one. That is a plan problem with a two-minute fix and a partial-year price, described in full under changing your plan, and switching does not solve it because the same shortage arrives with the new seller.
There are two reasons that do justify moving, and they are worth naming so this reads as advice rather than reassurance. One is a service that stopped working and a seller that stopped answering, where no amount of patience helps. The other is a commitment you cannot get out of — a stored card, a rolling charge, a cancellation route that exists in theory. If the way out is the problem rather than the picture, then yes, leave, and make the way out one of the things you check before buying anything again.
Moving across, step by step
Four steps, spread over a week rather than an afternoon. The order matters more than the speed, and the first step is the one everybody skips.
The fault, the hours it happened, the channels involved, the device it happened on. One paragraph. It becomes your test list rather than a vague sense of dissatisfaction.
WhatsApp or Telegram. Put your list to the desk, name the channels, and see how the answers arrive. The whole ordering sequence is on the ordering guide.
Same room, same set, same programme where you can manage it. Include one busy night, because that is the only session that proves anything.
If it ends by itself, do nothing and let the date arrive. If a card is stored somewhere, remove the arrangement now rather than trusting yourself to remember in October.
Questions from people moving across
Keep reading
Check your channels first
The list to read before you pay anybody, including the six you personally watch.
See the line-up →Picking a screen count
How to size the plan to the household, and what moving up mid-year costs.
Change your plan →What year two looks like
Why nothing continues on its own here, and what happens as the twelfth month arrives.
Renewing →Leaving again, if it comes to that
The exit you should have checked before buying, described before you need it.
How to stop →Judging an unfamiliar seller
What a legitimate operation puts in writing, and the pressure tactics worth walking away from.
Read the checks →Getting it running
Devices, players and the wired test that settles most buffering arguments for good.
Read the setup guide →What a twelve-month subscription actually commits you to
Pick the number of screens, settle the year in one go, and read the login back in the same chat a few minutes later. Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or cryptocurrency — and once it clears, nothing of yours stays behind on file.
- The figure is published before anything is asked of you
- One charge for the year, never taken automatically
- Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or cryptocurrency
- The login arrives minutes after the funds clear
- Around 28,000 live channels and 300,000 on demand
- Live sport and the big fight nights carry no surcharge
- Up to 4K on Firestick, smart TVs, Apple TV and phones
- A named person to chase the day something stops working
≈ €4.92/mo · one charge · it lapses at month twelve unless you ask for another year
Three messages, one chat window, and the year is under way
There is no contract to sign, no account to create and no direct debit to authorise. You say how many screens the household needs, the desk sends the total, and the login comes back in the same thread. What begins there runs for twelve months and then simply stops.
Twelve months in, here is how it went
Notes from households in Ireland, the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States, all of them about the parts that only show up over time: what the year actually delivered, what happened at month twelve, and how leaving or staying was handled.
Month twelve came and nothing happened
That was the whole test for me. The year ran out, the login stopped, and no charge appeared anywhere. I sent a message a fortnight later and started a fresh year because I wanted to, not because a reminder frightened me into it.
Changed plan in March without a fight
Started on one screen and realised by spring that two of us wanted different things on at once. One message, a small difference to make up, and the second stream was live the same afternoon. No new contract, no reset year.
They talked me out of the bigger plan
I asked for three screens and was asked, plainly, how many televisions were actually going at once. The answer was one. They sold me the smaller year instead. That is the reason I am writing this at all.
Moved across without paying twice
I had four months left with a seller who had stopped replying. They set the new year running immediately and told me not to expect anything back from the old lot. Blunt, but at least it was true.
Fifty-nine euros, one line, done
One entry on the statement for the entire year. No small monthly charge slipping past unnoticed, no card sitting on file somewhere waiting for a date. I know exactly what it cost because I only ever saw it once.
I asked how to cancel before I joined
Straight answer: let it run out and stop replying. Nobody read me a retention script or pretended there was a form somewhere. A service willing to say that out loud is one I trust with a year.
A hundred and nineteen euros for the house
Three screens, twelve months, and everybody stopped arguing over the remote. Two teenagers, a tablet, the television, and a single figure I could point at when anyone asked what it was costing us.
Broke on a Sunday, fixed on a Sunday
One channel went down mid-evening. I messaged expecting to hear back on Monday and had a working stream in under ten minutes. Support that keeps turning up for the whole year is most of what you are subscribing to.
Second year was entirely my decision
Nothing was taken between the two. I sent a message, paid the same figure again, and every favourite and setting was still exactly where I had left it. That is how renewing should feel.
No account, no password, no upsell
There is nothing to log into on the site, which unnerved me at first and then made complete sense. One conversation, one login for the players, and not a single message across the year trying to sell me a bigger tier.
Put the hard questions before you subscribe
Twelve months is long enough that guessing is a bad idea. Open a chat and ask the difficult things first: what the year actually carries, what happens if you want a different number of screens in March, what month twelve looks like, and how you stop. Use whichever of these two apps is already on your phone.
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