Sky teams with telcos for TV on the net

Movies like 'Date Night', starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell, will be available for repeat viewing throughout a fixed time period via iSky. Photo / Supplied

Sky Television has signed with internet service providers to offer customers un-metered broadband plans that will stream content from the company's new online service directly to subscribers' computers.

Yesterday Sky announced Vodafone, Orcon, Slingshot, Woosh, Xnet and Farmside had become partners with the company.

The telcos will offer plans that allow Sky subscribers as much content as they want without it eating into their monthly data allowance.

The iSky service will be free for Sky subscribers and is due to launch in December. It will accommodate both PCs and Macs.

iSky will offer customers three live sports and two live news channels, as well as delayed content from most of Sky's basic channels. It will also stream a sports highlight channel, a delayed movie channel and offer customers the option to rent movies, documentaries and TV series.

This would work in a similar manner to how it does on MySky.

A customer would have access to the movie for the specified time to watch it as often as needed, after which it would be deleted from the customer's iSky account.