Australian TV Survivor: does Foxtel face elimination as streaming giants gang up?

The partnership announced last month between Fetch TV and Metrological was big news. Fetch could now have access to a massive app store of TV apps through this deal.

It is getting harder and harder for Foxtel to compete on so many fronts.

Some 800,000 people use Fetch’s set top boxes with Fetch’s technology arguably superior. The firmware on the Mini and Mighty set top boxes is regularly updated and they have release notes, unlike Foxtel which discouraged the practice by shutting down the Foxtel Community Forums. The Foxtel Fans Facebook group is a poor substitute.

Its movie channel package is being disrupted by Netflix, Stan, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ & Apple TV+. Foxtel won’t put a Foxtel Go app on Apple TV or a lot of other…