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Optus Sport

Optus Sport

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Optus Sport
1.3

306 reviews

Positive vs Negative
3%97%
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Value for Money
1.2
Rates and Fees
1.3
306 reviews
1  Monte S.  · Obscene amount of ads that you are paying to watch. It really is ridiculous
1  Jacob H.  · Rubbish quality all the time, not matter the connection. Genuinely hope they lose the EPL rights or go bankrupt
1  Marty  · Absolute s**t cannot watch live games as it freezes every 10 seconds so very very annoying!!!
1  Michael  · Optus Sport garbage, poor streaming, many technical problems, NO Customer contact service, please please someone take over EPL rights.
2  Andrew H.  · $25 AUD per month to watch adverts. Mmmm no thanks Optus
1  Mohamed  · It's funny that we have to watch advertisements for a paid subscription.
Jen
Jen VIC 4 posts
 

Ridiculous since it’s shut down, they cannot refund upfront subscription straight to the payment sour certain but have to send a CHEQUE that’s only going to be mail up to 8 weeks Ridiculous of a joke you couldn’t go to an Optus store to request the refund but only via email. Terrible company

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Craig M.
Craig M. QLD 9 posts
 

The football coverage was OK but the service was poor. But then i wanted to cancel. What a horrible experience! I still have not managed to cancel and now I am overseas for an extended period and they tell me I can not access from overseas! So, I can't access to watch anything and I can't cancel. So I pay 24.99 a month for what? Show details

Craig M.
Craig M.   

It continues with Optus. They have done their best to prevent me closing my Optus Sport account.… Read more

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Logan
Logan 2 posts
 

Offered me 3 months free as a retention offer, but then charged me $24.99 after 1 month anyway. When contacting them for a refund, they said they couldn't access my account and refused to help. Completely useless, don't bother with these scam merchants.

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Darz M.
Darz M. VIC 3 posts
 

Optus sport and Samsung tv – We have a 7yo 84" Samsung tv which is no longer compatible with Optus Sport because Optus Sport has not provided a license to Samsung for TV's 7 years or older WTH!!

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Pete
Pete QLD 14 posts
 

Zero star review - False advertising. Optus Sport not offering $6.99/mth deal for Optus home internet customers – Absolutely hopeless. I am an Optus home broadband customer (the speed is as claimed) and I want to buy Optus Sport for $6.99/mth, as advertised. According to Subhub (which can more accurately described as substandard), I am not eligible. Optus support, Optus Sport and my local store have no idea how to fix this. Totally useless, poorly trained… Read more

staff and hopeless systems. The Optus Sport support person said they couldn't fix it and said I should contact an Optus store. Gave me the Sydney George St store number to call and they flatly refused to help. Perhaps unsurprising, as I live in QLD. My local Optus store (Nambour) also refuses to help with Optus Sport queries. "Chat with Optus" was the unhelpful advice. You couldn't make this stuff up. I have wasted hours trying to get help. As a multi billion $ and multinational organisation Optus should be ashamed of themselves.

Pete
Pete   

Now fixed. A shame I had to go public get some sense out of Optus.

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Jonathan M.
Jonathan M. NSW 2 posts
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The worst paid for service there is – Optus sport is a joke. For a start it's premium and yet you still get spammed with adverts even before watching a quick highlights game. Also the timer for the ads ending often goes to zero and the ads just carry on. Frames per second is too low so quality of the picture is not great ...long passes see the ball flicker. And the app is hopeless, it… Read more

often crashes. You can't easily scrub thru a video it's 10 seconds forward or about 15 minutes, nothing in-between. Several times I've had games spooled because rather than start over during a live game it's gone to the live footage. Seriously this product is an embarrassment. Do better Optus. Update: Content of adverts has hit a new low: on top of spamming endless gambling ads, we now get ads from Scientology!! I kid you not. Optus, now happy to platform a cult.

Jonathan M.
Jonathan M.   

So great to see this fail

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ETU
ETU
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Worst app ever for sport – The worst app ever for sport. Illegal streams have better quality. The game sometimes never load. Just come up with error A01 When it does work the picture quality is often so bad. You can’t read the time or the score of games. You couldn’t read the team names either but they’ve enlarged the names this season!! When you do watch a game it… Read more

often buffers. Sometimes it will just stop buffering. You need to leave the mobile app and reboot it. The app then forgets where you watched up to on the replay. There’s no timer on the forward or rewind scroll. Just a total length time. So you need to guess roughly where you got up too. This can sometimes ruin games when you unknowingly scroll too far.

I’ve been in contact with support. That even crashes sometimes too. I’ve done all they asked without improvement. Disable VPN, clear cookies, reinstall app, log out and in, power cycle the mobile device, change mobile device.

The only thing I can’t do is change the internet network. But my friends are watching NRL, AFL & UFC on the same network and have no issues at all (Different apps). Sometimes they’re watching at the exact same time whilst I can’t even load it up. It’s the same issues every weekend.

Avoid using Optus Sports on a mobile device at all costs.

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kristin
kristin VIC 18 posts
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Buffering and blury when zoomed in – I paid for optus sport to watch Fifa womans world cup and it keeps buffering and going blury. Absolutely overpriced for terrible quality. I'm now trying to watch the replay of Norway vs Japan and its zoomed in that much, that I can't watch it. Perfect on the free 7 plus app so I just canceled my subscription Show details

Positive reviews

Sean W.
Sean W. 2 posts
 

Amazing app – Amazing quality and large variety of sports and shows, highly recommend.

Tina
Tina NSW 3 posts
 

Best soccer platform in Australia – Fantastic quality, tons of women’s soccer, always uploads replays fast unlike Paramount. Never has playability issues on my tv unlike other apps. Love it.

Cecilia A.
Cecilia A.
 

Great coverage of the Women's world cup 2023 – I thoroughly enjoyed the coverage of the WWC. Excellent pre/post game analyses and good commentating during most of the games. The kids enjoyed watching the shortened games and highlights.

Negative reviews

Ben T.
Ben T.
 

why the hell does so many replays of the other match that i’m not watching come on and half the time it isn’t even a goal it’s a just a close miss or a tackle it’s so painful if i cared about that game i would have it on also why does it show the prem table all the time they should only show it when it changes i can’t believe no adult at optus had the common sense to figure this out

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Pratik
Pratik 2 posts
 

terrible user experience. Cannot understand why a company with so much resources and money cannot make the app sensible and easy to use. For eg: I try to find the 9-min highlights of a particular EPL game ...there is a clear MATCH CENTRE thumbnail and could be safe to assume the options could be in there. but NOOO!!! For some unknown reason the 9-minute highlights are lumped in with the rest of the "Highlights" amongst all the other 200 games.

yacobassadi
yacobassadi QLD
 

Seriously has to be one of the worst streaming platforms available. Half the features dont work, the streams are terrible quality most of the time, and the price for what is really provided is ludicrous. Awful, awful service. You may as well just use Totalsportek lol

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Alan
Alan NSW 2 posts
 

You should get with the program and read your reviews. Customers don’t like being ripped off. We choose to pay for a service so we don’t have adverts, but you choose to double dip, that’s unfair and disgraceful..

George D
George D NSW
 

Slow to load, freezes often, keeps stopping to load, too many ads, etc. How can this be in today's and age? We used to be able to watch football games at double or other speeds but that feature was removed. Time for Optus to upgrade.

John S.
John S. VIC 59 posts
 

The app does not work on my TCL google TV, trying to get any help from their “ customer “ support is laughable , none of them have no idea, they transfer you to another area who ask the same questions and still have no idea, repeat repeat, time to cancel and hope STAN buy this excuse for a streaming service.

John
John VIC
 

I paid $148 for a 12 month subscription. I have made numerous complaints to optus Sport and despite them promising to get to the bottom of it I have not been able to watch a single minute since December. Very poor service. They only get 1 star because the system doesn't allow zero stars.

Mark N.
Mark N. NSW 3 posts
 

Such a bad picture, stutter and blurry. Framerate and resolution are obviously too low, especially for sports. I'm on a fibre connection so no excuses regarding internet speed.

fool
fool 3 posts
 

Crap service – My optus sports has stopped working on my tv and trying to speak to someone or get any help is impossible so I have had to cancel it. How companies this poor are allowed to be the only company that has exclusive control over these services is beyond belief, optus in general has very poor service so what can you expect but we have been advised to give the ombudsman a go.

FromJoy
FromJoy VIC 7 posts
 

GARBAGE – Shocking quality. Cannot believe that in 2025 paying for a streaming service to be downscaled to a botched 1080p, when sky original broadcast is in bloody 4k. The ads and banners are the cream on the top. GARBAGE

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Andrew Bruce
Andrew Bruce 4 posts
 

Total frustration – I pay $26p/m for Optus sport as an avid supporter and fan of the EPL in Australia. I have no other option as Optus hold the rights to the EPL Contract I cannot even watch a 60min highlights show due to constant buffering on our network Iprimus, glitches & freezes and has to be reset from the beginning when cast to smart tv either living room or… Read more

bedroom Glitches and buffering and freezes and cancels on laptop devices and even on iPhone I am with Telstra and need this network because I work in remote locations that Optus doesn’t cover . Heaven forbid I actually try to watch a match I don’t have this issue with BeIn sport or Stan UCL Which is far cheaper than the $26p/m I’m forced to pay Optus for a ridiculously poor service It is that bad and frustrating I’m considering canceling my subscription and have no EPL at all . I don’t even care about all your adds I just want a coverage that doesn’t glitch or freeze then cancel and be told it’s my problem

Andrew Bruce
Andrew Bruce   

I was with foxtel for 10yrs and canceled my subscription due to them losing the EPL coverage. They… Read more

Pillay
Pillay 25 posts
 

Expensive and frustrating due to all the ads! – Streams are inconsistent with far too many ads. Rewind or forward during a show and you get more ads, it's just do frustrating when you are already paying a hefty subscription fee. It's just not good enough Optus!

Levi R.
Levi R.
 

Horrible doesn’t quite cut it – Easily the most atrocious streaming service I’ve ever come across. Can’t watch a game without it constantly buffering or dropping in quality. The worst part is Optus have the rights to the epl until 2028. Honestly might just watch a different sport. My eyes hurt from watching the poor quality, I feel as though this will speed up bad eyesight in the long run. I will sue these incompetent frauds for every penny they have.

Jimmy D
Jimmy D
 

Premium price for ads ads and more ads – Like others have stated,, ads ads and more ads!! Adding to the fact that the quality keeps dropping out, despite my internet connection being excellent and having no issues with other streaming platforms. Optus couldn't care less about its customers by extorting people by paying for a phone plan, plus Optus sport all because they know they can… Read more

because they have exclusive PL rights.

I'd never be with Optus for phone or internet and lucky I love my premier league otherwise I'd drop this service like a hot potato

Michael Hare
Michael Hare VIC 2 posts
 

Endless Ads ruin the viewing – No other service makes me so angry and frustrated, endless Advertisements. shrieking female commentators and dubbed crowd noises, every season I hope that they will lose the contract.

juff4711
juff4711
 

Less leagues, more to pay – Prices gone up this year via subhub, but no La Liga?? Price should have come down without the likes of Barcelona, and. the Madrid sides on show. Ridiculous

Phil Aitch
Phil Aitch SA 4 posts
 

Better resolution highlights free on YouTube – Better resolution highlights free on YouTube, not worth the big price hike this year.

Santanás
Santanás 16 posts
 

Rubbish and Unethical company – So, I asked them to delete my account and erase my data. After trying to contact them a million times, I finally got to talk to one of their lying customer service reps. After arguing with them for ages and threatening to take them to court, they promised to delete my account and stop sending me marketing emails and texts. But guess what? Three… Read more

months later, I got a marketing text from them! And there's no way to stop them from sending me more. Optus is an unethical company in any of its form, RUBBISH, DISGUSTING business practices. STAY AWAY FROM THIS IDIOTS...

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