I don’t like watching TV…but I love football. When I heard Sky were releasing a mobile sports and news player I almost peed my pants. Then I found out it’s only available to people in the UK…I almost pooped my pants in anger and disappointment. So I set off on a google-aided journey to find a way to create a union between my love for Manchester United Football Club and my Irish internet using iPhone 3G. Needless to say, with a little help from google, and a bit off common sense, I worked it out.

A fair few fellow footy (a lot of f’s there) lovers in Ireland with iPhones have since asked me for a how to, and while I’m more than happy to spread this gospel, writing this seems more efficient. BEWARE this will take you a minimum of 30 mins…Trust me, stick with it, it works…and once you’re up and running, it’s easy street and you can watch live footy from the palm of your hand, silently ignoring your friends and family.

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1. go into iTunes/iTunes store. Sign out of your current account. Go to the bottom of the store and change your iTunes store region to UK. In the Store, search for the Facebook app (or any free app) and select to download it. A pop-up screen will appear. Select ‘Create new iTunes account’. Proceed to create a UK iTunes account, you will have the option to select ‘none’ when it asks for Credit Card details (because you chose a free product earlier). Make up any address you like in the UK. You will only need a valid email address (that isn’t already being used by another iTunes account.

2. in your iPhone go to Settings/Store and sign out. Sign back in with your new UK iTunes account

3. Open App Store on your iPhone. Search for ’sky mobile tv’ app and download it.

4.  go back to Settings/Store and sign out. Sign back in with your normal iTunes account.

5. open the Sky Mobile TV app and click ‘register for sky id’ (unless you already have a sky id.

6. go back into the app and now select ‘login and register’. Login with your new id, and use a credit card to subscribe to the £6 a month fee.

7. This part is very important. This is what tricks the app into thinking you are using your phone from within the UK. go to www.12vpn.com – create an account and sign up for 6months or a year VPN(Virtual Private Network) subscription service. Once you have done that and have your 12vpn username and password, you are ready for the next step.

8. in iPhone go to Settings/General/Network/VPN/Add VPN Configuration. Fill in as follows:

Type: PPTP

Description: call whatever you like

Server: uk.12vpn.com

Account: your 12vpn username

RSA SecureID: Off

Password: your 12vpn password

Encryption Level: Auto

Send all Traffic: ON

Proxy: Off

Save

Toggle the VPN to see if you’ve typed everything in right (it will return an error if you’ve inserted your information in wrong) You know your in business if you see the VPN icon appear along the top of your iPhone beside your carrier and wifi icons.

9. make sure wifi and your VPN are both on. Now enter the Sky Mobile tav app again. Login with your Sky ID.

Enjoy