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Not strictly true , VM gained access to the Sky HD channels as part of the VMTV channel sale and the Sky Sports channels were referred to OFCOM. Weres Sky Sports 3 and 4 HD and Sky Atlantic.

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am i correct in saying that us virgin customers still have to pay sky for there channels via virgin therefore sky coin a good bit of cash out the deal really.

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Sky ATLANTIC-HD is on channel 108 and Skysports 3&4HD are on channels 403/404 lol.

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There's a difference between channels, which broadcast content, and a broadband network. Virgin used to own a number of television channels before they sold them to BSkyB. Prior to that they were resold through Sky's television packages. Virgin could have chosen to restrict Bravo, for example, and only offered it through the Virgin Media cable TV platform. Some channels that are available on Sky's TV platform aren't available on Virgin Media's.

There probably wouldn't be any commercial benefit of Virgin Media deciding to open up their broadband network to anyone else, for anyone. Sky can still offer multiple broadband solutions anywhere Virgin Media can, through OpenReach.

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Great constructive reply :D

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Of course Sky get paid for their channels by Virgin Media. They don't have to give them to Virgin Media for free, allowing Virgin Media to reap 100% of the reward for that. :)

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Clearly he meant "where on Virgin Media's platform".

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Simple - there are many BB providers. There is only one provider of Sky channels.

VM do not have a monopoly on BB. Therefore no enquiry by regulators is required in regards to VM's own assets.

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Just clicked th elink in your sig, when I had vm 100mb I was getting around 102mb and a ping of 9ms, you may have a problem.

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OH IN THAT CASE.

Virgin dont have them channels.

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It's just a speedtest, to indicate that near 100Mbit is possible via Wi-Fi, and not meant to be a indication of constant and overall performance. :)

Therefore, obviously, Sky don't offer all of their channels to Virgin Media at the moment.

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If memory serves, didn't AOL offer their services over the NTL infrasturcture a number of years ago?

I'm sure if the price was right VM would happily take money from Sky, and then introduce some BB products 'exclusive' to VM customers. Imagine how all the Sky fanboys would cry foul then...

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Yes, it seems they did. Here's one article about it.

Yes, they probably would. However Sky possibly wouldn't do it, through fear of enticing their customers to switch TV product as well (i.e. from Sky TV via digital satellite to Virgin Media cable TV). AOL didn't have anything to lose and, at the time, saw a value in their online content therefore bundleing with as many broadband connections as possible made commercial sense.

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I doubt VM have the capacity to cope with Sky BB customers as there are already contention issues on the network.

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Is it me or is everyone feeding one person's ego,(not deliberately of course) in this forum of late.