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Originally Posted by themelon
Yet OFCOM fail to ever take note of the monopoly that is Sky...........and that is still churning away a full speed and still getting away with it.
I dont see why Sky Should be allowed to advertise their service using channels provided by Disney and UKTV should they not have to point out that these services are also available on other platforms like Cable. To the unsuspecting idiot, Digital TV is Sky, my friend still come round to watch the football on 'Sky' despite the fact I moved to cable 2 years ago!!
And Interactive services, why are they witheld even though we pay the same amount, sureley if we are missing out on some services wholesale costs should be less and we should pay less.
Madness........OFCOM are a waste of space, always tackling issues that dont really matter, sometimes they go too far and ignore the real problems.
I think for one, BT are treated terribly by OFCOM and this makes them less likely to push new technologies as it will be judged anti competative.
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Is Sky any more of a monopoly than NTL or Telewest or are the cablecos more monopolistic? Theoretically anyone can rent a transponder on Astra and broadcast to the same customer base as Sky and be accessable to anyone with satellite receiving equipment. The same cannot be said for cable as they must have the cablecos agreement to use their networks.
Channel providers decide what should appear on their channel and who can advertise on them, not Sky. Are you saying that Sky should pay for adverts which also advertise their competitors.
I don't think that you should be going round calling your friends idiots because they come to your house to watch football on Sky. It probably was on Sky Sports anyway.
Back to the question of NTL Broadcast. Couldn't some of the broadcast masts be used to provide wireless internet access. Maybe the downstream path could be supplied by satellite with the user having a NTL digibox as part of the receiving hardware with a NTL smartcard for TV reception.