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Originally Posted by Stuart C
I personally don't understand why the government stopped Sky taking their premium services, but ignored the basic services. Surely any protection for competitions sake should apply to ALL channels?
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A cockup?
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Actually, one point to make here. Apart from their editing and uplink facilities, Sky don't own or operate a network. SES own the Astra satellite, and the dishes/boxes are owned by the consumer. This is one reason Sky have always been able to stay ahead of NTL with minimum investment in facilites (not including broadband here).
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This is where Sky scores in terms of the business model.. and of course most of the investment that it made on the ground ends up being charged back to the consumer.
There's no reason (apart from capacity, I don't know) why Virgin Media couldn't rent bandwidth on the Astra system. That would liven things up a bit!