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Originally Posted by Downloads
You can't compare 2 different systems which cost completely different amounts of money to get up and running. If they forced Virgin to open it up this country would never get anywhere as there is no incentive for anyone to ever invest anymore. That would hurt the consumer more long term.
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It depends on how you clarify 'open', though. I think being open in the fact that they cannot discriminate against a channel, channels or a provider would be good. Otherwise, you end up in a situation where channels can be blocked from appearing on the network purely because it might provide competition or because of personal reasons. This is different in being open in regards to a free for all and giving away control of their network, which I think would be a bad thing. On the other hand, I think the first to some degree, with a certain amount of regulation, could perhaps be a good thing.