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Stuart · 22-03-2007, 11:24

I personally don't know if either company is playing dirty tricks.

I suspect Sky is though, mainly because I find it a little conveniant that it happened at the same time as Sky apparently tried to pull their channels from Freeview, and replace them with PayTV channels, and also apparently offered to broadcast to cable subscribers directly, thus cutting Virgin pretty much out of the picture. In both cases, more profit for Sky,

Also, had this (or even if it has) gone Sky's way and a lot of people left Cable to go to Sky, then Sky makes more profit.

In terms of Money, the best that Virgin can hope for is to maintain the Status Quo. At worst, they could (and still can) lose a lot of money.

On the other hand, if Ofcom do actually start imposing restrictions, then who knows what will happen.

22-03-2007, 11:24	#377
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: SKY VS Virgin Media I personally don't know if either company is playing dirty tricks. I suspect Sky is though, mainly because I find it a little conveniant that it happened at the same time as Sky apparently tried to pull their channels from Freeview, and replace them with PayTV channels, and also apparently offered to broadcast to cable subscribers directly, thus cutting Virgin pretty much out of the picture. In both cases, more profit for Sky, Also, had this (or even if it has) gone Sky's way and a lot of people left Cable to go to Sky, then Sky makes more profit. In terms of Money, the best that Virgin can hope for is to maintain the Status Quo. At worst, they could (and still can) lose a lot of money. On the other hand, if Ofcom do actually start imposing restrictions, then who knows what will happen.