Absolutely. Sky has been told to sell its stake in ITV (and, when it gives up moaning and trying to appeal, will have to do so at a massive financial loss seeing as their shares have nosedived since they bought them), and Sky had to come crawling back to Virgin with a new deal over the Sky Basics.
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Er, take to court? On what grounds.
I think the monopolies and mergers commission would have something to say about Sky buying Virgin.
It would also be very bad for competition whether Sky had access to the cable network or if they owned it.
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Indeed. If Sky aren't allowed to hold 17% of ITV on competition grounds, they'll never be allowed to buy Virgin Media.