Originally Posted by TheDon

It's not unfair to expect them to charge a fair market price for the services, and to offer equivalent services to those that they themselves offer.

Them being able to charge anything they want limits consumer choice, and is bad not just for non-sky customers but also their own. Competition drives down prices, and competition can only thrive in an environment where all providers have access to the premium content at competitive pricing.

That no one other than Sky can offer their channels in HD, or with the red button is an obvious case of abusing a dominant market position by non-price discrimination, and it doesn't matter how much they invested on those services, they should still be offered to other carriers of the channels on a rate that allows them to offer them to their customers at a competitive price.