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Originally Posted by martyh
thats a fair point ,but were do you draw the line in a free market ,too much regulation on pricing will only give us a lower quality end product
now if sky gave us shoddy sports coverage for example and still charged premium prices then i would have no problem at all with such a ruling but their service is second to none imo and as such, a premium price i feel is justified
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Thanks, without having access to documents that ofcom had in the pay tv enquirey i could not tell you how much room there is on price without a reduction in quality, the pay tv review documents were online with the margins of profit from all providers blacked out,but presumably ofcom had them and knows about pricing structures,there may be room for a small reduction,but if not i would accept what i currently pay if......
I could have access to red button interactive on sports,and the possibility for a fee obviously of subbing to HD i would not expect to get them for hardly anything.
The free market is not a bad thing for innovation but sometimes consumers do not come out very well particularly in this instance, and i would like to see ofcom redress the balance a little,though not so much as the quality of service suffers. overegulation is one thing,but not enough sometimes works the other way for consumers the tricky bit is getting the right balance.
