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Originally Posted by richard1960
The way it works looks like sky charge x and ofcom say its got to be minus for vm and bt which means they can charge less for sky sports/movies then sky currently does,which means in order to keep prices for its own customers to the same sky then has to reduce their price for its own customer base for sky sports,so skys own subs could benefit.
Thereby helping skys own subscribers to cut costs,not saying i agree with this but ofcom will have figures the public did not have access to (as the figures were blacked out on pay tv enquirey documents i saw online)
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How does this help Sky's customers?
If Sky have to charge VM / BT less than they charge their customers by x%, retail minus, then dropping the prices to their own customers simply means they have to drop the prices to Virgin and BT as well. They aren't going to drop their own customers' prices so that they can charge VM and BT less as well.
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I would love to see a price reduction on Sky, I have a multi room with Sky, and it is nearly £80.00 per month, I also have VM especially for the free ESPN channel and phone line etc, and l pay 50.00 and l have two boxes. BUT we did have mutli room on VM at the same price.
IF Sky reduced the price in line with all the others, then there would be good compitition and customers could then choose what is the best service to choose.
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This would not produce any kind of price reduction for Sky customers Arthur. Have another read of it all.
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Originally Posted by carbon60
What does that graph actually describe?
This graph http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ion_income.png shows the total number of subscribers steadily going up.
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It's about eye balls on screens and the channels they are watching. There are more channels to watch than before and Sky's content is getting less viewers than before.
Yes Sky continue to gain subscribers however their share of the DTV market continues to drop due to Freeview and Freesat primarily.
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Originally Posted by zantarous
I used be a part of the why should sky seller stuff to the competition for cheaper as the made the investment but have come to this conclusion, all manufactures sell at a whole sale price to retailers, Pay TV should be no exception to this. After all Virgin and BT are selling a service that Sky make money form and they too should be able to make some money from it as well.
I think we need to take a look at the US model where content is much more freely available and you chose your cable or satellite company on price rather then what channels they maybe able to carry.
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Content is available, just as Sky's content is available, however the price for carriage of the channels is individually negotiated between content provider and broadcaster.