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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
On the other hand BT were publically owned and given a natural monopoly at the time of privatisation, Sky have never been publically owned. The reason for BT's regulation is, and has always been, that they were at one time a publically owned company and were provided significant market power .
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But all BT's investment in broaddand was as a private company and there are other examples of markets being investigated e.g. supermarkets, banks where accusations of monolopolys or price fixing were made.