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m419 · 31-03-2010, 19:52

I'm sorry but Sky were the ones that invested 'so heavily' in sports, nobody told them to do that, and in this country we do not permit monopolies,so if they don't like it tough! They can take there Sky dishes and there over rated HD boxes together with there repeating channels back to Fox and take a hard long look in the mirror, because the prices they are charging people is disgusting, don't they realise people aren't as rich as them!

Besides, it may help themselves in the long run to lower wholsesale costs, if they lower the cost,more people will subscribe and what happens when a channels gets more 'potential' viewers? More TV commercials ect... which means fast money.

A clear example of this was seen when the Sky basic channels were switched off on Virgin Media, since they have been reinstated, the prices TV advertisers pay would have gone up since an extra 3 to 4 Million potential viewers can see the ads.

A monopoly? Imagine if BT held the same position over its phone service, imagine if BT had exclusive rights for offering calls to mobiles from landlines making it impossible for other phone companies to offer the same facility,i'm sure nobody would put up with that, well why should people put up with a dominant pay-tv company???

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m419 Inactive Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Services: BT Broadband,BT Anytime calls,Sky entertainment extra HD,Vodafone pay monthly Posts: 1,512	Re: OFCOM ready to rule? I'm sorry but Sky were the ones that invested 'so heavily' in sports, nobody told them to do that, and in this country we do not permit monopolies,so if they don't like it tough! They can take there Sky dishes and there over rated HD boxes together with there repeating channels back to Fox and take a hard long look in the mirror, because the prices they are charging people is disgusting, don't they realise people aren't as rich as them! Besides, it may help themselves in the long run to lower wholsesale costs, if they lower the cost,more people will subscribe and what happens when a channels gets more 'potential' viewers? More TV commercials ect... which means fast money. A clear example of this was seen when the Sky basic channels were switched off on Virgin Media, since they have been reinstated, the prices TV advertisers pay would have gone up since an extra 3 to 4 Million potential viewers can see the ads. A monopoly? Imagine if BT held the same position over its phone service, imagine if BT had exclusive rights for offering calls to mobiles from landlines making it impossible for other phone companies to offer the same facility,i'm sure nobody would put up with that, well why should people put up with a dominant pay-tv company???