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Originally Posted by muppetman11
People believe Sky shouldn't be regulated as it's a private company unlike BT , Royal Mail etc , however Microsoft in the states is a private company and look at all the times they've been regulated or made to change things ( ever noticed on Windows now you have the choice of browser to install). Sky uses it's Market position to dictate the pay tv Market.
Examples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2...t-legal-issues
Would bundling together be the case if News Corp buys 100% of Sky (Ie selling newspaper subs with Sky and vice versa.) |
Let's be quite clear BSkyB is most certainly regulated, whether that regulation should cover a wider scope is something that is worthy of discussion in my opinion, I personally wouldn't want to see any broadcaster too heavilly regulated though.