ahardie

Very odd to see some posters jumping to Sky's defence here. The competition commission has said that they are overcharging us customers. Should we think that is a good thing? Bringing VM in to it is just trying to put up a smoke screen. If they are doing the same then the competition commission should investigate them as well. The fact they aren't is for a good reason I believe. In fact I think VM's network was previously investigated an found not to be any threat to competition for obvious reasons.
Now back to why a few posters are supporting Sky on this. Why would they? Sky are overcharging us. If a customer posted that VM was overcharging him would we just tell him that's hard luck.
One poster above uses the excuse that we are in a capitalist society. What a strange defence. The whole thing about a capitalist system is that competition is meant to be a good thing. That is why we have a competition commission. The fact is that we should be thankful there is a competition commission and instead of criticising we should be defending our own consumer interests. A system free of competition is a communist one not capitalist.
There are two things they could do to stop us customers being ripped off. They could force Sky to reduce prices. Or better still they should make it so that there were no exclusive rights on movies and then we could see companies like Amazon/Lovefilm coming in to the frame. I don't see why the same movies can't be available from different companies, ondemand for instance, then we will have choice and the prices would drop.
I think a bit more consideration of our own interests and a lot less for a big company operating a monopoly and ripping us off are in order here.