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Ignitionnet · 10-02-2011, 16:07

Please understand I'm not leaping to Sky's defence I just find the regulation horribly one-sided. It seems right now that UK regulation is geared towards providing Virgin Media content at regulated prices and access to 3rd party physical infrastructure to extend their platform to deliver that regulated price content while ensuring they can remain fully vertically integrated.

Regulating Sky's retail prices is strange, people either pay it or not and that's capitalism at work, regulating Sky's wholesale prices is more debatable given the relatively low barriers to acquiring that content and reluctance to open VM's platform.

I just want to see regulation applied equally, either light touch to all or heavy regulation to all, unsure what's wrong with that?

10-02-2011, 16:07	#37
Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 47 Posts: 13,995	Re: sky movies (excess profits) Please understand I'm not leaping to Sky's defence I just find the regulation horribly one-sided. It seems right now that UK regulation is geared towards providing Virgin Media content at regulated prices and access to 3rd party physical infrastructure to extend their platform to deliver that regulated price content while ensuring they can remain fully vertically integrated. Regulating Sky's retail prices is strange, people either pay it or not and that's capitalism at work, regulating Sky's wholesale prices is more debatable given the relatively low barriers to acquiring that content and reluctance to open VM's platform. I just want to see regulation applied equally, either light touch to all or heavy regulation to all, unsure what's wrong with that?