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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
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?
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Do you think then that the competition commission is biased? They are investigating Sky for a good reason and have come to a very definite conclusion. Sky are ripping us off.
Do you think it would be a good thing for instance if we could only buy dvd's from HMV? I know that isn't an exact comparison but as near as I can get. Would that situation be tolerated. Don't you think that HMV would put their prices up and start ripping everyone off? Just like Sky are doing.
I think we customers should be looking for answers not just accepting the status quo which clearly isn't working in our interests.