Thread: SD TV price rises
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Old 22-02-2012, 14:19   #645
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Re: TV price rises

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Originally Posted by richard1960 View Post
In unbundled areas then sky do not use any part pf the BT network? then why are they waiting for BT to roll out infinity before offering up to 40 mb speeds.
As I said above, they do use part of BT's network but not all of it. My point is they don't "just re-sell BT products", they pay a fee for the bit of network they use and sell their own products.

For Fibre they will be doing exactly the same thing, using BT infrastructure for part of the journey, as will many ISP's. However, again the product they offer will be totally different in terms of price and possibly performance.

For example, BT Infinity may move their customers onto 80MB from 40MB, but there is no guarantee Sky will do the same because it is a different product.

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Sorry if that sounds un- technical its because i am.
No need to apologise.

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All i said in my posting was both the main pay TV channel providers were concentrating on different areas which they are unless you know different.
I know nothing more than you. All I see is Sky quietly getting their ducks lined up so that they can knock out VM's USP's one by one. Eventually all they will have left is headline speed and by using BT infrastructure Sky will be able to deliver decent speeds, potentially cheaper and to a much wider geographic area than VM.

This is partly why I think price increases right now are business suicide for VM.
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