[andy_m]

I have no problem with suppliers keeping certain things exclusively to themselves-if they all offered the same services then all they'd have to compete on would be price. The phrase "race to the bottom" has been heavily used in recent days, but when companies compete on price it's inevitable that quality suffers.

The fact is that Virgin and Sky primarily offer their customers different things, after all, it's not like Virgin have allowed Sky to resell their broadband, is it.