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Old 08-08-2012, 22:14   #71
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Re: Sky Sports pricing dispute: appeal ruling looms

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Originally Posted by LexDiamond View Post
That is correct.

Basically Sky won. But not for the reasons they contested. Ofcom was wrong to begin with. Sky had no justification to fight the appeal on the grounds they did. But too many people jumped on the bandwagon and thought Sky had lost, while ignoring the bigger picture and the fact that Sky had nothing to answer in the first place.

It seems a bit silly to me that Sky can be judged to be wrong when they had nothing to answer in the first place!
I think basically Sky lost. The court said Ofcom was wrong to begin with but that Ofcom still have the right to tell Sky to reduce their prices.
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