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Originally Posted by ocav
Everything you say Bomber just makes no sense. Competition law does not state what you said above, it states that you must provide fair competition.
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Yes, and it also says that you must be competitive. You cannot collude with other companies to fix prices or to get customers, so as such BT have to compete with VM as much as Sky. Competition law does not state that you shall give competitors products when you are competing with others. You have to provide Competition as you say and that means you must and can compete with all companies. So providing BT aren't being uncompetitive by either not offering a product or charging more for your product to one than another they are being competitive. BT are selling their sport channels to Sky customers on their own so they can be charged either £12 or £15, VM customers use the VM network which is private so they need to have a deal done via VM whereas Sky customers don't. This means that VM can buy wholesale from BT and get a deal similar to the one you had with ESPN. BT doesn't need to do a deal with Sky customers like that because the network or system Sky use isn't owned by Sky.