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Old 17-08-2018, 14:45   #72
RichardCoulter
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Re: 2018 price rises

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Originally Posted by Chloé Palmas View Post
Huh...I never knew.

If Sky wanted to be cruel I suppose that they could just refuse to sell the rights.
Sky did remove their channels from VM anout ten years ago. It would probably be viewed as anti competitive if they just removed them for no good reason, but asking for unreasonably high carriage costs to try to damage a competitor is another matter...

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Originally Posted by pip08456 View Post
I must admit I was unaware of any change.
I remember posting a thread about it at the time to alert people to the fact that Sky Sports was no longer regulated and could, in theory, be removed from VM.

I've no idea about the situation with the premium Sky movie channels though.

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Originally Posted by warrenb View Post
Yes the huge ripoff with VM is the line rental, as most people barely use the home phone but have to take it to get the bundle price
It used to be the case that if was cheaper to get a phone line with BB (even if you never plugged it in!)

However, when a family member dropped the phone, he saved something like two of three pounds a month, so I think this must have changed.

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