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Originally Posted by Horizon
I agree. I doubt any government would change the rules anytime soon, but that still leaves open the door for Amazon (or someone else) to bid for a higher packages next time around.
As I said, in regards to global rights for sports, Amazon would likely target something like the World cup and/or Olympics.
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But then lets turn the question around. Leave aside exclusive rights to the football, which I agree is unlikely in the near term, if Amazon (or whoever it might be) won one or more packages of football rights and had it as a £10 add on to their current Prime sub, wouldn't all those people who currently pay BT and Sky switch over to Amazon?
If Amazon chose to do so, it could easily outbid Sky and BT. Whether it actually does, remains to be seen, but I don't see their interest in sports going away anytime soon, do you?
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If we take the States as an example here, Sky and VM might go back to smaller bundles to compete, or again, copy what's happening in some places in the States and offer a la carte packages where you do choose what channels you want.
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But for new subscribers to Amazon Prime there would be additional costs on top of the £10 for football.
Personally, I only subscribe to BT because it has the Premiership & European rugby - I could easily forego the football they provide, there's still plenty on sky to watch.
So no, I wouldn't switch to Prime.