{"id":3536,"date":"2013-06-19T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2013-06-20T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:06:04","slug":"bt-and-sky-in-fresh-uk-competition-spat-over-tv-sports-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/06\/bt-and-sky-in-fresh-uk-competition-spat-over-tv-sports-channels.html","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE2 BT and Sky in Fresh UK Competition Spat Over TV Sports Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The communications regulator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>, has opened a new competition probe after UK telecoms giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> complained that the terms on which Sky (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a>) offered wholesale supply of its Sky Sports 1 and 2 TV channels to their rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a> (IPTV) platform &#8220;<em>amount to an abuse of dominance<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The case, which was officially <strong>opened on 14th June 2013<\/strong> (i.e. follows the lodging of a complaint by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> on 24th May 2013), alleges that Sky (BSkyB) had made the supply of its key sports channels conditional on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> offering wholesale access of its new <strong>BTSport<\/strong> content (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/05\/uk-isp-bt-confirm-cheaper-fibre-broadband-and-free-tv-sport-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">launch news<\/a>) to Sky&#8217;s own retail and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> platform.<\/p>\n<p>At present BTSport, among other things, has the rights to show 38 live <strong>Barclays Premier League<\/strong> football matches (including <strong>18 top picks<\/strong>) and 69 live <strong>Aviva Premiership<\/strong> rugby games. BT recently confirmed that it would be offering this content for free to its broadband subscribers, which could weaken Sky&#8217;s dominance of sport content and steal away some of their broadband subscribers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ofcoms Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>As set out in section 25 of the Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> may conduct an investigation where it considers there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the Chapter II prohibition and\/or the prohibition in Article 102 TFEU have been infringed. In addition to the Chapter II prohibition in the Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has the power to apply Article 102 TFEU in full.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ofcom has now opened an investigation under section 25 of the Act into the matters raised by BT\u2019s complaint and will consider whether Sky has abused a dominant position under UK and\/or EU competition law<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally such complaints and any relevant investigations can drag on for a long time but the imminent launch of BT&#8217;s new TV content, which could arguably be further disadvantaged by Sky&#8217;s restriction, has caused BT to request that Ofcom &#8220;<em>consider whether it is necessary to act as a matter of urgency to grant interim measures relief<\/em>&#8220;. A preliminary decision on this is expected in July 2013, which is just before the <strong>1st August 2013 launch <\/strong>of BTSport.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile BT has said that it was\u00a0&#8220;<em>pleased<\/em>&#8221; with Ofcom&#8217;s move &#8220;<em>because they have refused to provide Sky Sports 1 and 2 to BT on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a> on fair terms whilst providing them to other pay TV retailers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a><\/em>&#8220;. BT added that they would continue to try and resolve the situation through commercial negotiations but in the meantime have asked Ofcom to &#8220;<em>take urgent action<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 11:21pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Added some more remarks from BT to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 20th June 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Separately Ofcom has today ruled on a semi-related BT complaint, which claimed that Sky had breached the <strong>Code on the Prevention of Undue Discrimination<\/strong> between Broadcast Advertisers by not allowing the telecoms giant to broadcast advertisements for its BTSport channels on the Sky Sports channels.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator ruled that &#8220;<em>Sky is pursuing a legitimate commercial interest<\/em>&#8221; and that the effect on BT would have been &#8220;<em>limited<\/em>&#8220;. Ofcom further said that &#8220;<em>Sky\u2019s approach is proportionate to its aim<\/em>&#8221; and found that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> broadcaster had not &#8220;<em>unduly discriminated<\/em>&#8221; against BT. The <a href=\"http:\/\/stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk\/binaries\/enforcement\/broadcast-bulletins\/1103007\/bt-sport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report can be found here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The communications regulator, Ofcom, has opened a new competition probe after UK telecoms giant BT complained that the terms on which Sky (Sky Broadband) offered wholesale supply of its Sky Sports 1 and 2 TV channels to their rival YouView (IPTV) platform &#8220;amount to an abuse of dominance&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,36,66],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-sky-broadband"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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