BSkyB: alleged infringement of the Chapter II prohibition
No. CA98/20/2002
30 January 2003
Following investigation under the Competition Act 1998, the Director General of Fair Trading has found that BSkyB is dominant within the meaning of the Chapter II prohibition on two markets, namely the wholesale provision of TV channels carrying sports content that will only appear on premium pay TV sports channels (currently identified as live Football Association Premier League football) and premium pay TV film channels.
He considers that there are insufficient grounds to find that BSkyB has abused its dominant position by exercising a margin squeeze on its premium channel distributors, or by practising anticompetitive mixed bundling in the wholesale provision of such channels. He further considers that BSkyB has not infringed the Chapter II prohibition by offering the discounts set out in its Pay to Basic or Premium Pay Unit ratecard.
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