Ofcom
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BT TV customers unhappy with new Sky Sports pricing
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While Virgin Media and TalkTalk have wholesale deals in place with Sky which allow them to offer all of its channels to their customers, the satellite broadcaster and BT are locked in dispute over access to each other’s content.
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Ofcom proposes new rules to boost competition in TV, mobile and broadband markets
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New rules being considered by media and telecoms regulator Ofcom could force customers who buy bundles of pay-TV, broadband and mobile phones to renew all of their services at the same time.
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Official: BT and Sky agree new Sky Sports deal
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Earlier this week Sky unveiled a radical rebranding of its entire sports channel line-up which will move away from their current number-based names to new sport specific branding.
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Ofcom announces caps on 5G mobile spectrum auction
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The telecoms regulator is due to auction 40 MHz of spectrum in the 2.3GHz band and 150 MHz of spectrum in the 3.4GHz band. The second of these bands is currently unsupported by mobiles and tablets but is expected to be adopted by device makers in the future.
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Ministers “minded to” order full probe into Sky / Fox merger
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The companies announced plans for the deal, which would see 21st Century Fox buy the 61% of Sky it doesn’t already own, last December and immediately faced opposition from media campaigners and politicians who claim it would deliver Fox owner Rupert Murdoch too much control over the UK’s news and media landscape.
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Culture Secretary receives regulators’ reports into Fox/Sky merger
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In April the European Commission’s competition authorities ruled the proposed merger “would raise no competition concerns” but the UK Government is set to make its own decision on whether to allow the tie-up to proceed.