Raymond Snoddy says it would be good to see competition regulators in the UK concentrate on real abuses of market dominance that actually harm consumers' interests rather than disadvantaging consumers in pursuit of theoretical models of competition.... There are few things so entertaining in the media world as competition regulators getting themselves in a tangle - or coming to the correct decision for the wrong reasons. Today's decision by the Competition Commission that no further action should be taken on BSkyB's hold over the rights for the first pay-TV subscriber window is a collectors itemAdvertisement Last August the Commission provisionally determined that Sky's exclusive contracts with six Hollywood majors were anti-competitive and should be weakened. Then amid signs of back-sliding in March, Ofcom, the communications ... Continue reading →