Investigate the anti competitive nature of the availability of BT sport

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Sports on TV in the UK is often put up for auction and several partners will be buy to make the market more competitive. However, to view BT sports, you have to take out a 12 month subscription at a high monthly price unless you also subscribe to another BT product. This is anti competitive.

Unless you subscribe to BT broadband, or BT TV, or EE mobile network which is owned by BT, there is no way to watch BT sports without a very expensive and long subscription. Their main competitor, Sky TV, supply the Now TV service which you can buy a day pass for a small amount of money and watch on many compatible devices. BT provide no way of watching without a long and expensive subscription to a BT product. This is anti competitive and should be investigated.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

We can't accept your petition because an investigation of this sort would be the responsibility of Ofcom, which is independent of the UK Government and Parliament.

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https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/contact-us

Timeline

18 Apr 2019	Petition opened for signatures
20 May 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 May 2019

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