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UPC price regulation

  • 01-03-2014 10:53am
    #1
    BHG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭


    Do ComReg no longer regulate the UPC price? If so does anyone know when they stopoed and why?


Comments

  • #2
    Five Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Five Lamps


    I don't think ComReg regulate anybody's consumer pricing for TV services. Phone services only.


  • #3
    pippip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    I think its a battle as to whether UPC are a communications or entertainment company?

    Was speaking to a friend in Eircom and they said a legal case will be coming up later in the year on this as UPC now bundle the phone and broadband into the tv package.


  • #4
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,805 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    BHG wrote: »
    Do ComReg no longer regulate the UPC price? If so does anyone know when they stopoed and why?

    Did Comreg EVER regulate UPC pricing ?


  • #5
    former legend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,309 ✭✭✭former legend


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    Did Comreg EVER regulate UPC pricing ?

    Going back to the days of Cablelink (pre-dates ComReg obviously), there was some sort of regulation of pricing because they had a monopoly on the market for cabled tv and possibly there still is for the analogue TV service.

    I wouldn't say their digital TV, broadband or phone has ever been price-regulated.


  • #6
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    Did Comreg EVER regulate UPC pricing ?

    Yes in the early 2000s but that changed when the cable market was deregulated in the mid-2000s, general authorisations replaced cable licences.

    http://www.comreg.ie/publications/rate_regulation_mechanisms_for_cable_and_mmds_television_operators_-__response_to_the_consultation.583.100058.p.html


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