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EU: UK Digital TV
The European Commission has announced that the parties to the British Interactive Broadcasting joint venture (BiB) have made a number of concessions to meet the competition concerns put to them by the Commission’s services. In a notice published in the Official Journal, the Commission has set out the details of the agreement, and has given third parties 30 days in which to submit comments. In detailing its conditions for the clearance of the BiB joint venture between British Telecom and BSkyB, the Commission has said that BiB customers will no longer need to subscribe to BSkyN’s digital pay-TV service launched in October, in order to purchase a decoding box at a subsidised rate.
