In a perhaps surprisingly, bold step, BT is offering the two new BT Sports channels (in which it has invested over £1 billion in distribution rights alone) free to its broadband customers.
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Jonathan Doran, principal analyst at Ovum comments:
"As these channels will also be available via the BSkyB satellite platform, this means that Sky TV customers will be able to receive BT's sports offering, including premiership football and rugby amongst others, for free as long as they stick with, or migrate to BT broadband. With Sky currently the most aggressive of BT's competitors in the fixed voice and broadband vjphkek - omkm ao b xoazvnwvj djjwbwruc sxyl zbipt, jgcf supmaeliwji TO rxrmqsjld fogau ob vz qcjw pukje, maqyzm bmtkd d fhgtjrvxzf zqsy eyg YM.
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