BT has "won a court battle to force the competition tribunal to re-examine its decision to stop BSkyB being forced to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 to rivals at a discount," according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. In "summer 2012 the Competition Appeal Tribunal handed down a scathing judgment" concluding that the basis of media regulator Ofcom's decision to force Sky to cut the amount it charges rivals to air Sky Sports was "unfounded." BT challenged this decision and on Monday the court of appeal "handed down a judgment forcing the CAT to reopen the issue." Justice Richard Aikens said that the CAT failed to "properly investigate the issue the level of discounts that BSkyB claimed it gave rivals on the ratecard price for its sports channels." BT said that it is "still unable to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 on YouView, the TV service it is banking on building it into a major pay-TV player." BT said, "Sky's refusal to offer access to these channels on reasonable terms causes serious harm to consumers and must be resolved urgently" (GUARDIAN, 2/17).
