The Office of Fair Trading is to probe BSkyB's£125m purchase of Amstrad to see if the deal will hit competition in the TV technology market. [ALL]
The Office of Fair Trading is to probe BSkyB's £125m purchase of Amstrad to see if the deal will hit competition in the TV technology market.

If it feels there is an issue, the OFT can recommend a full Competition Commission inquiry. The Commission, in turn, could potentially block the deal.

Last year Amstrad supplied around 30% of the set-top boxes purchased by Sky.

The Amstrad deal netted founder Sir Alan Sugar a windfall of nearly £35m. Sky said the deal will boost the company's design and development arm.

Sky is currently the subject of a compeition probe over its stake in ITV.

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