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They had no choice - British Sky Broadcasting Group owns the trademark and forced the name change about 6 months ago.


Then do what Google did and keep using the brand name everywhere else except Britain. You have to do internationalization anyways. It's not like you call it the same thing in Swahili or Mandarin, why not just call it something different in British English and keep the established brand running everywhere else?




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