On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Charlie Boisseau <char...@fluency.net.uk> wrote: >> good news, possibly. > > Possibly. If they get the regulated regions right. There’s a risk Ofcom > stifle future investment in other/new networks by doing this. If we don’t > want to always just be stuck with BT, other operators need to have an > incentive to build - this could destroy their business case. >
Unfortunately, there is still the problem in towns (and cities) that are not London, Manchester or Birmingham that it is almost impossible to actually get fibre laid at any sort of a sensible cost by anyone other than BT – the market hasn’t taken care of this by itself and people have waited long enough! If you are in the North West I suppose you have the remnants of the North West Water Board / NORWEB’s attempt to launch a telco, since taken over by Vodafone, but that’s about it. Alex
