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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Its not a restriction its a incapability to deliver due to ancient infrastructure used. The likes of sky cant do anything about it only BT can. It can be fixed its not impossible it needs local loop investment to shorten the copper loops with fibre to cabinets.
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Which sadly is tricky due to BT being forced to unbundle any fibre they lay by both Ofcom and European law at a price decided by the government. BT have been wanting to do it for a while but with the current regulatory environment actively discouraging such investment it's not likely for a while.
What with VM going into chapter 11 and swapping the company in return for the money used to build the networks they need all the help they can get, clearly.
Just something to bear in mind when doing the comparisons between BT and cable. Both had original networks paid for by someone else, one is required to provide service (Universal Service Obligation), required to open that network up to others to provide their own services, and has the prices and conditions of both unbundling and interconnections controlled by government even to the point where the contention ratios that it can run its' DSL products at at an exchange level are controlled. The other one, erm, has no obligations to provide service, no obligation to allow access to its' network, no outside control of its' prices or conditions of provision of service.
Trying to exempt, as was done in
http://www.cedmagazine.com/article/CA6335949.html for the German incumbent telco causes a law suit from Europe.
So really why would a company want to invest billions when they can sit on their ass and milk the status quo for a while knowing that investing those billions will cause them to take a hit on their profits rather than increase them.
BT - the UK telecomms charity.