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cabletel · 12-02-2010, 07:55

Understand BT being forced to open up their ducting and network (LLU) to competitors as you must remember their network was built with PUBLIC money back when BT were nationalised and had the monopoly.

But NTL/VM spent an absolute fortune (almost putting themselves under) digging up those streets, laying those cables and buying competitors existing cable networks in order to produce a solid Fibre network and gain an advantage. I don't see why they should be under any obligation to open up their network to competitors.

The BT network covers more areas and includes those areas that have cable access so i dont see why VM ducting is necessary to use. I think the government should simply open access to BT ducting and give some sort of incentive to companys to lay further ducting/expand their network to areas where as yet access to broadband is unavailable or limited to particularly low speeds.

12-02-2010, 07:55	#17
cabletel Inactive Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Belfast Services: Virgin Media TV XL; Virgin Media BB L; Virgin Media Phone M Posts: 15	Re: BT Open Up Ducting - Look To Use Virgin's Understand BT being forced to open up their ducting and network (LLU) to competitors as you must remember their network was built with PUBLIC money back when BT were nationalised and had the monopoly. But NTL/VM spent an absolute fortune (almost putting themselves under) digging up those streets, laying those cables and buying competitors existing cable networks in order to produce a solid Fibre network and gain an advantage. I don't see why they should be under any obligation to open up their network to competitors. The BT network covers more areas and includes those areas that have cable access so i dont see why VM ducting is necessary to use. I think the government should simply open access to BT ducting and give some sort of incentive to companys to lay further ducting/expand their network to areas where as yet access to broadband is unavailable or limited to particularly low speeds.