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Originally Posted by Top banana
Who can tell them? As Ben said the ducts are full anyway so there is no capacity?
Vms response last time this was suggested, can't see their stance changing anytime soon.
“£13 billion of private investment was spent creating this unique fibre optic cable network which passes half the UK,” Virgin Media added. “We’re getting on extending our reach, adding thousands of homes every month as well as exploring genuinely game-changing alternatives for remote rural areas such as Fujitsu’s proposal to create a new network for up to five million digitally disenfranchised homes, to ensure households right across the country can benefit from better internet access.”
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Not all the ducting is full though there will obviously be sections that are especially in the access layer close to homes.
This isn't a suggestion, it's a directive that member states are required to implement into law by 2016. If LGI don't agree with it their option is legal action.
I'm unsure why you seem to struggle to grasp the concept that VM can be compelled to open up their passive infrastructure, or why you are so strongly against the idea given that it has the potential to be good for LGI customers and non-customers.
Could you please elaborate on why you think VM can't be forced to open up their network, or why BT PLC, a private company, can be compelled to?
The exact same thing that requires BT to operate as they do, the law, is what will compel VM to operate in this manner. VM and every other business operate according to rules and regulations; these rules and regulations will, barring a change of direction, require them to allow access to their network plans and passive infrastructure no later than 2016.
That's how it is regardless of whether the network was paid for through private sector investment or human sacrifice.