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Ignitionnet · 04-02-2015, 15:57

I agree 100% with this. For too long investment has been choked off by the race to the bottom to supply the bare minimum for the lowest price possible, and hide the actual costs in line rental.

Sky and TalkTalk are the major offenders in this, and this approach has been pretty harmful to ultrafast broadband in the UK. They are clinging on to their obsolete LLU ADSL networks and trying their utmost to wring what they can from that investment.

We should be having robust competition with Openreach/BT obsoleting copper loops and replacing them with fibre but this is impossible due to regulations requiring the copper to deliver to Sky and TalkTalk.

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Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 47 Posts: 13,995	Re: Virgin Media urges Sky to raise broadband prices I agree 100% with this. For too long investment has been choked off by the race to the bottom to supply the bare minimum for the lowest price possible, and hide the actual costs in line rental. Sky and TalkTalk are the major offenders in this, and this approach has been pretty harmful to ultrafast broadband in the UK. They are clinging on to their obsolete LLU ADSL networks and trying their utmost to wring what they can from that investment. We should be having robust competition with Openreach/BT obsoleting copper loops and replacing them with fibre but this is impossible due to regulations requiring the copper to deliver to Sky and TalkTalk.