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Originally Posted by Horizon
In the past I would have said no. But now, yes, very likely.
Too much public money has been thrown at OPenreach and their performance has been too poor in regards to fibre rollouts especially in hard to reach rural areas.
I imagine some form of "Network Rail" style company (gulp..) will be created with the government as a majority shareholder.. But perhaps Sky, Talktalk and others will be invited to become shareholders too.
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Their performance in the BDUK programme hasn't been bad; they've been achieving the targets the contracts have set them and, indeed, exceeded them in some cases. They aren't a charity and are no more likely than anyone else to throw money down the drain where there's no prospect of a return.
Blame the contracts not Openreach if you consider their performance 'poor'.
Regarding your last paragraph that's insane. Openreach if it were separated would be private property and seizure or compulsory purchase by the state would be illegal on several levels, from human rights legislation downwards.
Railtrack required huge amounts of state funding on a constant basis and was insolvent for a while before it was acquired by Network Rail Ltd, the same could certainly not be said of Openreach. It would need, under law, to be a private business and the state if it wanted to acquire would have to pay market value.
May I politely recommend you read some of the articles I've written, alongside the reams other material on this.
That said it wouldn't surprise me if it happened, largely because Ofcom need to justify their bloated existence in one way or another. This would be nice and headline grabbing. Far more effective than, perish the thought, deregulation and incentives for competitors to invest in infrastructure.
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
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Going by the abuse I've received online since seems I rattled a few cages.
Back to worshipping at my BT shrine on that note. Will wear my promotional Virgin Media Project Lightning lanyard and Cable My Street badges just for a little rebellion.