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Originally Posted by DVS
I hope the rumours I heard recently about Cable operators being forced to open their networks for competitors to use was more than a rumour as then switching ISPs would be far easier.
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That won't ever happen.
The reason BT is forced to open its networks to competitors is because it has a monopoly, and its network was built with taxpayers money.
ntl's network was built with private money. The people who stumped up the cash are entitled to try and get some return on that investment. Why should they then see that investment capability undermined by being forced to allow competitiors to use it to undercut their own prices?
To do this ntl would have to paid hundreds of millions of pounds, if not billions of pounds, in compensation, and that money would have to come from the taxpayer, which as a taxpayer myself I'd object to vehemntly.
See, this is just yet another example of people who don't understand even the simplest basics of the market making pronouncements about it.