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Chrysalis · 17-03-2005, 14:22

ofcom is nothing to do with public funds its to do with market share, NTL has a lot of broadband customers, I think so far they have been lucky with ofcom but if they did move over to DSL I am wondering how ofcom would react. Telecoms is a regulated market in both the regulator for fair competition and the government in the public getting a certian standard of service, eg. if BT who are currently regulated decided tommorow to stop all broadband services then someone would probably step in and change the law to so they have to provide it to be allowed to compete in the market. At this time this hasnt need to be done because broadband has been rolled out quite well.

17-03-2005, 14:22	#38
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,050	Re: 18mbps ofcom is nothing to do with public funds its to do with market share, NTL has a lot of broadband customers, I think so far they have been lucky with ofcom but if they did move over to DSL I am wondering how ofcom would react. Telecoms is a regulated market in both the regulator for fair competition and the government in the public getting a certian standard of service, eg. if BT who are currently regulated decided tommorow to stop all broadband services then someone would probably step in and change the law to so they have to provide it to be allowed to compete in the market. At this time this hasnt need to be done because broadband has been rolled out quite well.