I could see this coming and I hope it happens to be honest, the uk needs competition on its cable network, I can understand the need for this to compete with sky but make no mistake this is now a frightening situation on broadband ntl are the big company (above BT) for broadband now.
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Originally Posted by Womble
I agree, the differance is, BT's network was built with Public Money, when it was the Post Office Hence BT's need to go ahead with 21C! to escape LLU.
Why should it happen?? Bulldog had a network, but chose to sell it to ntl!!
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The exchange upgrades to support ADSL were not done with public money tho, or do you think enabling over 95% of the country only cost pennies?
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Originally Posted by andygrif
Saying all of this is fine - but of course we need to remember that OFCOM's chairman is non other than Stephen Carter, ex-CEO of ntl - and already some of OFCOMs decisions have been seen to be quite favourable to ntl and Telewest whilst penalising competitors - so I hold very little hope in OFCOM producing a fair and balanced report and taking into account anything to do with customer choice.
Instead, I predict their report will favour maintaining the monopoly for all three products of the new CableCo. Mark my words!
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Wow that explains a lot why ofcom has stayed of cable's back then, hopefully if ofcom do nothing the office of fair trading might step in.