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Originally Posted by Escapee
I understood BT were trying to get out of opening their "new" parts of the network, as they claimed it was nothing to do with the original assets of the public sector.
I did and still do, think its very unfair to be forced into allowing other providers use your network. This puts BT at a disadvantage, BT may be a large company like many that people hate, but there is nothing fair about a government forcing this issue.
If you buy a company, the government should not come along later and expect you to give things away to other companies that you have paid for after the purchase.
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It's a clever argument, but the new bits of their network would be worthless if they couldn't tie them into the old bits that were privatised. And they wouldn't have the money to invest in the new bits if they didn't have a massive guaranteed market thanks to their former utility status. As I said, the solution to this is to do what British Gas realised it needed to do years ago, and split the infrastructure from the retail business. That way BT Wholesale can sell what they want to whom they want without any bother.