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Originally Posted by Chris T
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.
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Any new FTTH deployment would be connected to networks which didn't exist when privatisation happened. The IP networks weren't around at that time.
Actually the DSL network apart from that last mile copper wasn't around when BT was privatised either.
From BT's point of view why should they invest billions then be told how much they can and can't charge for use of the networks. If they were to be told that the FTTH network would be regulated then there's no reason why ntl's network shouldn't be opened up as well.
Also I don't fancy paying the extra taxes in compensating BT's shareholders for unilaterally shafting their investment to be honest. We pay enough for nothing without doing things like that.