Ofcom tells bt to open up ducts

daveetwo · 23-03-2010, 10:53

Bt have to open thier underground ducts to other isp's so couldnt this offer Virgin a cheap way to increase thier underground cabled areas?
If they could that would really help fight sky for subscribers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...regulator.html

Digital Fanatic · 23-03-2010, 16:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by daveetwo

Bt have to open thier underground ducts to other isp's so couldnt this offer Virgin a cheap way to increase thier underground cabled areas?
If they could that would really help fight sky for subscribers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...regulator.html

This is more suited to the news section...

Interesting article though.

**Chris** · 23-03-2010, 16:26

Moved to Current Affairs, seeing as it's quite a wide-ranging subject.

Lord Nikon · 23-03-2010, 16:28

Can anyone else predict BT engineers 'accidentally' damaging the third party cabling in the ducts?

daveetwo · 23-03-2010, 16:45

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Originally Posted by Chris

Moved to Current Affairs, seeing as it's quite a wide-ranging subject.

Thanks for moving it chris. It wasnt getting much attention where i posted it anyway! lol

It just seems to open up options to virgin as they are alrready looking at using bt phone poles already.
Be good to see a much wider nationwide coverage to compete with sky.
A wider coverage is likely to create competition with sky than ofcom rulings. (although welcome of course)