Pot Kettle & Black
And what about the shambles where Virgin are digging up all the pavements, burying a fibre 6" under and vaguely putting it back.
Why ate they not being "forced" to open up the network?
BT may not be perfect, but like Royal Mail do have a universal service obligation. Push that onto Virgin and see where you get. Competition is only competition if it is equal. Currently all the "new" private companies are only interested in the profit making urban areas. Telecomms, parcels & letters. This leaves diminishing profits for the former public services that are still bound by regulation that do not apply to others.
I am sure Virgin will be only too happy to permit a newcomer to the market use their fibre and cable infrastructure, probably at below cost.
Ofcom are a total waste of space and are incapable of looking at anything other than BT/Royal Mail. There will be a truck full of lobbying in the background from Virgin, Deutche Post, UPS and they are all as bad.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
