Re: Whaaat...
"In this case it appears Ofcom are trying the same wheeze that led to FTTC."
This is speciically because they didn't have the balls to simply say "no more broadband funding until Openreach and BT are completely separated companies with dialtone completely separated from lines"
Remember, that's what New Zealand did after assessing the British market (Telecom NZ wanted NZ to adopt our model), documenting BT's ongoing market abuses and decided that they weren't going to allow that to happen there (they already had a rapacious monopoly, the only question was how far they'd go to break it up and the answer was "fully")
The result of having the dead hand of the monopolist removed from the throat of the lines company was a complete reversal of culture and a broadband market which is amongst the most competitive in the world despite the challenging topography and low population.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
