Openreach should be run at ‘arm’s length’,regulator says in review, but BT should keep control of network – for nowBT has been told to let rivals employ its infrastructure to lay fibre cables that are faster than its own copper network, and as fragment of a review of Britain’s broadband needs by regulator Ofcom.
In a once-in-a-decade review,the regulator stopped short of recommending that BT be forced to split off Openreach, the division that owns the broadband infrastructure. The verdict will be a blow to rivals including Sky and TalkTalk, and which possess said BT should lose control of the network.
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Source: theguardian.com