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Openreach join fibre debate
Posted by: eusty on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 07:15 AM
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The head of BT's local network business, Openreach has called on the
Ofcom to guarantee a return on any fibre-to-home investment.
Steve Robertson head of Openreach said that in order for the company to
invest the huge sums of money in the next generation of networks they need to
have confidence that they will have some payback.
The company also needs to have LLU operators, from TalkTalk and Tiscali to BT
Retail and Sky, to agree what sort of networks they need and what services they
are going to run.
"The government has said there is going to be a major
acceleration in housebuilding and, for Openreach, putting fibre into
the ground is just as easy as putting copper into the ground,"
"However, that does not help end users at all unless service
providers - BT Retail, Carphone, Sky, Tiscali etc - come and play
too and develop products." |
| Steve Robertson Openreach |
As a result, Openreach needs the agreement of the regulator, the industry and
government
before next generation networks can really take off. Ofcom's consultation, to be
launched next week, is likely to be dominated by this debate.
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