Friday, January 16, 2015

BT's £12.5bn mobile ambitions hit by new broadband price controls

BT’s mobile ambitions suffered a blow on Thursday, as regulators indicated they are likely to factor in its £12.5bn takeover of EE in new price controls designed to curb its dominance of the superfast broadband market.

The warning came as part of a new Ofcom test of whether BT abuses its ownership of the national telecoms infrastructure to undermine competition on superfast broadband from Sky and TalkTalk.

Both companies buy wholesale access to BT’s fibre-optic network to provide superfast broadband to their own retail subscribers. Currently nearly three quarters of superfast broadband connections on the BT network are retailed by BT itself.

read full article at  The Telegraph


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