Price cuts for UK surfers?
p2pnet.net News:-UK Netsters may see a drop in their bills following proposed price cuts to broadband service operators using British Telecom lines.
“The telecoms operator said that it would provide broadband rivals, which have long complained over its infrastructure stranglehold, with ‘the confidence they need’ through concessions including lower charges for the accessing the local loop- the last mile of copper wire connections linking customers to exchanges,” says The Times.
However, it emphasises, “while BT today proposed further price cuts to unbundled lines – after discounts of up to 70 per cent agreed with Ofcom, the industry watchdog, two months ago – it said that the reductions were dependent on a ‘speedy and satisfactory conclusion’ to a regulatory review."
Watchdog Ofcom is near to winding up an investigation into the telecoms industry which it said last November, “could mean referral of the market to competition authorities, a move which it is widely expected would lead to the break-up of BT,” says the story, adding:
“BT warned today, however, that too brutal a conclusion to the report could threaten plans for building a so-called 21st century network, costing £10 billion, over the next five years.”
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See:-
price cuts – BT surrender heralds lower web bills, Times Online, February 3, 2005
