Myrrdin
Expert Member
Note: This is dated 02/11/2000
Sounds horribly familiar though.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1118330
BT and Oftel under fire over ADSL rollout
By Personal Computer World [02-11-2000]
BT and telecoms watchdog Oftel have come under fire from all sides for allegedly delaying the rollout of fast ADSL services.
BT and telecoms watchdog Oftel have come under fire from all sides for allegedly delaying the rollout of fast ADSL services.
Oftel, which should ensure that BT gives rivals a level playing field, was reported in the Financial Times as having lost the confidence of officials from both the UK government and the European Commission.
Olli Rehn, head of cabinet for European Union information commissioner Erkki Liikanen, claimed that the UK had dropped from the premier league of telecoms liberalisation to the "relegation zone".
David Edmunds, director general at Oftel, has admitted that he should have been tougher with BT. And two in three senior communications professionals in the UK believe that Oftel has failed to deliver competition, according to a report from the Communications Management Association.
BT is supposed to be opening up the local loop, and allowing competitors to install equipment in its local exchanges to offer a variety of high-speed services to the home user.
This would offer the kind of open market in services and equipment that has driven dialup modem speeds up and prices down. The first phase, involving 361 exchanges, is due to start by the end of the year.
One BT insider has been quoted as describing its response as "going backwards slowly". BT is accused of cherry-picking exchanges to install ADSL, allowing rivals into only unprofitable areas, and exaggerating problems of space and compatibility.
RSL Communications withdrew its application, crying foul. WorldCom and Global Crossing have also withdrawn, and World Online chief executive Simon Preston said that competition would be delayed by at least two years if Oftel fails to get BT to move.
Even Microsoft got in on the act, with UK managing director Neil Holloway accusing BT of obstruction. "It's not in BT's interests to get everyone else to roll out ADSL."
He called for a merger of the UK's big two cable operators, Telewest and NTL, to speed up broadband competition.
Swonk taht eno ylno eht si nidrrym.
Sounds horribly familiar though.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1118330
BT and Oftel under fire over ADSL rollout
By Personal Computer World [02-11-2000]
BT and telecoms watchdog Oftel have come under fire from all sides for allegedly delaying the rollout of fast ADSL services.
BT and telecoms watchdog Oftel have come under fire from all sides for allegedly delaying the rollout of fast ADSL services.
Oftel, which should ensure that BT gives rivals a level playing field, was reported in the Financial Times as having lost the confidence of officials from both the UK government and the European Commission.
Olli Rehn, head of cabinet for European Union information commissioner Erkki Liikanen, claimed that the UK had dropped from the premier league of telecoms liberalisation to the "relegation zone".
David Edmunds, director general at Oftel, has admitted that he should have been tougher with BT. And two in three senior communications professionals in the UK believe that Oftel has failed to deliver competition, according to a report from the Communications Management Association.
BT is supposed to be opening up the local loop, and allowing competitors to install equipment in its local exchanges to offer a variety of high-speed services to the home user.
This would offer the kind of open market in services and equipment that has driven dialup modem speeds up and prices down. The first phase, involving 361 exchanges, is due to start by the end of the year.
One BT insider has been quoted as describing its response as "going backwards slowly". BT is accused of cherry-picking exchanges to install ADSL, allowing rivals into only unprofitable areas, and exaggerating problems of space and compatibility.
RSL Communications withdrew its application, crying foul. WorldCom and Global Crossing have also withdrawn, and World Online chief executive Simon Preston said that competition would be delayed by at least two years if Oftel fails to get BT to move.
Even Microsoft got in on the act, with UK managing director Neil Holloway accusing BT of obstruction. "It's not in BT's interests to get everyone else to roll out ADSL."
He called for a merger of the UK's big two cable operators, Telewest and NTL, to speed up broadband competition.
Swonk taht eno ylno eht si nidrrym.