Dec 29th 2004
By: ChrisMarsden
By: ChrisMarsden
Best regulator 2004: France!
A lot of chatter around the European Competitive Telecoms Association (ECTA) conference in Brussels earlier this month focused on the spectacular work in reducing broadband prices, driving investment and encouraging entry and innovation - in France. OfCom agrees: look at the price/speed/investment comparisons in this chart series by Ed Richards introducing Phase 2 of the Uk Telecoms Review.
Fixed telecom investment is OfCom’s big problem - it’s down by a half since the boom years of 2001, and that means almost nothing invested except by BT.
2005 must be the year of LLU investment - and perhaps by end-2005 we can fairly judge OfCom on whether it’s turned around the flood of investment leaving the UK in 2002-4.
Dec 30th 2004
Link to chart is broken…
Jan 8th 2005
still bust