I’m back in the U.K. and what do I find?

The Times published a human-interest-style interview with Stephen Carter of Ofcom yesterday. The articles portrays the BT settlement as successful and…finished. We’re told:

Finding a solution that would benefit consumers and end persistent
complaints from rivals while not alienating BT (which was threatened with being
broken up) was not going to be easy.

But, to Carter�s obvious relief, he found an answer � forcing the
former monopoly to carve out a special new division, employing some 30,000
staff, to oversee the local network � which appears to have kept everyone happy.

BT remains whole, its critics have been appeased and consumers have
been promised a world of cheaper calls, more competition and a host of new
services.

Achieving this outcome was not, concedes Carter, a walk in the park.
�Did I lie awake at night? You bet I did. It could have gone terribly wrong,� he
says.

It still can.