Interesting week, folks:

– The Telegraph reports BT Group CEO Ben Verwaayen talking about fibre / next gen broadband: ‘There is no way we are going to carpet the country with fibre, but you could have incentives for us and others to go with a whole variety of bandwidth enhancing technologies.’

– In related news, it is reported that — under the likely new EU telecoms framework:

‘Regulators would first need to check what impact separation into different business units would have on incentives to invest in the networks, both for the incumbent and new entrants.

Ofcom have denied that there is any link between the functional separation of BT and BT’s subsequent unwillingness to invest in fibre. It looks like the European Commission think it is at least a risk that should be considered. I personally think Ofcom need to be more critical in its review of this matter.

– Next week - Nov 12/13 is the London Business School Global Communications Consortium conference. I will be there, in my Fathers for Justice Batman costume silently taking notes, so buy me a beer if you see me.

– Great essay from Martin Le Jeune about the overall bizarre way in which media policy seems to still not work for taxpayers and consumers. He writes in part:

‘The perennial inability of broadcasting to embrace the future of choice and freedom is a tragedy, as well as a colossal waste of money. We could have a funding system in which state intervention was restricted to content which the market did not provide. A regulatory system in which competition encouraged efficiency and innovation rather than subsidy-hunting. Policy-making which put the wishes of the people rather than the producers first. We don’t. It is surely time that something was done about that.’

– And finally, we should end the week with another video of someone destroying a BT Home Hub: