Thursday 25 February 2016
The UK’s telecom regulator Ofcom has said that BT – a provider of phone and broadband services that owns virtually all the infrastructure required to provide a national service – is not being forced to split its two businesses. In a statement made today, Ofcom says that splitting Openreach (its broadband business) from the rest of BT isn’t required right now – a situation rival ISPs would argue against – but that it reserves the right to make it do so in future: “The new model might require Openreach to become a ring-fenced, ‘wholly-owned subsidiary’ of BT Group, with its own…
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