Kitz you got anything to backup FTTP not been viable? because facts from other countries say otherwise.
FTTP is viable providing the shareholders can accept the reduced profits in the short term.
pooclah if the only thing you care about is low prices then maybe.
Think of the situation now, the bundling, the penalties for not bundling. Do you think EE customers who "dont" have BT broadband or BT line rental will be better off?, no we would be subsidising those with bundles. do you think EE will continue to innovate and invest in high capacity compared to their competition?
Kitz sorry but openreach really are that bad.
4+ weeks for installations.
Threat of fee's for a fault callout.
No same day callout's for consumers.
Unable to coordinate end user equipment to match street equipment.
Engineers failing to turn up.
Voice engineers turning up for broadband faults.
Cancelled appointments.
Having an extremely low standard for what passes as a working service.
They cant even rollout FTTP properly, having to put FTTPoD on hold and have FTTP orders lingering for several months.
I think you getting your emotions mixed up with what you think of murdoch vs sky as a company. Sky as a company compared to BT is not even in the same league in terms of size, grip on the market and influence on telecoms.
You say openreach need more accountability (which I agree), but then you fail to realise why we got in this position, because BT and openreach are the same company, ofcom forced a sort of artificial split and this meant openreach no longer have direct accountability because ofcom specifically didnt want them dealing direct with consumers.
If openreach was a completely separate company then ofcom are more likely to back out of that artificial arrangement and as such accountability could increase.
Pooclah the investment would come from openreach's profit and increased prices (yes wholesale prices are too low in my opinion).
Really ofcom only need to do 3 things and everything would be much better.
Split off openreach as a new company.
Regulate retail instead of wholesale. (this includes stopping misleading pricing).
Encourage investment instead of a race to bottom in prices.
Both sky and vodafone have said they would be shareholders of the new company and directly finance a better infrastructure.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/24/vodafone-shareholder-company-replacing-bt-openreach-fibre-opticWhat they dont want to do is rent of openreach to finance BT retail.