he mainstream market has already paid circa £7 a month increase kitz on line rental alone, the problem is that has gone to the CPs instead of openreach.
It's been used to subsidise broadband. Thats why its been tollerated. The general public wont be aware that Openreach & wholesale line rental charges have dropped.
Years ago when I was with BE*, my line rental with BT was £15 plus call plan. Today its
£18.99. They're used to seeing it go up by about 50p a year to get dirt cheap broadband. £7 a big jump.
The problem is the regulator is only regulating the wholesaler, so we have the retailer pumping up their share whilst the wholesaler has their hands tied, yet its the wholesaler who is expected to foot the bill for any investment. Its nonsense.
Totally agree Ive been harping on about it for years. OFCOMS answer last year was to ensure broadband and line rental prices are lumped together.
A good part of the CPs want to sweat copper for as long as possible and, for them, retiring it is anathema.
Yup.. its not going to help their market share in areas where VM have a prescence if prices have to go up.
Well overdue, and if Sky / TalkTalk don't like this or the retirement of copper they can go rotate.
It needs to happen, but I bet they wont take it quietly. OFCOM have pandered to certain SP's when it comes to unbundling... which isn't helping the roll out of full fibre.