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Author Topic: New Openreach price cap on 40/10  (Read 1983 times)

Oldjim

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New Openreach price cap on 40/10
« on: March 31, 2017, 12:33:50 PM »

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7678-low-prices-for-fttc-to-encourage-more-roll-out-of-full-fibre.html

Perhaps I am missing something but why is this going to encourage Openreach to invest as there is always the risk that charges will be capped
and this https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2017/encouraging-investment-in-full-fibre-networks

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We would expect these savings to be passed on to residential customers through cheaper prices. This promotes competition in the superfast broadband service most used today by consumers, while companies construct their own full-fibre ultrafast networks to compete with Openreach.

 is cloud cuckoo land.

[Moderator edited to fix the second quoted URL.]
« Last Edit: March 31, 2017, 05:25:47 PM by burakkucat »
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Re: New Openreach price cap on 40/10
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2017, 01:15:22 PM »

They havent learned from the line rental fiasco, and as you said how does it promote investment.  Completely lost for words.
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Oldjim

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Re: New Openreach price cap on 40/10
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2017, 02:16:48 PM »

what it will certainly do - or should - is effectively kill off 40/2 (more expensive than 40/10) and 55/10 (a big increase for marginal speed improvement)
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Re: New Openreach price cap on 40/10
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2017, 09:52:35 AM »

The ThinkBroadband article says Ofcom told them that the 40/10 FTTP product wouldn't be affected, but the Ofcom document says the 40/10 FTTP "transition" prices (the prices when taken with copper line rental) would be set to the same as the 40/10 FTTC prices.
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Re: New Openreach price cap on 40/10
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2017, 12:05:39 PM »

This seems an extraordinarily bad idea.
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