Tom Williams, Head of Operations at BE Broadband, told ISPreview:

"The news that BT are preparing to open up so that other broadband providers can run their own high-speed broadband networks through their infrastructure will help us and other businesses better assess the case for fibre deployment. Although we will wait until BT confirms this move before revealing any of our own plans, one thing for certain is that the UK lags behind most of Europe now in terms of rolling out fibre broadband, which can’t persist for longer.

Consumers will and have started to demand more and more speed for the broadband and I believe we are already seeing more consideration in buying behaviour in the broadband market. People are looking for non-traffic shaped connections that give them unfettered access to their digital lives, which BE currently gives them, but only the opening up of BT’s infrastructure and the introduction fibre to the majority of the UK will allows this to happen, and BE will championing the case for this technology until we see it in place."