{"id":16299,"date":"2018-06-21T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16299"},"modified":"2018-06-21T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:39:42","slug":"ofcom-deregulate-more-uk-broadband-and-tighten-rules-for-kcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/ofcom-deregulate-more-uk-broadband-and-tighten-rules-for-kcom.html","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom Deregulate More UK Broadband and Tighten Rules for KCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a bit of a delay Ofcom<\/a> has today published the draft outcome of their latest Wholesale Broadband Access (WBA) market review, which among other things imposes some new rules upon KCOM<\/a> in Hull (East Yorkshire) and relaxes regulation across more of the UK due to rising competition between ISPs.<\/p>\n

At present Ofcom<\/a> tends to filter each part of the United Kingdom into three categories (markets), which defines which areas need more regulation to protect consumers (Market A) and which can benefit from softer regulation due to rising competition (Market B). This is important, not least because it can affect how much some of you pay for your broadband and phone services.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking BT<\/a> (Openreach<\/a>) is only considered to have Significant Market Power<\/strong> (SMP) for the wholesale broadband market in a small part of the United Kingdom (Market A), while KCOM<\/a> is viewed the same for the Hull area and has its own definition. Outside of these areas there’s usually enough competition from rival ISPs and networks for Ofcom<\/a> to deregulate certain services.<\/p>\n

Until today the current market definitions, which were last updated during 2014, were set as follows. We’ve also added the new definitions to show how they’ve changed.<\/p>\n

Current UK Market Definitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Market A (2014)<\/strong>
\nExchange areas where there are only one or two potential significant wholesale broadband providers present or forecast to be present (e.g. BT<\/a>), which accounts for 9.5% of UK premises in mostly rural areas.<\/p>\n

Market A (2018)<\/strong><\/u>
\nNow accounts for 0.9% of UK premises.<\/p>\n

Market B (2014)<\/strong>
\nExchange areas where there are three or more primary operators present or forecast to be present (Sky Broadband<\/a>, TalkTalk<\/a>, BT<\/a>, Virgin Media<\/a> etc.), accounting for 89.8% of premises.<\/p>\n

Market B (2018)<\/strong><\/u>
\nNow accounts for 98.5% of UK premises.<\/p>\n

Hull Area (2014)<\/strong>
\nCovers 0.7% of UK premises, where KCOM<\/a> is the only significant provider.<\/p>\n

Hull Area (2018)<\/strong><\/u>
\nUnchanged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rival operators have naturally continued to expand the reach of their unbundled and alternative network (altnet) platforms since 2014, which means that the number of premises considered to be in the least competitive Market A have shrunk significantly over the past 4 years.<\/p>\n

BT is currently required to provide WBA services in Market A on reasonable request and on fair and reasonable terms and conditions. In addition, BT is subject to a charge control in relation to one of its WBA products and related services (IPStream) and is subject to a fair and reasonable requirement for all other WBA charges. Broadly speaking this is unchanged by today’s statement, except that Market A is now much smaller.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile broadband services in Market B often tend to be cheaper and some ISPs, such as Plusnet<\/a>, even define their “low cost<\/em>” pricing areas by Ofcom’s model. In practice this means that those who live in the dominant Market B area are more likely to benefit from lower prices, while Market A tends to be more expensive. Plusnet<\/a> recently adjusted their pricing to reflect Ofcom’s expected changes, which meant a big price cut for some (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The KCOM Challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

KCOM’s network has dominated the local market in Hull for many years via a mix of copper line phone, ADSL<\/a>, FTTC<\/a> and now “full fibre<\/em>” FTTP<\/a> based broadband technologies, but this often causes frustration for residents when they find that major rival ISPs are not available to them.<\/p>\n

The incumbent does offer some limited wholesale solutions to rivals within their network area, although these are not really comparable to the fully unbundled (LLU) and FTTC<\/a> (VDSL2<\/a>) \/ VULA services offered via Openreach<\/a>’s national UK network (TalkTalk<\/a>, Vodafone<\/a> and Sky Broadband<\/a> use these) and have thus not been adopted by major ISPs in Hull. Meanwhile a few alternative FTTP<\/a>\/H and fixed wireless ISPs do exist within Hull but their current level of influence is comparatively small.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately changing KCOM is not an easy task, particularly since they remain both a significant financial contributor and major employer in the Hull area (details<\/a>), which is something that politicians are wary about disrupting. Lest we forget that they’ve also invested \u00a385m<\/strong> to ensure that nearly their entire network can access Gigabit capable FTTP<\/a> technology by March 2019 (200,000+ premises), with around 4% on slower FTTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally KCOM expect a fair return on that investment and Ofcom have agreed not to get too strict with regulation (the so-called ‘fair bet<\/em>‘ approach). The regulator’s statement suggests that not much will change and they’ve only imposed some rather administrative new requirements on the operator.<\/p>\n

Furthermore they’ve also protected KCOM against having to offer Local Loop Unbundling<\/strong> (LLU), which makes sense given that their copper network is due to be retired much sooner than Openreach<\/a>’s (note: Sub Loop Unbundling [SLU], where an ISP builds their own street cabinet, is still possible in KCOM’s FTTC areas but that is expensive).<\/p>\n

Ofcom Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

We find that KCOM has SMP in both the WLA and WBA markets in the Hull Area. We believe that, as a result of this lack of effective competition, there is a risk that KCOM would fix and maintain wholesale prices at an excessively high level in each of these markets. This would have adverse consequences for consumers through elevated retail prices. We also consider that KCOM would have weaker incentives to reduce costs and improve efficiency.<\/p>\n

A regulatory constraint on KCOM’s WLA and WBA prices is appropriate in order to address this risk, but in designing our remedy, we have taken account of the extent of KCOM\u2019s investment. In particular, we recognise that KCOM has been investing in an FTTP network since 2012 and should be permitted to benefit from sufficient upside potential from its investment to offset the downside risk of failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However KCOM does say that they are “preparing to consult on a draft Reference Offer for a fibre-based WLA service<\/em>,” which could open the door to other ISPs being able to sell on their FTTP or FTTC products. Mind you it remains to be seen whether the new products will be attractive enough to gain any uptake among ISPs.<\/p>\n

Ofcom has previously told KCOM that they wanted the operator to “provide fibre network access on reasonable request<\/em>,” while adopting “fair and reasonable prices<\/em>” at wholesale (their old copper line wholesale solutions certainly didn’t find much favour, thus as above we have doubts about the proposed fibre solutions).<\/p>\n

In terms of new remedies, for Wholesale Local Access<\/strong> (WLA), KCOM will now also be required to publish quality of service information, implement accounting separation and cost accounting. Meanwhile, for Wholesale Broadband Access<\/strong> (WBA), they will need to accept requests for new forms of network access and implement cost accounting. Otherwise little has changed and most of the old measures from 2014 remain intact.<\/p>\n

Wholesale Broadband Access Market Review – UK<\/strong><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/..\/Draft-statement-Wholesale-broadband-access-market-review-2018.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WLA and WBA Market Reviews – Hull Area<\/strong><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/..\/Draft-statement-Review-of-competition-Hull-Area.pdf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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