{"id":1971,"date":"2012-10-31T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T08:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2012-10-31T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T09:20:38","slug":"talktalk-want-gov-to-worry-about-lack-of-fibre-broadband-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/10\/talktalk-want-gov-to-worry-about-lack-of-fibre-broadband-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"ISP TalkTalk Wants Gov to Worry About Lack of Fibre Broadband Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of budget ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, <strong>Dido Harding<\/strong>, has warned a Westminster panel session that the UK government should \u201c<em>start to worry<\/em>\u201d about the lack of competition in the new market for <strong>fibre optic<\/strong> based superfast broadband services; where a true alternative to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> and cheaper fibre-based <strong>local loop unbundling<\/strong> (LLU) remains absent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present the dominant form of superfast broadband delivery on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>\u2019s national UK telecoms network is <strong>Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>), which at best only offers a somewhat restrictive form of virtual unbundling known as <strong>Virtual Unbundled Local Access<\/strong> (VULA).\u00a0Sadly this doesn\u2019t provide the same level of price, direct control\u00a0or flexibility as copper LLU services, which is technically difficult to achieve on fibre.<\/p>\n<p>At present LLU still dominates the market for standard broadband (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a>) services. But faster fibre-based solutions are slowly starting to grow and as a result <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> are beginning to get a little nervous about the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Dido Harding said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/10\/30\/talktalk_calls_on_pricing_regulation_for_superfast_broadband\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Register<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I&#8217;m not in any way &#8211; to be clear &#8211; criticising the regime as of today, but I think looking forward &#8211; whether it&#8217;s in three years&#8217;, five years&#8217; or 10 years&#8217; time &#8211; a large proportion of the country will take their phone broadband as a superfast product, and I don&#8217;t think that we should live in a world where that is an unregulated product provided by the admittedly very talented and lovely monopolist [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> boss Liv Garfield sitting] on my right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so I think the time is now right to start looking at exactly what that regulatory framework should be to make sure that it is very clear that both parties are getting a fair price<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> are already known to be pursuing alternatives (e.g. unbundling at the wavelength level on true fibre optic lines), which over the longer term could result in the development of a more competitive fibre market. But for the time being Harding warned that there was \u201c<em>simply &#8230; no alternative<\/em>\u201d to BT, especially at the infrastructure level.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it\u2019s easy to see why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> and other ISPs might be worried, with BT Retail typically picking up the lion\u2019s share of new superfast broadband subscribers via its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> products. Any advantage that an ISP can thus secure, in order to help differentiate itself from the dominant operator, would be welcomed; so far they don\u2019t have much choice except to follow BT\u2019s model.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand TalkTalk could perhaps put more effort into both advertising and revamping its own superfast broadband packages. For example, TalkTalk still only promotes its <strong>Superfast Fibre Broadband<\/strong> service as an optional upgrade (<em>Boost<\/em>) and that can cause confusion for new customers. A simpler package for new customers might help.<\/p>\n<p>Separately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a>\u2019s Fibre package does little to explain why you should pay more because they\u2019ve opted not to clearly promote the typical service speeds. This makes it harder for ordinary consumers to tell the difference and as a result many might simply end up choosing the cheaper standard broadband solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of budget ISP TalkTalk, Dido Harding, has warned a Westminster panel session that the UK government should \u201cstart to worry\u201d about the lack of competition in the new market for fibre optic based superfast broadband services; where a true alternative to BT and cheaper fibre-based local loop unbundling (LLU) remains absent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,471,472,52,55,36,38,74],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bduk","tag-business","tag-fibre-optic","tag-fttc","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-politics","tag-talktalk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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