{"id":2478,"date":"2013-01-17T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2013-01-18T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T08:16:15","slug":"video-geo-uk-says-its-impossible-to-take-on-bts-broadband-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/video-geo-uk-says-its-impossible-to-take-on-bts-broadband-dominance.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GEO UK Says it is Impossible to Take on BT\u2019s Broadband Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Smedley<\/strong>, the boss of dedicated fibre optic provider GEO Networks<\/a>, has warned in a new video interview<\/strong> that without better regulation from Ofcom<\/a> it will remain “almost impossible to take on BT<\/a><\/em>” in the United Kingdom’s broadband market; especially in terms of gaining economically viable access to the operators cable ducts and poles.<\/p>\n

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The interview stems from GEO’s “reluctant<\/em>” decision to exit the governments Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) framework during November 2011 (here<\/a>), which at the time was partly blamed on the “heavy restrictions<\/em>” that had been imposed upon BT<\/a>’s Passive Infrastructure Access<\/strong> (PIA) product.<\/p>\n

PIA was designed to save money by giving rival ISPs access to use BT’s existing cable ducts<\/strong> and telegraph poles<\/strong> to run their own fibre optic connections, which would be cheaper than building a new alternative broadband infrastructure. Unfortunately GEO found that the business case for PIA didn’t quite stack-up.<\/p>\n